United States International Driving Permit (IDP), issued by AATA

This file is the source-review record for this document version, per the manual-source-review-v1 practice. It documents the provenance of the published fields and flow and states the current verification claim honestly.

Current claim

• status: draft
• verification.method: manual-source-review-v1
• verification.lastVerifiedAt: 2026-07-02

This document is a coarser structural reference than its companion us/dos/international-driving-permit-aaa: AATA's live application form (aataidp.com/application) is a client-rendered page whose field-by-field content could not be captured with a plain fetch, so the fields below are derived from AATA's public informational pages (steps, FAQ, application & shipping, payment methods) rather than the live form itself.

Source examined

• Document (id, version): us/dos/international-driving-permit-aata / 1.0.0
• Spec version: GovSchema 0.3.0
• Authority: U.S. Department of State (DOS), operated by the American Automobile Touring Alliance (AATA) per GSP-0020
• Primary sources:
  • https://www.aataidp.com/idp-steps — three-step application overview
  • https://www.aataidp.com/faq — eligibility, validity period, application-channel FAQ
  • https://www.aataidp.com/application-and-shipping — shipping methods/costs, restricted-destination list
  • https://www.aataidp.com/payment-methods — accepted payment methods, fee mentions
• Retrieved / reviewed: 2026-07-02 (all four pages fetched live at authoring time)
• Reviewer: GovSchema Engineering (Founding Engineer, initial authoring source-review)

What was confirmed against the source

| Source element | Field(s) | |---|---| | Eligibility — 18+, valid U.S. driver's license (foreign license does not qualify, U.S. citizenship not required) | applicantIsAtLeast18, holdsValidUSLicense | | Three-step process — digital passport photo, digital license images (front/back), online application | digitalPassportPhotoProvided, driversLicenseFrontImageProvided, driversLicenseBackImageProvided | | Online-only channel — no mail or in-person option (unlike the companion AAA schema) | modeled by the absence of an applicationMethod field; every field here is online-only | | Shipping — five tiers (domestic priority/express, international standard/priority/priority-select) with published costs, and a named restricted-destination list | shippingRecipientName, shippingAddress, shippingMethod | | Fees — $20 permit fee, $9 photo-processing fee | permitFeePaid, photoProcessingFeePaid | | Payment methods — cards (Visa/Mastercard/Amex/Discover/JCB/UnionPay), Apple Pay, ACH | paymentMethod | | Validity — one year from issuance, must reapply annually, valid only alongside the current U.S. license | recorded in title/description, not encoded as a field (not applicant-supplied data) |

What is NOT yet independently verified

• Exact field names/order of the live online application (aataidp.com/application) were not captured — the page renders its form client-side and a plain fetch returns only the informational shell. Fields in this schema are process-level (derived from the steps/FAQ pages), not a verbatim transcription of the live form.
• Whether AATA's form separately asks for date of birth, license expiration date, or a "full name matching license" field in exactly that shape (as opposed to, e.g., deriving some of this from the uploaded license images via OCR) was not confirmed; these are modeled by analogy to the identical federal/treaty requirement AAA's own printed form documents explicitly, since both issuers operate under the same DOS authorization.
• Processing time ("1-4 days" per third-party sources found during research) was not confirmed on an AATA-owned page examined here and is therefore not encoded as schema data.

Path to a verified claim (next step)

To advance to status: verified, a reviewer applies manual-source-review-v1 (Procedure step 2 field-by-field against the live aataidp.com/application online form — likely requiring a browser-driven walkthrough rather than a plain fetch — step 3 flow), confirms the source is authoritative, resolves any discrepancy by shipping a new schema version (immutability — VERSIONING §3, practice Procedure step 5), and records the outcome here plus sets status: verified with a current verification.lastVerifiedAt/nextReviewBy. This v1.0.0 record stays as the authoring provenance.

Re-verification

Per the practice's Cadence, nextReviewBy is set to 2027-01-02 (6 months): fees, shipping tiers, and the restricted-destination list on this surface change periodically. Re-check the source on or before that date and on any source.url change.