What Address to Use on Your ID or License?

Decide with your caseworker about what address to list on your Texas Driver License or Identification Card application form. Your caseworker should list on the DFPS Form 2042 Foster Care Residency Verification a mailing address, which is their name and office address, and a current address, which is your placement address.

• If you are in a placement that is intended to be permanent, such as with a relative or a foster home you have lived in for several years, you can use your current address as the mailing address on the application form.

• If you have been moved a lot or plan to move, you should use the mailing address of your caseworker because every time you move you will have to tell the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) and get a new ID card with your new address. But if youth in foster care use the address of a caseworker, they do not have to update it while they are in foster care. However, they must update their address with DPS when they leave foster care.

• Visit the Texas x Texas website to update your address or replace your ID card or driver’s license online. To do these things online you will need a credit or debit card. DPS will charge you $11 to change the address on your ID or license and send you a replacement card. It costs more to do it online if you don’t know your audit number, which is the long number at the very bottom of your ID or license (see picture below). Having a copy or photo of the front and back of your ID or license can be very helpful.