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The Freely Associated States are the Federated States of Micronesia, the Republic of the Marshall Islands and the Republic of Palau. Those eligible for the exemption must reside in the U.S., have a valid, unexpired passport issued by an FAS and a Form I-94 or I-94A.<\/p>\n
In 2024, Hawaii applied for a limited exemption from CDL rules concerning acceptable proof of citizenship or lawful permanent residency for citizens of FAS who now reside in Hawaii and wish to obtain a CDL.<\/p>\n
The five-year exemption permits states to issue non-domiciled CDLs to citizens of FAS. However, the agency denied Hawaii\u2019s request to issue standard CDLs and commercial learner\u2019s permits to FAS citizens.<\/p>\n
\u201cFMCSA believes that granting this exemption is consistent with Congressional intent to allow FAS citizens to live and work in the United States as lawful non-immigrants,\u201d the agency wrote in the notice that is scheduled to be published in the Federal Register on Thursday, May 14<\/a>. \u201cThe agency has no data indicating that granting the exemption would negatively impact safety. FMCSA also believes that it would be inconsistent with the agency\u2019s non-domiciled CDL rule to allow State Driver\u2019s Licensing Agencies to issue standard commercial learner\u2019s permits and CDLs to individuals who are not domiciled in the United States.\u201d<\/p>\n This past March, FMCSA implemented a final rule to clean up the non-domiciled CDL system<\/a> and ensure that only legal, safe and vetted individuals were issued licenses to operate commercial motor vehicles. FAS citizens were not included in the rule\u2019s eligible categories, but their status could be addressed through FMCSA\u2019s exemption process.<\/p>\n FMCSA\u2019s recent exemption supersedes an exemption previously granted to the Oregon Department of Transportation<\/a> that allowed the state to issue standard, rather than non-domiciled CDLs, to FAS citizens. LL<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration approved an exemption request that allows all State Driver\u2019s Licensing Agencies to issue non-domiciled CDLs to citizens of Freely Associated States who meet certain standards. The Freely Associated States are the Federated States of Micronesia, the Republic of the Marshall Islands and the Republic of Palau. Those eligible for … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30924,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Non-domiciled-CDL-exemption-approved-for-citizens-of-Freely-Associated-States.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30923"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30923\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30925,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30923\/revisions\/30925"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/30924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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