US driver's license · both sides
Copy of a driver's license, front and back
US driver's licenses and state ID cards are made to the ID-1 size,1 85.60 × 53.98 mm (3.370 × 2.125 in).2 Photograph both sides and they land on one Letter page at that size.
- License size
- 85.60 × 53.98 mm
- Paper
- Letter, 8.5 × 11 in
- Both sides
- One page
- Files
- PDF · JPG
When you need one
Who asks, and what they need.
- Form DS-11A first US passport
A front and back photocopy; an in-state, fully valid license with photo is a primary ID.3 The rules.
- Form I-9A new job
List B, shown with a List C document.4 The employer may copy it, only for the I-9.5 A green card or passport card is List A.4
- Lease · bankA landlord or a lender
Send the PDF, marked with who it's for.
Mobile licenses
A digital license isn't enough for a passport.
The State Department wants a physical photo ID and its photocopy.3
Copy the plastic card, not a screenshot of the app.
A good copy
Three checks before you print.
Upright
Rotate or Flip if a side isn't.
The barcode whole
AAMVA licenses carry a PDF417 barcode.1 Keep it sharp.
100% on Letter
Not Fit to page.
Sources
- AAMVA 2025 AAMVA DL/ID Card Design Standard. Read 7 October 2026.
- ICAO Doc 9303, Machine Readable Travel Documents, Part 5: Specifications for TD1 Size MROTDs (8th edition, 2021). Read 7 October 2026.
- U.S. Department of State Photo ID Requirements (passports). Read 7 October 2026. Read through the Internet Archive's copy (copy of 7 July 2026; the live page asks visitors to prove they are human).
- USCIS Form I-9 Acceptable Documents. Read 7 October 2026.
- eCFR 8 CFR 274a.2, Verification of identity and employment authorization, (b)(3). Read 7 October 2026.
- U.S. Government Publishing Office 18 U.S.C. § 701, Official badges, identification cards, other insignia (U.S. Code, 2023 edition). Read 7 October 2026.
- eCFR 32 CFR Part 161, Identification (ID) Cards for Members of the Uniformed Services, § 161.6(b)(1). Read 7 October 2026.
Official pages only: the standards, the agencies and the printer makers themselves. Where a page didn't say something, neither do we.