Reader question:

What are the requirements for Oregon SR22 filing?

Juanita

Thank you for asking, Juanita.

Oregon SR22 filing is required whenever you are convicted for drunk driving or for driving without car insurance or financial responsibility. You will be required to do SR22 filing with your car insurance company for three years and thirty three days after the initial requirement is mandated on you, or for a total period of thirty seven months. Here are some other reasons that you might have to do Oregon Sr22 filing on your car insurance:

• You were driving while uninsured and got into a car accident.
• You were caught driving without car insurance coverage that is required by state law.
• The department of motor vehicles requested that you provide them with proof that you have auto insurance liability coverage, and you could not do so.
• You are trying to get a hardship driver’s permit.
• After you get your license back after you have been convicted of a DUI.

If any of these reason requires you do to SR22 filing for proof of insurance, the SR-22 form is the only kind of proof that is accepted, and it has to come straight from your car insurance company. You are not able to simply provide your car insurance card as proof of coverage.

Once you are required to get SR-22 filing on your car insurance, you have a month to get this special type of coverage. That does not mean that you can go a month without car insurance coverage period, only that until you are able to file the SR-22 form you should avoid driving.

Cheers,

Fashun Guadarrama.