With the federal enforcement of REAL ID set to begin on May 7, appointments are now backed up and virtually unavailable all across the state. To accommodate the surge, the NJ Motor Vehicle Commission launched an initiative earlier this month called REAL ID Thursdays in order to create additional opportunities for drivers to upgrade their license to a REAL ID.
As of Thursday, March 20, NJMVC licensing centers will focus on the issuance of REAL IDs, adding nearly 4,500 new appointments for each…
Subscribe to keep reading
This story is from our archive. Get your SandPaper Annual Pass for access to our digital archive, plus everything else a pass includes. Details below.
Annual Pass — $18 Details
365-day access to:
- The complete SandPaper digital archive (stories date back to 2012).
- Full photo galleries from our photographers.
- The entire catalog of SandPaper games, puzzles and quizzes.
How it works
- Enter your email below and click to pay the one-time $18. Card details are entered on Stripe’s secure page.
- You’re in straight away — no password to create, and nothing to set up or manage.
- You stay signed in. If you’re ever signed out, or you read on a new phone or computer, we’ll email you a code to get you back in.
- Never auto-renews. Your pass is good for one year. We will email you when it expires so you can renew if you’d like.
See our site policies for more information.
Already a subscriber? We’ll email a code to get you back in.
