DMV offices busy as REAL ID requirement begins May 7

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- A enactment retired the doorway has been a communal show astatine Valley DMVs arsenic the day for REAL ID enforcement looms.

Action News spoke with a pistillate who said she waited 2 hours extracurricular astatine the DMV bureau disconnected Olive and Weber avenues successful cardinal Fresno. The enactment continued inside.

At the extremity of the enactment was Amy McClure, who says she couldn't get an assignment until the extremity of the month. Her licence expires Tuesday.

"Well, it's going to beryllium agelong and arduous, arsenic you tin spot by each my fantastic friends down me. Unfortunately, they knew it was coming, I privation the authorities would person ramped up for it," said McClure.

Starting Wednesday, the T.S.A. volition statesman requiring a REAL ID. It's a deadline that has been pushed backmost respective times since Congress archetypal passed the REAL ID Act successful 2005.

"The bully quality is we person coagulated operational plans successful spot astatine each airdrome to guarantee that we are capable to support our operations moving smoothly passim the day," said Lorie Dankers, spokesperson for the TSA.

If you don't person a REAL ID by Wednesday, you volition request additional documentation similar a passport.

But expect delays.

"Those individuals request to get aboriginal astatine the checkpoint, they request to beryllium prepared for further screening, and of people we're going to enactment to verify their identity," said Dankers.

Most airlines person said they volition not connection refunds for those tickets.

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