In and out of springfield DMV in 7 minutes

Husband needs to renew DL before end of month. Any suggestions for best time to go to Springfield DMV? He just left there when he saw 30-35 people waiting on line outside just to get in!

Thank you

cubby said:
Husband needs to renew DL before end of month. Any suggestions for best time to go to Springfield DMV? He just left there when he saw 30-35 people waiting on line outside just to get in!


Thank you

I know two different people had to go to DMV in the last month. One took about two hours. The other was inside with a number waiting and then they closed for the day and she had to return the next day to try again.

My advice would be to show up early and plan on being there for quite awhile.

This!

spontaneous said:

My advice would be to show up early and plan on being there for quite awhile.

It took me three attempts to renew my license last month. And I was proactive about going early in the month as I always heard horror stories about going there on the very last day of the month. First time, during the week, went there for late hours Tuesday, was told I definitely won't be seen. Came back on Saturday around 11:30 AM, was alerted by a cop that a spot I just pulled into, was a permit spot. I circled around and re-parked on the street and walked over to DMV. Got a number, a 5 that was crossed-out in red, which meant I may not be seen that day. Fair warning but I decided to wait. There were less than 10 people ahead of me when the clock stroke 1 PM and they kicked everybody out. Third time, also Saturday. I was there at 7:45 AM (they open at 8 AM). There was already a good line (some people came before 7 AM from what I heard). Additionally it took FOREVER (2 to 5 minutes per person due to the weird buttons and delay in credit card processing) to pay for parking so while waiting to pay, I anxiously observed the growing line on the sidewalk. While waiting outside, a thunderstorm broke out with a heavy rain, ran back to the car to get umbrella ... I got inside the DMV at 9 AM and walked out around 10:30 AM with my new license.

The most ironic of it all is the poster that hangs in the entrance advertising the benefits of renewing your license by MAIL! Well I would if it was only possible. It seems that everybody needs to re-take their photo this year hence the return to the old days of DMV.

Yes, go there early, really early and observe the parking signs!

Summer may tend to be bad for drivers license/registration, possibly since it's a popular time to move to NJ.

I am wondering if perhaps many more people need to get photos done this year...Perhaps there's something to that.

In the past you had to retake your picture every time you renewed. Then they changed to the digital licenses and you could reuse the picture up to ten years. This change was done approximately ten years ago so you will have a wave of people who have been reusing their old pics and now need to get a new one.

I've held onto my old picture, not out of convenience, but because it actually looks really good and I knew I would never get a DMV picture that looked that awesome again in my life.

A lot of the extra ID requirements are from federal laws, so that partly explains why things take more effort than before.

I live in New York State now and have been to two DMV offices. They have a computerized system for managing the various lines. It looks good, and it should work, but the waits are inexplicably long. I think it's worse than New Jersey here.

I went in there once to drop off plates and it was literally like, "here you go, later.

Robert_Casotto said:
I went in there once to drop off plates and it was literally like, "here you go, later.

Oh man, I hope that's the case when I return my plates. I've sort of been dreading it.

Suzie2 said:
In my experience, that's not rare there, providing you go at the beginning of the month.

Actually, right about now is best. The very beginning of the month has more people; those who procrastinated so badly that they missed the end of the month deadline.

Plates are easy, you go to the inquiry desk at the entrance and hand over the plates and they hand you a receipt. You don't have to wait in line for that.

Bend your plates in half before you return them. My father returned plates at Springfield in the 80s and they were re-issued to guy with a '69 camaro that liked to get parking tickets, and not pay them, all over seacaucus and jc. Took forever to sort it out.

For what it's worth, the line outside the DMV may not be indicative of much. Daughter was there yesterday, and despite numerous available seats inside they had to wait outside under police control. Apparently, there's a 64 person "maximum occupancy" inside (per sign) that is being enforced. She spent 20 minutes in outside line. Entertainment value added by person ranting that Christie clearly can't be President if this is DMV situation!

Yeah the line is a bad indicator of how fast or slow things are going inside. They open the doors at exactly the time stated on their official hours sign, then take a good 15 minutes to start up the computers and chit-chat (about a week ago Denice was having issues with her man trying to say that she was at Junior's house when Terrance was there robbing it. Her lawyer told her all she needed was a signed "apla-davis" saying she was out with the girls. Also Terrance is mad buns.) while you essentially stand there waiting.

There are 2 speeds, slow and stop. Also rules are made up as they go along

Hi I'd like to title this right hand drive japanese domestic market Honda Integra. I don't have a vin number or a US title. Oh I have to go to trenton?

I go to bagels for u . Come back an hour later, out with a stack of paperwork I need to get a title.

Same with my drivers license. Moved to NJ from TX was told at Springfield that i'd need to take the road test. Had a lunch at campus 2, cameback, new idiot at the desk, walked out with a license in 2 hours.

DMV is much the same the world over, I think. We had a nightmare recently when my husband needed to get his NJ license transferred to CT with only a month to go before expiration. He had lost his passport, and we realized his birth certificate had a typo on it, so his names didn't match across all his documents. The little idiot at the front desk told us we would have to go to Social Security to get them to change his name there (which was ridiculous, but we started there because she told us to) and that he would have to go through the process and expense of a legal name change in probate court.

When we returned after jumping through all manner of legal hoops, the woman who issued the new license for him said all the crap we had been put through was unnecessary. They would simply have issued the new license in the same name that was on his birth certificate.

I wish with all my heart now that we had asked to talk to the supervisor of the woman who gave us the initial misinformation, but my husband bowed to her mandate and made us leave and start all the legal rigmarole. But at least all his documents now match, although we still have to go through one last round to get his birth certificate corrected. In Brooklyn, NY. Ugh.

PeggyC, the five boroughs have been one city for over a hundred years now. I bet he can go to the Bronx to get his birth certificate.

Freeway said:

There are 2 speeds, slow and stop. Also rules are made up as they go along


Hi I'd like to title this right hand drive japanese domestic market Honda Integra. I don't have a vin number or a US title. Oh I have to go to trenton?
I go to bagels for u . Come back an hour later, out with a stack of paperwork I need to get a title.
Same with my drivers license. Moved to NJ from TX was told at Springfield that i'd need to take the road test. Had a lunch at campus 2, cameback, new idiot at the desk, walked out with a license in 2 hours.

I remember trying to change my name but not being allowed to because the form I had said Certificate of Marriage and they only accepted Marriage Certificates, not Certificates of Marriage.

Tom_Reingold said:
PeggyC, the five boroughs have been one city for over a hundred years now. I bet he can go to the Bronx to get his birth certificate.

Is that an improvement? Since I've never dealt with City Hall there, I have no idea.

spontaneous said:

Freeway said:

There are 2 speeds, slow and stop. Also rules are made up as they go along


Hi I'd like to title this right hand drive japanese domestic market Honda Integra. I don't have a vin number or a US title. Oh I have to go to trenton?
I go to bagels for u . Come back an hour later, out with a stack of paperwork I need to get a title.
Same with my drivers license. Moved to NJ from TX was told at Springfield that i'd need to take the road test. Had a lunch at campus 2, cameback, new idiot at the desk, walked out with a license in 2 hours.

I remember trying to change my name but not being allowed to because the form I had said Certificate of Marriage and they only accepted Marriage Certificates, not Certificates of Marriage. ">

I'm a nationally certified pharmacy tech and I have registrations in several states including NJ (its for consulting I do for big pharmacy retailers from time to time apparently the place will burn down if you walk behind the counter without one). The dmv will sometimes take my nj state issued pharmacy registration as one of the six points (and sometimes for more than its actually worth) and other times "thats not good here! Thats like a cosmetician license it don't mean nothing!!"

I think alot of it has to do with how close they are to leaving / eating / getting paid. They are *****s just to be *****s.