Near Monroe: Danbury DMV to Close Wednesday

The Danbury Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) will operate on limited hours this Wednesday, December 17, to allow time for staff training. Below is further information from the Connecticut Department of Motor Vehicles.

Tuesday, December 16

The Department of Motor Vehicles Enfield Office, located at 4 Pearson Way, will be closed on Tuesday, December 16, from 7:45 a.m. to 1 p.m. due to staff training for the Drive Only License program. The office will open to the public at 1 p.m. and close at its regularly scheduled time of 4 p.m.

In addition, later this week, two other DMV branch offices will close for part of the day for staff training for the Drive Only License program:

Wednesday, December 17

• DMV’s Danbury Office, located at 2 Lee Mac Avenue, will be closed from 7:45 a.m. to 1 p.m. due to staff training. The office will open to the public at 1 p.m. and close at its regularly scheduled time of 4 p.m.

Thursday, December 18

• DMV’s Old Saybrook Office, located at 7 Custom Drive, will be closed from 9:15 a.m. to 2 p.m.due to staff training. The office will open to the public at 2 p.m. and close at its regularly scheduled time of 5:30 p.m.

Individuals must make a required appointment online only for the knowledge test in the first step for a Drive Only license. No walk-ins are allowed. Also, there is no cutoff for this program.

DMV urges these new applicants for a license to wait to make an online appointment until they have studied the driver’s manual and successfully passed practice tests on the DMV Mobile app (ct.gov/dmv/apps). Failing the knowledge test means a required one-week delay before being allowed to take the test again and possibly longer if available timeslots fill.

A full list of requirements to participate in the program can be found at ct.gov/driveonly

Last month, DMV announced that individual offices on different dates in the coming weeks will delay opening for a half-day for training about the program, which has a legislative start-up date of January 2, 2015.

This new program was approved by the legislature in 2013 for undocumented individuals who are 16 and older and cannot establish their legal presence in the United States. They can apply for a Drive Only license, however, it will not be valid for state or federal identification.

The first step to obtain this license begins with applying for a learner’s permit, which all new applicants for state driver licenses must hold for a minimum of three months (and longer for those 16 and 17 years old). A road skills test, the last step in the process, comes after the permit training time. The permit allows any new license applicant to practice driving with a licensed driver so that they can successfully pass the road skills test.

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