New York’s bill expanded the forms of identification that could be used to apply for a driver’s license, which now include a valid foreign driver’s license, a passport or identification from an applicant’s home country and a foreign birth certificate. A spokeswoman for the state Department of Motor Vehicles said its offices were seeing larger crowds on Monday, as officials had anticipated. At one branch in the Bronx, workers went outside around 12:30 p.m. to inform people in line that the office’s testing room was full. By that point, Roldan Martinez, 33, who said he was applying for a license for the first time, had waited in line for an hour. “We don’t care about the cold,” said Nancy Hernandez, 33, who works at a restaurant in Manhattan.

Source: New York Times December 16, 2019 18:53 UTC