Stockton among selected DMV field offices to be reopened
The California Department of Motor Vehicles will reopen 25 select field offices across the state on Friday, May 8, to assist customers with appointments and with transactions that require an in-person visit to a field office during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Stockton field office at 55 S. Lincoln St. is among those scheduled to reopen and continue operating from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday. The DMV continues to encourage customers to use online services, its expanded virtual services and other service channels to complete transactions, including driver license and vehicle registration renewals.
The DMV is reopening select offices based on location, size, service capacity and the ability to offer enhanced service to commercial driver license customers.
Along with Stockton are Arleta, Bakersfield, Carmichael, Concord, Fontana, Fresno, Fullerton, Glendale, Inglewood, Lancaster, Los Angeles, Modesto, Montebello, Oakland Claremont,
Palm Desert, Redding, Salinas, San Diego Normal, San Francisco, San Jose DLPC, San Marcos, Santa Ana, Santa Rosa and Yuba City. Lodi is not on the list. The following services
Employees will maintain physical distancing while serving customers with existing appointments and Californians in need of selected transactions that can only be completed in a DMV field office, including:
• Paying registration for a vehicle impounded because of registration-related issues
• Reinstating a suspended or revoked driver license
• Applying for a reducedfee or no-fee identification card
• Processing commercial driver license transactions
• Applying for a disabled person parking placards
• Adding an ambulance certificate or firefighter endorsement to a driver license
• Verifying a transit training document to drive a transit bus.
• Processing DMV Express customers for REAL ID transactions, if time and space allows
Employees in the remainder of DMV’s 170 public offices will provide services through the Virtual Field Office at https://virtual.dmv.ca.gov/. The DMV plans to open these offices in phases during the coming weeks. More information on office openings will be provided on the DMV website.
Californians who do not have an urgent need to go to a DMV field office should delay their visit. Customers can use the Service Advisor at https://www.dmv.ca .gov/portal/dmv/detail/por tal/foa/servicesadvisor to learn their options to complete DMV tasks.