Around 150,000 New Yorkers could lose their driver’s licenses, due to a COVID technicality, according to the state’s Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV). At the peak of the pandemic, anyone whose license expired between March 2020 and August 2021 was allowed to defer vision tests and self-certify online. Now, the DMV is alerting residents that those same people are required to pass vision tests in the near future or “risk imminent suspension.” If you fall into that category, you can take a vision test from an approved provider or fill out a DMV Vision Test Report, which can be found at: https://dmv.ny.gov/forms/mv619.pdf.
“If you pass a vision test by an approved provider, you do not have to send the vision test results, the provider will enter [them] for you,” noted the DMV. If the provider is not approved by DMV’s Vision Registry, they must complete a Vision Test Report (MV-619) and you must submit it to the DMV. Approved providers can be found here: https://dmv.ny.gov/vision-registry-locator.
Source: Hudson Valley Post
