
For people whose license expired between March 18 and July 6, a 90-day extension is in effect. But if your license expired Tuesday, you’ll need a new one right away.
County clerks’ offices around the state are opening back up, but you can also renew your license by mail.
One big exception is Fayette County, where the clerk’s office is no longer taking care of driver’s licenses in person. Instead, a new transportation cabinet regional office in Lexington is handling those duties.
It’s one of four regional offices currently open.
Those offices, operated by the transportation cabinet, are the only place you can get one of the new REAL IDs. Those IDs act as a driver’s license, and in October of 2021 will meet the federal requirements for boarding an airplane and entering federal facilities.
The other regional offices are in Frankfort, Madisonville, and Morehead. There are four others that are currently closed because of the pandemic.
The state plans to move all driver’s license services to those offices by 2022.
State police say they have a backlog of approximately 3,300 applicants who had a road exam scheduled that was canceled due to COVID-19.
They hope to begin road exams again soon.