JALSA in The Boston Globe on the Work and Family Mobility Act

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Excerpt from With higher demand for driver’s licenses as undocumented immigrants are now eligible, long wait times for some

At first, the RMV was providing confirmation emails for appointments only in English, but has since updated the emails to provide links to translations, Rótolo said.

And the template for the translation certification did not specify that the translator’s letterhead was required. Now, it does, said Julia Schlozman, staff attorney at the Jewish Alliance for Law and Social Action, a nonprofit that advocated for the new law.

The hiccups caused a lot of confusion, said Lucy Pineda, director of Latinos Unidos MA, forcing applicants to come back to the RMV a different day.

“People are losing a day of work,” Pineda said in Spanish.

Ogilvie said RMV staff have been meeting weekly with advocates to work out the kinks.

“I have every expectation that Massachusetts, like all of the other states that allow people regardless of immigration status to get licenses, will be able to handle this, that things are gonna work themselves out,” said Schlozman.