My Michigan driver’s license expires in 2026, and I don’t fly, so I didn’t see the need to rush to the Secretary of State office to switch to the new Real ID by the May 7, 2025, deadline…until I found out I was flying later this month. So, before I went digging through files to find the papers needed, I first went straight to my laptop.
I wasn’t logging on to renew because Michigan isn’t allowing online conversion to the Real ID, so I was logging on to make an appointment.
The Michigan Secretary of State is Appointment Only
I scheduled my appointment for 11:10 a.m. on Tuesday, thinking this would be a relatively slow time. It wasn’t.
The 11:10 group (I wasn’t the only one with an 11:10 appointment) was called up at 11:40…