To make sure they reserved two of the 60 daily spots for the driving permit test at the Goshen DMV, Wualberto Aguelar and Dora Reyes arrived early.

"We got here at 4 in the morning," Aguelar said, smiling, during a break from reading the DMV study guides in the couple's car. "We've been waiting for hours, but it's fine."

They wish they could have applied at their local DMV in Newburgh, since officials from the county clerk's office said DMVs in Newburgh, Middletown and Port Jervis would soon have the ability to process applications for Green Light licenses, now available to undocumented immigrants under state law.

"We came here from Newburgh," Reyes said in Spanish. "We thought it would be better [to apply] at the DMV there."

Currently, the Goshen DMV is the only place in Orange County where applications under the Green Light Law can be processed. It has caused long lines and early morning rushes to get to the DMV in time to get a ticket, which reserves one of those 60 spots for the permit test.

Local immigrant activists have grown frustrated.

Ignacio Acevedo, an organizer with the advocacy group, "The Best Immigrant Footprints," told Spectrum News that when the Green Light Law went into effect on December 16, he was more understanding of the long waits and the confusion.

"But now, two months later, I'm coming to question it," he said during an interview in his office on Monday. "Is there a plan? What's the plan? Can you share it with the rest of us? You know, give me a date?"

Orange County Clerk Annie Rabbitt told Spectrum News that she is not getting nearly enough financial assistance and guidance from state administrators to handle Green Light applicants and the influx of people applying for the New York State "Real ID."

One issue is the lack of space at DMVs in Middletown, Newburgh, and Port Jervis to accomodate an influx.

Rabbitt could not be absolute in her answer when asked when those locations might be able to process Green Light applications, as she said her staff reassesses the situation every week and are dealing with constant changes.

"These are the conditions we are under, and it's going to be the new normal," Rabbitt said when reached by phone on Monday afternoon. "This is the way it's going to be for a while."

Staff at the Goshen DMV have been scrambled to administer the 60 daily driver's permit tests each day between 9 a.m. and 3 p.m., according to Rabbitt.

She said if her office were to begin accepting Green Light applications at one of the smaller DMVs, those locations would probably only be able to do four to six permit tests a day.