Although the DMV keeps promising that its continuing delay in issuing new driver’s licenses is getting shorter, it’s latest actions aren’t reassuring.

This week, the DMV set up an information web page for Californians who haven’t received their new or renewed license even though its been weeks since they applied.

“Customers will automatically receive a 90-day temporary licenses on all new and renewal applications. Law enforcement and airline security will accept expired licenses with a temporary extension,” the page says.

It says if it’s been more than eight weeks since you applied for your license, “there may be a problem with your card” and asks that you email the DMV help desk or call them.

The page says the DMV has mailed licenses processed through Feb. 17.

To go to the new DMV page, CLICK HERE.

The delay results from the DMV’s redesign last fall of the licenses with sophisticated anti-counterfeiting features that make them probably the most complex in the nation.

Those features include the driver’s date of birth and signature in raised lettering that can be felt by touch, a photo of the driver that can be seen only with ultraviolet light, a bar code on the back of the license that replicates and verifies the information on the front of the card (similar to the current magnetic strip) and a laser perforation outline of the California brown bear that can be seen on the license only when a flashlight is pressed against the back of the license. The changes also raised the cost of producing each license to $1.31 from the old version’s 64 cents, according to the Los Angeles Times.

The company making the new licenses, L-1 Identity Solutions, has trouble making the licenses, and the DMV won’t accept them unless they’re absolutely perfect.

DMV spokesman Steve Haskins calls the license problem “a very fluid situation” and the DMV backlog on average is six weeks.

To read an earlier Road Warrior story on the delays, CLICK HERE.