I haven't gone to the DMV for any item that took only one trip. I've never been turned away for not having the required paperwork. My prior experiences were so awful, I now print out the requirement list, number it, and then attach post-it notes to every bit of supporting documentation.

The DMV near me even issued a valid (but incorrect) title, after three days of standing in line (every day when they close, you lose your place and have to try again). They called me up frantically two weeks afterwards asking if I had sold the car yet. Good thing I didn't, as it would have been fraud. Don't know what that problem was, but the lady seemed genuinely relieved when I handed in the old title for a new one, and that was the fastest I had ever been seen (only 10 minutes after my appointment, as the literally sat down the person that was getting served without fixing their issue when they knew I was there).

My daughter's learner permit took 12 different pieces of documentation. They tried to indicate that she couldn't prove she lived in the state. That's after a passport, a State issued ID (not a drivers license, but basically the same kind of card that doesn't permit driving, issued by the DMV), a school transcript, a letter from the school indicating she was a student in good standing, our car insurance, bills from my home, and everything else that we brought up there had the same address, which I had been living at for 20 years, in the state. To counter their stupidity, you can't use reason (experience speaking here) so I started playing too dumb to assist, but too helpful to send away, and kept showing them stuff on my phone to prove my residence, till 45 minutes later the lady lost patience and then suddenly all of my paperwork was complete (it was complete before, but she didn't recognize it for some reason).