Airports and the TSA are gearing up for the Real ID deadline. You should be, too

[Olde Hornet]

Get a passport if you dont have one if you live in one to the states below - You have until 01/22/18.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/flights/todayinthesky/2017/01/03/real-id-requirements/96113728/

Signs are sprouting up at many airports to alert travelers that beginning Jan. 22, 2018, the Transportation Security Administration will begin strict enforcement of the REAL ID requirements at airport security checkpoints.

As it does now, TSA will continue to accept alternate forms of ID at airports, such as a passport, military ID or permanent resident card. But next year, driver’s licenses and state-issued ID cards from the nine states that don’t yet have REAL ID-compliant driver’s licenses and IDs — Kentucky, Maine, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina and Washington — won’t be accepted

 

[chocalate_topaz]

This is a doggone shame.

 

[Olde Hornet]

I have a passport, but these states knew this was required, but they dont care.

 

[Olde Hornet]

Airports and the TSA are gearing up for the Real ID deadline. You should be, too

The Real ID Act set new and higher minimum security standards for driver’s licenses and identification cards that will be accepted at airports.

www.usatoday.com

Take a look at your driver’s license.

Go ahead, we’ll wait while you fish it out of your wallet.

If your driver’s license doesn’t have a star in the upper corner of the card, then your license is not Real ID compliant. And if you're planning to take a domestic commercial flight any time after Oct 1, 2020, you’ll need to take action, make some decisions or wait for your state to get its act together.

What’s Real ID?
The Real ID Act is legislation passed in 2005 (in response to the 9/11 terrorist attacks) that set new and higher minimum security standards for the driver’s licenses and identification cards that will be accepted at airports, other federally regulated facilities and nuclear power plants.

 

[Fiyah]

The Real ID deadline pushed back a year.

REAL ID delayed by at least one year in Senate stimulus bill

The deadline to obtain a REAL ID, federally mandated identification that will be needed for passengers to board aircraft, will be extended until at least September 2021 -- a year past the current deadline, according to a draft version of the Senate stimulus bill obtained by CNN.

www.cnn.com