The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has extended its full enforcement of Real ID-compliant driver’s licenses from Oct. 1, 2021 to 2023 due to the pandemic, DHS officials announced Tuesday.
The Real ID will be required for everyone age 18 and older who is passing through an airport security checkpoint prior to a domestic flight, according to the DHS.
DHS officials said all U.S. travelers will be required to have a Real ID by May 3, 2023, arguing that the COVID-19 pandemic has made it harder for states to issue driver’s licenses that are Real ID-compliant as many licensing agencies are still not operating at full capacity.
“Protecting the health, safety, and security of our communities is our top priority,” DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said. “As our country continues to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic, extending the Real ID full enforcement deadline will give states needed time to reopen their driver’s licensing operations and ensure their residents can obtain a REAL ID-compliant license or identification card.”
The Real ID is intended to streamline the requirements for driver’s licenses as identification, which are issued via state governments.
All 50 states, Washington, D.C., and four of the five U.S. territories are now issuing Real ID-compliant licenses, with American Samoa the only exception.
However, due to delays caused in part by the pandemic, just 43 percent of state-issued driver’s licenses and identification cards are currently Real ID-compliant.
https://www.dhs.gov/real-id/news/2019/10/01/dhs-reminds-travelers-deadline-real-id-compliance-one-year-away
Passports are also compliant
Yes, I would suspect passports being compliant. But I am angry probably because many DMV offices weren’t up to the task back in 2019 that they didn’t mention we could renew our drivers license way in advance. By the time they notified of the need to visit the DMV to renew my passport had expired. If I knew what I know now I could have gone in right before it expired and gotten the ReadID. I couldn’t locate my birth certificate either. Since the Concord office was newly remodeled the process of getting a driver’s license went smoothly without the need of an appointment. Of course the “pandemic” has made a mess of that.
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Did you double check dates on passport renewal? Expired is different than from date of issue by 5 years if I remember correctly. I had about six months to spare luckily and have new passport. Did take 5 months from when they cashed check but was during shutdown.
Since everyone is allowed in and out with Brainless Biden. Just end it!
wait barbara you wanted the pedophile weekend at bidens
you continually brandish biden policy and election fraud
but yes with biden allowing thousands of illegals in and flooding blue states with them this deadline will be pushed to make more time for illegals to get a license and illegaly vote yet again by mail from their home country as they take more money from actual american citizens
and yes barb there is legal immigration for those who actually want to be here with freedoms afforded to american citizens and loving the country as a whole
and not a feed bag smash and grab like dem politicians want
again why these questions when the answers are always the same
random task… What are you smokin’ today?
@Aunt Barbara….He’s been visiting the new advertisers on Claycord. 35% off your first order and delivery to CC county, hard to beat a deal like that.
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Real ID…this brainless idea is beyond stupid. What’s wrong with a Driver’s License? Follow the money. What Democrat or Democrat’s friend has this contract? I will use my passport. I’m not spending more $ on another needless form of ID.