Fair warning – REAL ID starts tomorrow

I received this reminder at work from DHS today.

The 2005 law (yes, this was passed by Congress in 2005) will finally be implemented tomorrow, Wednesday May 7. You will need a federally-authorized form of identification to air travel domestically and enter federal properties such as courthouses, passport agencies, etc. A standard issued state drivers license is no longer acceptable. If you have an enhanced DL or a passport, those are accepted, amongst others.

Homeland Security has stated that for now, if you show up for a domestic flight without a REAL ID, you will still be allowed on a flight, but you will be subject to additional questioning and enter through a more rigorous line of security. So expect that to take longer.

REAL IDs are available at most state DMV centers.

I’m really tired of hearing about THE DEADLINE. If I’m not getting on an airplane until next March, I don’t need real ID now. I don’t care about THE DEADLINE unless I need the thing, and I’ll apply for it then.

SR

Steve Root wrote:

I’m really tired of hearing about THE DEADLINE. If I’m not getting on an airplane until next March, I don’t need real ID now. I don’t care about THE DEADLINE unless I need the thing, and I’ll apply for it then.

SR

Steve Root wrote:

I’m really tired of hearing about THE DEADLINE. If I’m not getting on an airplane until next March, I don’t need real ID now. I don’t care about THE DEADLINE unless I need the thing, and I’ll apply for it then.

SR

I feel the same.

If I can’t enter a courthouse without a real ID does that excuse me from jury duty?

Until something expected comes up and you have to fly and can’t.

It took me like 10 minutes to fill out the ppwk and my appt was 5 minutes long.

I don’t understand why Minnesota is the worst state for adoption of realized.

I’ve had an enhanced since they came out all of 10 years ago?

Not hard to get (as long as you’re not an illegal immigrant)…

We fly pretty regularly and have the upgraded IDs and passports. The deadline should have had a hard cutoff with no alternatives long ago.

buckybadger wrote:

We fly pretty regularly and have the upgraded IDs and passports. The deadline should have had a hard cutoff with no alternatives long ago.

Why ? If they really want people to get it, they’d say no alcohol sales without it.

So my fakeID is no longer acceptable?

Steve Root wrote:

I’m really tired of hearing about THE DEADLINE. If I’m not getting on an airplane until next March, I don’t need real ID now. I don’t care about THE DEADLINE unless I need the thing, and I’ll apply for it then.

SR

Apparently the wait time is VERY long to get one so just plan ahead and you should be fine.
IDK they even allow the “regular” license. They have known about this since 2005 no reason to even have those available anymore.

When I got my passport last time I paid the 10.00 extra for the passport ID card. It’s a far better value and it trumps the real ID. I’ll just get it each time I renew my passport. Also works for land entry into Canada and Mexico

fishthumper wrote:

each time I renew my passport. Also works for land

I did the same, works great. I had to renew my drivers license in January and got the RealID version at that time. Not a big deal.

Bearcat89 wrote:

<div class=”d4p-bbt-quote-title”>buckybadger wrote:</div>
We fly pretty regularly and have the upgraded IDs and passports. The deadline should have had a hard cutoff with no alternatives long ago.

Why ? If they really want people to get it, they’d say no alcohol sales without it.

…so people didn’t have to hear about it for 2 full decades later

If you’re going to do something – do it. The Real ID requirement has been similar to my wife’s “I’m going to count to 3” with my kids where she never has actually made it to 3, and everyone in the world including my kids knows it.

You can fill out the paperwork online at home. Let them know when you show up to renew that you have it filled out online. They take your picture and money and you are on your way. Received in less than 30 days. Took less than 3 minutes at the DMV.

Matt Moen wrote:

Until something expected comes up and you have to fly

The only airline I use is called “Dodge Ram” and I’m the pilot

Seriously, laughed out loud this morning on the way to work. The deadline is today but…..
The government makes a terrible parent.
Create it, tell people they need it by date X, when date X arrives if they don’t have it, sucks to be them.
Good lord it is NOT difficult.
AND, it is not difficult to get – take care of it in a few minutes. You are already getting your license renewed so why not?

and there will many Idiots at the airport today trying to get through security without proper ID slowing the lines for people with proper ID.

Whats the full point of the real id. Harder to fake ? Does my passport trump the real id if needed. I don’t watch or listen to the news so I haven’t heard anything about the id.

Passport trumps the RealID. What is the point of RealID? No idea. If you have an enhanced drivers license that would trump the realID too.

Bearcat89 wrote:

Whats the full point of the real id. Harder to fake ? Does my passport trump the real id if needed. I don’t watch or listen to the news so I haven’t heard anything about the id.

Its mostly a security thing. The REAL ID requires an added layer of citizen confirmation to receive at the DMV. You will need more forms of identification to acquire it, just like a passport.

If you aren’t going on a flight or into a federal property anytime in the near future, no biggie. But what I wouldn’t do is wait until a week before spring break to try and get it because then you will run into long wait times. Right now there is a long wait time for one.

Also, B-man is correct. The REAL ID also cracks down on illegal immigrants and criminals trying to get on planes and into federal properties. Its been on the books since 2005 but the deadline has been pushed back because some states just haven’t come into compliance (and MN is one of them).

I [we] have the passport as well as the passport card. We fly inside the US just fine with the card. If we need to fly outside of the US, we simply take our passport. We flew to Alaska on the card last year and can do so again if we choose to.

I know what is needed to renew our passport/card every ten years. What is needed to renew the new id card every 4?

Bearcat89 wrote:

Whats the full point of the real id. Harder to fake ? Does my passport trump the real id if needed. I don’t watch or listen to the news so I haven’t heard anything about the id.

Need to provide more documentation for Real ID than for a regular drivers license. It was some 9/11 commission recommendation. You can use a passport instead but they cost more for people who aren’t traveling internationally.

I don’t understand why anyone would have renewed their license in the last several years without doing the real ID. It took me like 5 min of prep time to get the paperwork and documentation done and the time at the DMV was no more than 5 min. Pretty painless but people deferring it and keep on kicking the can down the road. I guess if you don’t do much traveling or prefer using a passport when you travel, its fine. But I dont want to be hauling my passport around the country if I don’t have to.

Stanley wrote:

If I can’t enter a courthouse without a real ID does that excuse me from jury duty?

IF i understand it correctly its just FEDERAL buildings….county courthouses i believe you are fine.

i havent got a passport or real ID yet….i see no reason to. i’m looking into maybe the real ID when i renew my DL!!!!!

just curious…….WHAT do you all need for real ID????

and i heard on the news last night…….its alot of trouble for just a star on your DL????

Steve Root wrote:

I’m really tired of hearing about THE DEADLINE. If I’m not getting on an airplane until next March, I don’t need real ID now. I don’t care about THE DEADLINE unless I need the thing, and I’ll apply for it then.

SR

That is one way to do it. But there has of course been a big rush to the DMV’s and lines are long. ALSO- the state is just now processing application from the week of March 10th 2025. So the lead time to have the actual license is months at this point in time. And paper copies are not supposed to be allowed, however DHS is being accomodating at this time as the original post has indicated.

glenn57 wrote:

just curious…….WHAT do you all need for real ID????

Check this out

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1. dvs-real-id-document-requirements.pdf

thanks reef!!!!!!

Deadline? What deadline?

Morning news just did a segment from the airport. People without the real ID are being let through security. They are handing out info cards to those travelers.

-J.

Also, I would like to say, when you go to the DMV and have waited this long and you find out you may not have your ID in time for your trip…IT IS NOT THE DMV WORKERS FAULT!! IT IS YOURS! You had a decade to get it done. Be nice to the people trying to help you.