The new flying ID restrictions are here, and they’re a mess

At agelong last, the deadline to get a REAL ID is here. On May 7th, aft astir 2 years of kicking the tin down the road, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) volition yet necessitate travelers to person REAL IDs - oregon different compliant forms of recognition (more connected that later) - to committee home flights successful the US. It's harmless to accidental that nary 1 is acceptable for it. The TSA is bracing for chaos astatine airports, and DMV offices crossed the state are reporting lines retired the door.

As of mid-April, 81 percent of radical traveling done TSA checkpoints had REAL IDs oregon different forms of compliant identification, according to the agency. For the astir 1 successful 5 passengers who don't, however, the enforcement of the May 7th deadline whitethorn travel arsenic a shock. The REAL ID Act passed successful 2005 arsenic portion of the fervor implicit nationalist information that swept the state successful the aftermath of the September 11th attacks, and was expected to beryllium afloat implemented by 2008. Seventeen years and galore delays later, the deadline is yet here.

"People volition acquisition question delays," Patricia Mancha, a TSA spokesperson, told CBS News successful April. "People person had years to truly program for this, truthful TSA volition simply enforce th …

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