Real ID Compliance Date Pushed Back Two Years
By Conway Crew
December 6, 2022
Once again, the Department of Homeland Security has pushed back the compliance deadline for Real ID licenses and identification cards.
- Under the previous deadline, a Real ID-complaint license would have been required to board a plane starting May 3rd of 2023. But that deadline has now been pushed to 2025, citing pandemic-related delays.
- The Real ID program has been delayed multiple times - the bill was originally passed in all the way back in 2005 with an original deadline of May 11th, 2008.
- Roughly one-third of Americans do not currently have a Real ID-compliant license.
#BREAKING Department of Homeland Security delays REAL ID deadline to 2025 https://t.co/9PJHIuyie1
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