San Francisco – San Francisco (AP) – Real id The requirements for those who fly within the United States begin on Wednesday after almost 20 years of delays.
The day before the deadline, people aligned in government offices throughout the country to ensure their compatible identifications. In Chicago, the officials established a true identification superficial for appointments without appointment, while the officials in California and in other places planned to continue offering prolonged hours for falling in love with appointments.
“I am here today, so I will not be on the deadline, which is tomorrow,” said Marion Henderson, who requested his real identification on Tuesday in Jackson, Mississippi.
Secretary of National Security Kristi calls On Tuesday, he assured people that they still do not have a real identification but who need to take a domestic flight on Wednesday that they can fly after eliminating additional identity controls.
Some complained about the need to ensure identification after waiting in line for hours.
Michael Aceto waited in a row in a DMV in King of Prussia, in the Philadelphia suburbs, for approximately two and a half hours on Tuesday before obtaining its true identification.
“It’s a pain in the back. It’s really a long time. Everyone has to take off from work to be here,” he said. “It is a great waste of time in what is concerned.”
The transportation of transportation warned people who do not have an identification that meets the real identification requirements to reach the airport early and be prepared for advanced detection to avoid delays.
The new requirements have been subject to many Reddit threads and Facebook group discussions in recent weeks, with numerous people who express confusion about whether they can travel without real identification, share details about waiting times and seek advice on how to meet the requirements.
Noem told a Congress panel that 81% of travelers already have real identifications. She said that security points will also accept passports and tribal identification, as they have already been doing.
Those who still lack an identification that complies with the real identification law “can deviate to a different line, have an additional step,” said Noem.
“But people will be allowed to fly,” he said. “We will make sure it is as fluid as possible.”
Real ID is a license or identification card issued by the State that meets the federal that national security says it is a safer way of identification. It was a recommendation of the commission of September 11 and was signed in the law in 2005. It was supposed to be implemented in 2008, but the implementation had been Repeatedly delayed.
“The full idea is better to validate people who met a control point to make sure they are exactly who they are,” said Thomas Carter, Federal Security Director of TSA in New Jersey.
Carter said those without real identification should give extra time to clear security.
“If they do that, I don’t think this will make people lose their flights if they take that additional time,” he said.
In addition to serving as a valid form of identification to fly nationwide, people will also need real identification to access certain federal buildings and facilities.
The state government offices that issue driver’s licenses and state identifications have seen a significant increase in real identification demand and some have extended their office hours to meet demand. Some officials have recommended that people wait a time to obtain real identification licenses and composition cards if they do not have planned in the coming months.
“We are encouraging people who have passports or other real documents that comply with identification and people who do not have travel plans in the coming months to wait until after the current race to request real identification,” said Erin Johnson, spokesman for the Minnesota Public Security Department.
Johnson said the department has seen a significant increase in the demand for real identification in recent weeks. In February, there were more than 48,000 applications for real identification; That has almost doubled more than 99,000 in April, he said.
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The writers of Associated Press Rebecca Santana in Washington, DC, Janie Har in San Francisco and Joseph Frederick in Newark, New Jersey and Tassanee Vejpongsa in the king of Prussia, Pennsylvania, contributed to this story.
