Real ID May 7, 2025 deadline, do you have one already, will you have one by next year or just use a passport?

[Mackenzie Click-Mickelson]

The deadline has been pushed to May 5th 2027.

Based on how many times it has been pushed, I wouldn't worry about getting a compliant ID until 2072 at the earliest.

I think you read that incorrectly.

IF a phased approach was granted it has been said "The phased approach, the TSA explains, could vary based on the agency’s operations. Those without a REAL ID after May 5, 2025, could, for example, “face delays at airport security checkpoints.” "While it does not extend the current REAL ID deadline, the TSA explains it would require agencies to “achieve full enforcement by May 5, 2027.”

"There is currently a comment period on the proposed rule, which is open until mid-October. Until then — and likely regardless of whether or not the rule is enacted — you’ll need a REAL ID in order to fly domestically or enter certain federal facilities by May 7, 2025."

Very different, at least from present information, of saying it's been delayed like it has been previously where across the board the date was pushed back.

 

[kdonnel]

The proposed rule allows you through security without a REAL ID. It is a 2 year delay no matter how they try to spin it.

 

[kdonnel]

It is possible there are now TSA agents that were not alive when the REAL ID act was passed.

 

[Mackenzie Click-Mickelson]

The proposed rule allows you through security without a REAL ID. It is a 2 year delay no matter how they try to spin it.

What the wording is a proposed phased approach, one of which hasn't even been given approval for much less what it actually means. That's what I'm saying (and what I believe the other poster is saying) so no it hasn't been delayed again as it stands today. It also says "vary based on the agency’s operations" TSA already operates differently at different airports and those change based on what the TSA wants to do, some airports it's always a belt off others it's not, etc. And they gave an example but that shouldn't be construed as what would happen nor what would happen at every airport.

It's more about stating something as fact when that's not what has been released as fact, at least as of what has even been mentioned by TSA thus far.

 

[kdonnel]

What the wording is a proposed phased approach, one of which hasn't even been given approval for much less what it actually means. That's what I'm saying (and what I believe the other poster is saying) so no it hasn't been delayed again as it stands today. It also says "vary based on the agency’s operations" TSA already operates differently at different airports and those change based on what the TSA wants to do, some airports it's always a belt off others it's not, etc. And they gave an example but that shouldn't be construed as what would happen nor what would happen at every airport.

It's more about stating something as fact when that's not what has been released as fact, at least as of what has even been mentioned by TSA thus far.

The TSA has proposed a 2 year delay because they don’t want to have to tell a large percentage of the flying public they can’t fly today as they try to go through security. There will be lots of conflict otherwise.

I have little doubt that the rule proposal will become the rule and that you will continue to be able to fly without a real id until at least 2027, if not 2072.

 

[Mackenzie Click-Mickelson]

The TSA has proposed a 2 year delay because they don’t want to have to tell a large percentage of the flying public they can’t fly today as they try to go through security. There will be lots of conflict otherwise.

I have little doubt that the rule proposal will become the rule and that you will continue to be able to fly without a real id until at least 2027, if not 2072.

Again...a phased approach is the wording they've used. Phased could mean this airport but not that airport, it could mean this federal building but not that one, it could mean this state's DLs but not other states (and could be based on the number of people in a given state that has REAL ID or the implementation date a state has for getting a REAL ID like MO for example that didn't start issuing them until March 2019).

I'm glad you're confident but let's not put something as official when it's not that yet. Most of us know not to get all up in arms over a deadline that has been delayed already 3 times (similar to Europe's ESTA and EES) but unless the TSA says "for every person flying for every airport out there we will NOT require REAL ID until X date" then what you're trying to say isn't what they are actually putting out there. And they've explicitly said it doesn't delay the actual date.

 

[sam_gordon]

The proposed rule allows you through security without a REAL ID. It is a 2 year delay no matter how they try to spin it.

I agree with the effects. However, at this point, it is still a PROPOSED rule.

 

[cookies44]

I have one already.