Homeland Security chief says travelers with no REAL ID can fly for now, but with likely extra steps

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FILE - In this photograph taken April 6, 2016, a motion astatine the national courthouse successful Tacoma, Wash., is shown to pass visitors of the national government's REAL ID act. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, file) (Ted S. Warren, Copyright 2017 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.)

WASHINGTON – Travelers who aren’t REAL ID compliant by the upcoming deadline this week volition inactive beryllium capable to alert but should beryllium prepared for other scrutiny, the caput of Homeland Security said Tuesday.

Kristi Noem told a Congressional sheet that 81% of travelers already person IDs that comply with the REAL ID requirements. She said information checkpoints volition besides beryllium accepting passports and tribal recognition erstwhile the deadline hits Wednesday.

Those who inactive deficiency an recognition that complies with the REAL ID instrumentality “may beryllium diverted to a antithetic line, person an other step,” Noem said.

“But radical volition beryllium allowed to fly,” she said. “We volition marque definite it’s arsenic seamless arsenic possible.”

REAL ID is simply a federally compliant state-issued licence oregon recognition paper that Homeland Security says is simply a much unafraid signifier of identification. It was a proposal by the 9/11 Commission and signed into instrumentality successful 2005, but implementation has been repeatedly delayed.

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