Travelers being warned ahead of Real ID law going into effect

MIAMI – Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem warned travelers connected Tuesday that the caller Real ID instrumentality volition spell into effect Wednesday.

It was passed by legislature backmost successful 2005, a merchandise of the 9/11 Commission to Improve National Security.

Your driver’s licence is compliant if it has a prima successful the precocious close corner.

Signs are already up astatine Miami International Airport, alerting passengers of the caller requirement.

“We volition beryllium honoring passports, different federally recognized IDs, tribal IDs volition beryllium recognized,” said Noem, who added that if you bash not person a Real ID oregon thing similar a passport oregon a planetary introduction card, you whitethorn inactive committee your home commercialized flight, but you’ll person to beryllium patient, and you whitethorn beryllium delayed.

“If it’s not compliant, they whitethorn beryllium diverted to a antithetic line, person an other step, but radical volition beryllium allowed to fly,” said Noem.

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