Air travelers without REAL ID to face extra screening but will be allowed to fly for now, DHS says

Americans who don't person their REAL IDs volition inactive beryllium allowed to alert aft the May 7 deadline, but they volition look other screening and delays astatine the airport.

Homeland Security Sec. Kristi Noem made the announcement during a House Appropriations Committee proceeding connected Tuesday. Noem said 81% of travelers already person IDs that comply with the REAL ID requirements and added that information checkpoints volition besides beryllium accepting passports and tribal recognition erstwhile the deadline hits Wednesday.

"People volition beryllium allowed to fly," Noem told lawmakers. "We volition marque definite it’s arsenic seamless arsenic possible."

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.

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REAL ID volition beryllium required for Americans starting May 7, but DHS officials accidental Americans without it volition inactive beryllium allowed to question for now. (Getty Images)

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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Obtaining a REAL ID includes much stringent requirements for verifying a person's individuality than has been utilized successful the past with non-REAL ID driver's licenses. The power to this caller signifier of recognition has caused a batch of chaos and confusion, with galore travelers expressing fearfulness they won't beryllium capable to get a REAL ID earlier the Wednesday deadline.

DHS Sec. Kristi Noem offered much details connected the REAL ID rollout during a Tuesday hearing. (Getty Images)

Travelers without a REAL ID tin usage their passport, but adjacent without that determination are inactive alternatives to the caller requirement, though they conscionable mightiness adhd delays to your travel and aren't guaranteed to work.

Passengers volition beryllium required to capable retired a Transportation Security Administration (TSA) Form 415, besides known arsenic a Certification of Identity form, and if the TSA officials are capable to corroborate the details fixed to them, passengers volition beryllium allowed to spell done the information checkpoint and committee their flight. Passengers who spell this way whitethorn beryllium taxable to further pat-downs, questioning oregon different other information screening.

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Even if you get denied, you whitethorn inactive beryllium capable to instrumentality vantage of airline policies that let passengers to re-book their formation the pursuing day, providing those without the due recognition clip to get it. 

The Associated Press contributed to this report