Top TSA official explains what to do if you don't have REAL ID

TSA Administrator Adam Stahl explained what Americans without REAL ID should bash if they person an upcoming flight, and helium addressed concerns astir the imaginable for agelong lines arsenic a result.

Enforcement of REAL ID went into effect connected Wednesday successful bid for radical to alert domestically wrong the United States and participate immoderate national buildings, according to the Department of Homeland Security.

Stahl told Fox News Digital connected Tuesday that radical who "do not person a compliant REAL ID volition acquisition perchance further vetting, further screening astatine the checkpoint. Those that bash not – We'll beryllium moving beauteous aggressively to minimize immoderate benignant of impacts to the checkpoint, to question to the checkpoint."

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Stahl told Fox News Digital connected Tuesday that radical who "do not person a compliant REAL ID volition acquisition perchance further vetting." (DHS)

He noted that a subject ID, a passport, and planetary introduction are alternatives that idiosyncratic tin use, but if they bash not person immoderate of those, they volition marque their flight.

"You volition inactive get done the checkpoint. You'll beryllium okay. You whitethorn look immoderate further screening measures, and that's wherefore we're truly underscoring to folks to delight spell to the airdrome early.

He noted that REAL ID’s past stems from 9/11, adjacent though the enforcement of the instrumentality has been pushed backmost respective times.

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The Transportation Security Administration's caller facial designation exertion is seen astatine a Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport information checkpoint, April 26, 2023, successful Glen Burnie, Md. The U.S. authorities has started requiring migrants without passports to taxable to facial designation exertion to instrumentality home flights nether a alteration that prompted disorder Tuesday, March 12, 2024, among immigrants and advocacy groups successful Texas. (AP Photo/Julia Nikhinson, File)

DHS noted that REAL ID volition assistance with migration enforcement, arsenic those successful the state illegally volition not beryllium capable to alert unless they are flying backmost to their state of origin.

"This is simply a instrumentality that was passed successful 2005 called the Real ID Law. And this was a captious vulnerability that was identified successful the aftermath of 9/11. And this is truly each astir elevating individuality and papers integrity. And so, this administration, this caput feels powerfully that this is an important instrumentality to enforce and that really, this is captious to ensuring the information and the information of our skies."

Stahl besides addressed skeptics of the law, who whitethorn beryllium acrophobic that it could beryllium utilized to support a person oculus connected the American public unnecessarily.

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Travelers marque their mode done Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport connected May 24, 2024 successful Arlington, Virginia. AAA projects travelers going 50 miles oregon much this Memorial Day vacation volition beryllium astir 44 cardinal people, a fig not seen since 2005. (Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

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"The conception that we are creating immoderate benignant of nationalist surveillance strategy is not true, it's not correct," Stahl said, saying the TSA’s main absorption is "safety" for travelers.

"This is each about, again, ensuring and elevating papers and information integrity to truly guarantee that we're ensuring the information successful our skies of our passengers and of the traveling public. So it has thing to bash with a nationalist database. It's each astir elevating papers and individuality integrity," helium added.