The TSA
is troubled that only 27 percent of Americans currently have REAL ID-compliant
identification cards, one year shy of the deadline when travelers will need one
to fly. (If there’s a star at the top of your driver’s license, you’re good to
go.) New Jersey, Oklahoma and Oregon are the only states that don’t issue
compliant ID cards yet and they all, plus American Samoa, are slated to be
compliant by Oct. 10. The Northern Mariana Islands has until Feb. 28 of next
year
The California DMV has been issuing REAL IDs since January of
2018. However, the confusion began last November, when DHS
informed the DMV that its procedure for approving REAL IDs was incorrect.
To obtain a REAL ID, applicants must show two documents proving
residency, such as a utility bill or a pay stub. The California DMV said it had
been operating under a directive from DHS that applicants only be required to
physically bring in one document proving residency to the DMV office, and
counted on delivery of the ID card by the post office as the secondary proof of
someone’s address.
Emails show that DHS had approved such a process in 2017. However,
in November, DHS suddenly reversed course, and told the DMV that was no longer
acceptable: applicants must now bring two documents proving residency in person
to a DMV office.
In response to this week’s DHS letter, the DMV released a
statement to the Sacramento Bee saying it will reach out to the 3.4 million
Californians who have already obtained REAL IDs and inform them that they will
need to provide a second proof of residency form.
Those people will not need to come back into the DMV, however.
Instead, the DMV will mail them letters that they need to mail back, thus
fulfilling the DHS guidelines for a second proof of residency.
“The DMV will be sending letters to individuals who submitted one
proof of residency to acquire their Real ID card, informing them to send the
letter back to DMV to serve as their proof of second residency,” the DMV
statement read.
By October of 2020, REAL ID cards will required to board airplanes
or enter federal buildings. U.S. residents who do not have a REAL ID will be
required to show an alternative document, like a passport.
To Watch News Clip:
https://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2019/04/11/already-have-your-california-real-id-you-may-have-a-problem/
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/in General NewsThe TSA is troubled that only 27 percent of Americans currently have REAL ID-compliant identification cards, one year shy of the deadline when travelers will need one to fly. (If there’s a star at the top of your driver’s license, you’re good to go.) New Jersey, Oklahoma and Oregon are the only states that don’t issue compliant ID cards yet and they all, plus American Samoa, are slated to be compliant by Oct. 10. The Northern Mariana Islands has until Feb. 28 of next year
The California DMV has been issuing REAL IDs since January of 2018. However, the confusion began last November, when DHS informed the DMV that its procedure for approving REAL IDs was incorrect.
To obtain a REAL ID, applicants must show two documents proving residency, such as a utility bill or a pay stub. The California DMV said it had been operating under a directive from DHS that applicants only be required to physically bring in one document proving residency to the DMV office, and counted on delivery of the ID card by the post office as the secondary proof of someone’s address.
Emails show that DHS had approved such a process in 2017. However, in November, DHS suddenly reversed course, and told the DMV that was no longer acceptable: applicants must now bring two documents proving residency in person to a DMV office.
In response to this week’s DHS letter, the DMV released a statement to the Sacramento Bee saying it will reach out to the 3.4 million Californians who have already obtained REAL IDs and inform them that they will need to provide a second proof of residency form.
Those people will not need to come back into the DMV, however. Instead, the DMV will mail them letters that they need to mail back, thus fulfilling the DHS guidelines for a second proof of residency.
“The DMV will be sending letters to individuals who submitted one proof of residency to acquire their Real ID card, informing them to send the letter back to DMV to serve as their proof of second residency,” the DMV statement read.
By October of 2020, REAL ID cards will required to board airplanes or enter federal buildings. U.S. residents who do not have a REAL ID will be required to show an alternative document, like a passport.
To Watch News Clip:
https://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2019/04/11/already-have-your-california-real-id-you-may-have-a-problem/
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