Post by pavel on Jan 8, 2016 23:29:26 GMT -6
Officials confident Louisiana will meet Real ID deadline for new identification standards
Just as a Sunday deadline had much of the country fretting over whether their state’s driver’s licenses would be acceptable enough identification to board an airplane, federal authorities announced Friday afternoon they would postpone enforcing the Real ID Act until January 2018.
U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson issued a statement outlining the schedule.
Under the law, residents of states whose licenses and identification cards fail to meet Real ID standards and whose officials have failed to get an extension will have to show an acceptable alternative form of identification to board a domestic air flight. Starting Oct. 1, 2020, every air traveler will need identification that complies with Real ID.
All of this means little immediately to Louisiana travelers, as state government, with the help of the congressional delegation, already was allowed to extend the Sunday deadline until October.
Read more: theadvocate.com/news/14516051-123/state-officials-confident-louisiana-will-meet-id-deadline
Just as a Sunday deadline had much of the country fretting over whether their state’s driver’s licenses would be acceptable enough identification to board an airplane, federal authorities announced Friday afternoon they would postpone enforcing the Real ID Act until January 2018.
U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson issued a statement outlining the schedule.
Under the law, residents of states whose licenses and identification cards fail to meet Real ID standards and whose officials have failed to get an extension will have to show an acceptable alternative form of identification to board a domestic air flight. Starting Oct. 1, 2020, every air traveler will need identification that complies with Real ID.
All of this means little immediately to Louisiana travelers, as state government, with the help of the congressional delegation, already was allowed to extend the Sunday deadline until October.
Read more: theadvocate.com/news/14516051-123/state-officials-confident-louisiana-will-meet-id-deadline