In 9 states, driving license will lose ID status

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Starting January 22, 2018, residents of 9 US states may be denied the right to board an airplane if they use their driver's license as identification, reports "Travel+Leisure«.

Residents of Kentucky, Maine, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina and Washington will have to use alternative forms of identity card (passport, military ID or permanent resident card) to pass through the TSA checkpoints even for domestic tourism.

On Thursday, TSA began posting information at airport checkpoints to warn travelers about new rules that would take effect in 2018.

The fact is that driver's licenses in these 9 states do not meet minimum safety standards. And, under the REAL ID Act of 2005, federal agencies (such as the TSA) are prohibited from “accepting for certain purposes driver's licenses and state identification cards that do not meet minimum security requirements.”

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Among the new requirements that most states failed to cope with are the following standards: when issuing a driver's license, the state must document the social security number, keep a digital copy of the application for rights; in addition, a driver's license must be protected by new safety signs.

Travelers who live in other states, these changes are not affected. But by 2020, all travelers must carry an ID that meets government security standards in order to pass through TSA checkpoints.

Currently, only 24 of the state, including Washington, DC, have a corresponding ID. The rest are either under review or have received a slight delay for the introduction of new requirements.

The REAL ID Act of 2005 was adopted in the 2005 year as one of the steps to tighten the requirements for identifying people after the September 11 2001 attacks. He puts more stringent requirements regarding the information provided for obtaining a driver's license, if they will be used as an ID at the state level.

Performers of the September 11 attacks had passport cards or driver's licenses issued in different states, so the FBI recommended that the US government unify the requirements for obtaining these documents in all states in order to increase the level of control over their issuance.

Beginning with 30 in January 2017, federal agencies and nuclear power plants may not accept for business purposes driver's licenses and other regional certificates issued by the states that did not receive a deferment on the introduction of new requirements.

And since January 2018, a driver's license issued by states that have not adapted their standards to federal requirements will not give the right to land on airplanes.

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