If You're From One of These Four States, You'll Likely Need a Passport for a Domestic Flight
http://www.travelandleisure.com/articles/drivers-licenses-new-york-domestic-flight-real-id The standard licenses from New York, Louisiana, Minnesota, New Hampshire, and American Samoa are considered "noncompliant" with the security standards outlined in the Real ID Act, which was enacted back in 2005 but is being implemented in stages. Why are these specific licenses deemed sub-par? In these five places, getting a license doesn't require proof of citizenship or residency. The new rules will go into effect sometime in 2016 (the exact date has not been announced), and there will be a three-month forgiveness period, during which people with these licenses will be warned that their IDs are no longer valid for flights. - - - I call bull on this. What's going on here is the feds trying to put more pressure on those states. There's no way the millions of people affected are going to get passports to fly out of their states domestically. Most people will never even hear about this -- or will misunderstand it. If all the people in those states who have to fly domestically who don't have passports suddenly applied, the passport issuing system would collapse into even more of a quivering heap than its usual condition. You can bet there's going to be some sort of "accommodation" made, otherwise you'll be seeing riots at those airports. --Lauren-- Lauren Weinstein ([email protected]): http://www.vortex.com/lauren Founder: - Network Neutrality Squad: http://www.nnsquad.org - PRIVACY Forum: http://www.vortex.com/privacy-info Co-Founder: People For Internet Responsibility: http://www.pfir.org/pfir-info Member: ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy Lauren's Blog: http://lauren.vortex.com Google+: http://google.com/+LaurenWeinstein Twitter: http://twitter.com/laurenweinstein Tel: +1 (818) 225-2800 / Skype: vortex.com _______________________________________________ pfir mailing list http://lists.pfir.org/mailman/listinfo/pfir
