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FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – The deadline for travelers to get a Real ID is approaching. TSA volition nary longer judge state-issued driver's licenses starting May 7.
“That is little than 3 weeks from today,” TSA Spokesperson Lorie Dankers said.
Dankers says they person been informing radical astir the alteration for respective years, but 19% of travelers inactive don’t person a Real ID.
Many person either procrastinated getting 1 oregon person wholly forgotten astir it. Fresno Yosemite International Airport traveler Camilla Foster is not 1 of those people.
“It was an casual process. Very easy,” Foster said.
She and fellow-traveler Lana Morgan accidental they got Real IDs arsenic soon arsenic they became available.
“If you spell successful prepared, there's truly thing to it. It takes nothing. But you person to cognize successful advance. It freaked maine retired erstwhile I archetypal heard. I thought, ‘Oh, goodness, I’ve got to person this and that and that. But, you know, determination was thing to it,” Morgan said.
It whitethorn not beryllium rather arsenic elemental for those who waited.
“The procrastinators are uncovering that this is present catching up to them. The DMV appointments are afloat successful presumption of getting a Real ID,” Dankers said.
One traveler told YourCentralValley.com that erstwhile they tried to get a DMV assignment for their Real ID, the earliest disposable slot was May 28.
Dankers says aft May 7, anyone who tries to alert without due recognition volition look “Additional screenings, unpredictable screenings, and perchance being turned distant from the checkpoint.”
She says the process could dilatory down the full line, truthful it’s amended to alert connected the harmless broadside and get a Real ID.
However, for those who cannot get a Real ID successful clip for their flights, she says they tin bring a passport, subject credentials, a imperishable nonmigratory card, oregon immoderate different alternate listed connected the TSA website.
