REAL ID requirement now in effect for U.S. air travel

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- You volition present request your REAL ID if you program to question connected a level successful the U.S.

The TSA says determination are coagulated plans successful spot astatine each airdrome to support operations moving smoothly.

On apical of the uniformed TSA workers who are retired here, determination volition besides beryllium plain-clothed workers retired helping travelers get to their destination.

The TSA says 81 percent of those who question by aerial successful the U.S. contiguous are already compliant. You volition inactive beryllium capable to question adjacent if you bash not person your REAL ID, but officials accidental to expect delays.

REAL ID is simply a federally compliant state-issued licence oregon recognition paper that Homeland Security says is simply a much unafraid signifier of identification. It was a proposal by the 9/11 Commission and signed into instrumentality successful 2005.

The committee recommended the authorities acceptable information standards for state-issued driver's licenses and IDs. It was expected to beryllium rolled retired successful 2008 but implementation has been repeatedly delayed.

Besides needing a REAL ID to alert domestically, radical volition besides request 1 to entree definite national buildings and facilities.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.