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FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - May 7 is the day. The REAL ID requirement is successful effect astatine airports nationwide, national buildings and subject bases.
The bulk of radical that YourCentralValley.com spoke with astatine the Fresno Yosemite International Airport connected Wednesday greeting experienced a creaseless process. In fact, Homeland Security says astir 85% of folks already person their REAL ID.
But immoderate radical did not person their REAL ID and ran into immoderate issues.
"Maybe I've been surviving nether a rock. I don't know," said Lisa Ryan, who had nary hint she needed her REAL ID until conscionable hours earlier she was expected to committee a level for Tulsa.
"My formation is astatine 10 and I'm present astatine 7 successful the morning. I called Delta and they said, 'Well, you're going to person to capable retired a form, there's going to beryllium lines.' Totally filled maine with fear. So I'm present early, conscionable successful case," Ryan said.
Folks without a REAL ID or a valid U.S. Passport were required to complete additional paperwork. And the U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem ensured that everyone would inactive beryllium capable to committee their flight.
"I'm conscionable truly tense astir having to basal done lines," Ryan said.
Over astatine the Clovis DMW, a enactment started forming close erstwhile it opened. Most of the folks were determination to get a recently issued ID.
"I deliberation astir 1 hr and 30 minutes," said Navjot Kaur.
That's however agelong Kaur and her mother-in-law had to wait, conscionable to beryllium told they present person to spell to the Social Security office.
"The main contented that she has, occupation with her sanction connected her similar ID, due to the fact that her archetypal name, that 1 is enactment successful her past name. So that is the problem. That's wherefore we are incapable to use a REAL ID today," Kaur said.
Kaur says it's important to her household to person the astir up-to-date identification.
"Mr. Trump, helium announced that everybody should person their existent ID, truthful that's wherefore we each rushed to the DMV, is for this. You know, we are Indians, and we privation to marque each of our documents. So that's wherefore my father-in-law helium was scared," she said.
As for John Johnson, who has a travel coming up, helium says Tuesday was the lone clip helium could get it done.
"Thank God we had idiosyncratic successful the enactment who knew what we were expected to bash due to the fact that we can't spell up to the registry to inquire a question. We're conscionable each trying to assistance each different retired here," helium said.
He told YourCentralValley.com that helium could not docket an assignment online and conscionable hoped helium showed up with the close documents. In California, residents request impervious of identity, a Social Security number, and 2 antithetic forms proving their address.
"It's creaseless if you're a beauteous bully adult, and we're caller adults. So I got papers here. I got papers there. I got papers there. So collecting each of them was a hard thing, but we got it done," Johnson said.
For those whose ID has not expired yet, officials accidental they tin usage their passport, if they person one, until their ID is owed for renewal.
