US travelers are facing additional complications from a new federal identification rule that threatens to snarl operations at the nation’s airports just ahead of the summer rush.
Officials on Wednesday began enforcing a long-planned requirement that domestic passengers use what’s known as a REAL ID card, ending the longstanding practice of accepting standard driver’s licenses for air travel. Passports and certain other forms of identification, such as “enhanced” driver’s licenses, will also be accepted. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem on Tuesday warned of airport security delays as the rule goes into effect. Anyone without a compliant identification “may be diverted to a different line, have an extra step, but people will be able to fly,” she told a House Appropriations subcommittee.
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