The Trump administration is set to enforce a law requiring Americans to obtain REAL IDs starting on May 7, 2025, after the requirement was delayed for two decades.

Editor’s note, May 5, 2025, 11 am ET: This article was published in March. The REAL ID deadline is May 7, 2025. Some things feel like a fact of life: The sun rises in the morning and sets in the ...

Imagine a world where the state government always knows where you’ve been and whom you’ve been with. Government officials can track when you go to the doctor, where you pick up your kids from ...

How the Real ID came to be Passed by Congress in 2005, the Real ID Act enacted the 9/11 Commission's recommendation that the federal government “set standards for the issuance of sources of ...

A United States birth certificate with a raised seal, issued by an authorized government agency, including U.S. territories and Puerto Rico Please note: souvenir or hospital certificates will not ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Bill Talley secured his REAL ID one day before the federal enforcement deadline of May 7. He waited three-and-a-half hours in the walk-in line at the Kentucky Transportation ...

Congress passed the REAL ID Act in 2005 to establish federal standards for state-issued identification as part of post-9/11 security measures. The original enforcement date was 2008, but that has ...

According to the DOR, Missouri law allows for a one-time waiver of the duplicate transaction fees, which would be $19.50, for those who have not been issued a REAL ID license or ID card.