I seem to recall a previous discussion about this but am unable to find it now. I wonder how widely this is known that residents from these nine states will be required to have a passport for flying, even domestically, as of January 22, 2018.
I vaguely remembered reading this long time ago. Fortunately TX is not on the list.
BTW, you can carry passport card instead.
Thanks for the heads up-- it doesn’t affect me, but I’ve sent the link to my friend who lives in PA.
Other ID’s will work as well. Both Maine and Washington offer enhanced licenses that can be used to cross borders, and those will work. Federal ID’s will work if they have an expiration date (most issued to employees do not).
You’ll also need need a REAL ID compliant document to get into federal facilities.
Wouldn’t it make more sense for those 9 states to change their state-issued IDs so that they are in compliance?
I read this about Maine: “Kristen Muszynski, spokeswoman for the Maine Secretary of State’s Office, said the law Maine passed this year requires Real ID-compliant licenses and state identification cards to be issued by July 2019. She said the state needs to provide additional training for its staff, conduct background checks of workers and make some technological changes, such as additional computer storage space for the documents.”
http://www.pressherald.com/2017/06/15/maine-gets-extension-on-real-id-compliance/
All of our family has passports, anyway.
Compliance is $$$$ and time. And a major pain in the butt to implement.
I thought WA got an extension, too. But I have to renew my passport anyway.
I have a passport (just got it renewed). Have been watching this issue, hoping another extension will be granted and/or my state will get their act together so I don’t have to pay extra for the accepted id. Looks like I might need to pony up, though, as I don’t want to carry my passport for routine US travel. 
Some of the states are taking a stance against the REAL ID act. I know Montana and Washington are.
When I moved to California in 2010, I had to go through a big process to get a driver’s license, providing either an original birth certificate or a passport. They’d no longer take an OOS license as identification. It took 13 weeks for them to send me my new one because the new process had two pictures and special security features. Moved to Florida and it was even worse, but once we provided valid passports, we got licenses with a red star on them to show they were REAL ID compliant.
Many states, not just the 9 listed, are not in compliance but they have an extension and their state issued IDs will be accepted during the extension period.
When California decided to issue driver’s licenses to undocumented people, they had to make those licenses look different than those issued to citizens because if they didn’t they’d no longer be compliant with the REAL ID requirements and no license would work for TSA. People threw a fit that the undocumented license holders shouldn’t be embarrassed by having a different license, but the risk was having all state issued ID rejected.
According to a TSA article linked in the article linked in the OP, there will be additional states beginning October 1, 2020 will require passports (or at least something beyond state issued drivers licenses).
Do the Global Entry cards qualify as “real ID”? If so, for $100 for 5 years, you can get thru TSA quicker and have a good ID. I really love having global entry and always use it when flying.
But what do you need to have to get the Global ID? My brother tried to get one of the travel cards (don’t know which one) and he needed two ID’s. He had a passport but not a state driver’s license so was rejected.
What’s kind of funny is that my niece’s husband is Canadian and has more of the forms of ID listed than a regular State of Washington resident would have. He has a Canadian passport, a green card, an enhanced DL (from Canada). My niece works at a Shell facility so her employee ID serves as a Global entry/other TSA pass, plus she has all the other stuff too (passport, DL)
There is a list of approved documents you can use to get your Pre-Check or Global Entry card. If you do an only me sewstch if should yield that info. If you don’t have a license, there should be alternate docs that work, especially for younger folks with no license.
Right, but if you have all those documents to get the Global/Pre-check, you’d have the right documents to get on the plane in Maine or Illinois.
I guess my thought was if those ID’s are not accepted by TSA for boarding, will they be accepted to get Global/Pre-check?
I’ve had the enhanced ID (which lets you go to Canada and, I believe, Mexico) since high school. This is pretty par for the course around here since going back and forth to Canada is nothing unusual. Luckily it looks like it is compliant with REAL ID.
It’s easier to have standardized documents like Global Entry or Pre-Check than a bunch of documents. As there does not appear to be any evidence that we are moving away from these official docs, we figured it was a good idea to have Global Entry. We do have passports but prefer only to use them for international travel.
I know NYS got an extension until 2020. My passport expired a few month ago and just haven’t gotten around to getting it renewed. H is all sorted as is S.
So why only 9 states? What about the other 41??
Forget it, I googled, they are not compliant.
You also need RealID or your passport to enter any federal building, except post offices.
I have a passport. My NYS driver’s license expires in about 6 months and I will get an enhanced one at that time. S17 attends school near Canada and I can use that license instead of schlepping my passport to go there.
I don’t travel enough to make it worthwhile, but I am going to suggest to D and her bf that they consider global pre-check.