U.S. delays implementing more durable ID guidelines till Could 2025 By Reuters

By David Shepardson

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Homeland Safety Division (DHS) stated Monday it would delay enforcement of guidelines requiring Individuals to get new identification playing cards with a view to board airplanes or enter a federal constructing, by one other two years to Could 2025.

The U.S. Congress in 2005 authorized federal requirements for issuing identification playing cards however enforcement has been repeatedly pushed again. DHS in April 2021 had pushed again the “REAL ID” enforcement deadline till Could 2023.

The brand new delay is partially “to deal with the lingering impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on the power to acquire a REAL ID driver’s license or identification card,” DHS stated.

The 2005 regulation enacted the Sept. 11 fee’s advice that the U.S. authorities “set requirements for the issuance of sources of identification, corresponding to driver’s licenses.”

The regulation units minimal safety requirements for license issuance and manufacturing.

As of June, solely round half of the eligible inhabitants had REAL IDs and the variety of Individuals acquiring them is rising at a really sluggish price. That determine is up from about 43% as of April 2021.

Airports Council Worldwide – North America chief government officer Kevin Burke praised the choice to push the deadline as a result of few individuals nonetheless have the playing cards. It’s going to assist “stop undue journey disruptions” and protect “the well being of the aviation system as we proceed to navigate the pandemic’s impacts on world air journey,” he stated.