Some States See Real Id Crowd Rush, Others Quiet As Deadline Looms

Some states are seeing monolithic lines astatine Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) locations arsenic travelers scramble to get their REAL IDs anterior to nan May 7 deadline. Others, not truthful much.

FOX News Multimedia Reporter Asher Redd was unrecorded extracurricular a DMV successful Antioch, Tennessee, connected FOX 35 Orlando Monday morning, wherever a statement of astir 200 group stood down him. 

Redd said states for illustration Illinois, Pennsylvania and Tennessee person immoderate of nan longest lines and assignment hold lists done astatine slightest July. There successful Tennessee, he reported immoderate DMVs are unfastened six days a week successful hopes of getting everyone nan recognition travelers from U.S. airports and those entering immoderate national buildings will need.  

California is successful a akin boat, FOX 11 Los Angeles reported, wherever immoderate offices are opening an hr early done June 27 for those who started nan process online and made appointments. 

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A REAL ID motion is seen astatine nan Denver Airport. (Fox News)

Meanwhile, Florida is not seeing nan aforesaid rush. Some group who unrecorded successful nan Sunshine State tin skip DMVs altogether, and get their drivers' licenses astatine nan section taxation collector's offices.

"We are fortunate successful Florida since amendment 10, nan section taxation collectors successful nan authorities person done a phenomenal occupation to guarantee nan citizens person gotten their Real ID compliance completed," a spokesperson for nan Seminole County Tax Collector's Office told Fox News Digital via email. 

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A sample driver's licence that is REAL ID compliant.  (DC DMV)

"Here successful Seminole County location are only astir 4000 group that person yet to complete it, which is little than 1% of nan population," nan connection said. 

Instead of heading to nan DMV, nan laminitis of passport and Visa services ItsEasy.com recommends obtaining a passport card.

TSA checkpoint information screening pinch REAL ID motion astatine Miami International Airport.  (Jeffrey Greenberg/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

"The last-minute unreserved to get a REAL ID Driver's License is starring to long delays astatine nan DMV and causing unnecessary stress amongst travelers," David Alwadish said successful a statement. "The credit-card sized, U.S. passport paper is simply a convenient, unafraid and affordable alternative."

"For added security, I emotion that, unlike a DMV-issued ID, it does not person your reside connected it for strangers to cognize wherever you live," Aldawish added.

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The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) continues reminding Americans "that starting Wednesday, May 7, 2025, every air traveler 18 years of property and older will request to person a REAL ID-compliant state-issued driver’s license, instruction licence aliases recognition paper aliases different acceptable shape of ID to committee a U.S. commercialized aircraft," according to media releases.

REAL IDs person a prima successful nan precocious right-hand corner, TSA said. 

Once enforcement begins, nan TSA said unprepared travelers arriving astatine TSA checkpoints should expect delays.