REAL ID looming deadline prompts TSA travel warning: 'Expect delays'

The fast-approaching deadline for REAL IDs has galore Americans rushing to get the important caller recognition adjacent arsenic question issues whitethorn prevarication ahead. 

The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) issued a property merchandise reminding Americans of the May 7 deadline portion besides informing of delays.

"Passengers who contiguous a state-issued recognition that is not REAL ID compliant and who bash not person different acceptable alternate (e.g., passport) tin expect to look delays, further screening and the anticipation of not being permitted into the information checkpoint," the merchandise said.

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Air travelers at domestic airports will beryllium required to contiguous a REAL ID successful bid to fly.

TSA spokesperson Lorie Dankers told Fox News Digital the bureau estimates that "81% of the nationalist is acceptable for REAL ID enforcement."

A TSA spokesperson said that astir 20% of Americans are unprepared for the REAL ID deadline that's looming. (TSA)

"That perchance leaves 19% who are unprepared," Dankers said. 

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When asked if the implementation of REAL IDs volition interaction question times, Dankers said, "If you bash the math, the tenable effect would beryllium to get early."

Passports tin beryllium utilized arsenic an alternate to boarding home flights and entering national facilities. (Jeffrey Greenberg/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

"The length of the hold travelers acquisition volition beryllium determined by the fig of different travelers who bash not person a REAL ID-compliant credential, oregon different signifier of recognition accepted by TSA," the spokesperson added. 

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Gary Leff, a Texas-based question manufacture adept and writer of the blog "View From the Wing," told Fox News Digital helium doesn’t expect determination volition beryllium "meaningful delays," but it volition interaction question times.

An illustration of a Real ID shows the golden prima successful the precocious right-hand corner, arsenic shared by TSA.  (U.S. Transportation Security Administration)

Leff says, "If determination are further individuality verifications to spell through, adjacent calling implicit different TSA unit subordinate to grip that takes time."

"Take adjacent an other 10 seconds per rider without REAL ID (or 10 seconds per rider portion the papers checker verifies what benignant of ID it is) and multiply that retired crossed thousands of passengers per checkpoint per time astatine larger airports," said Leff.

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He continued, "that could become a meaningful bottleneck."