You now have 1 month to get your REAL ID. What to know in Florida

Planning connected traveling this outpouring and summertime season? Make definite there's a small golden prima connected your driver's licence earlier you caput to the airport.

Starting a period from today, each traveler implicit the property of 18 indispensable contiguous a REAL ID-compliant driver's license or recognition paper (or a valid passport oregon passport card) to committee a commercialized craft wrong the United States.

If you don't person one, you won't get done the TSA checkpoint. Here's what you request to know.

What is REAL ID?

A Real ID is simply a federally approved, state-issued driver's licence oregon ID that meets new information standards enacted by Congress after 9/11.  The deadline was pushed backmost owed to the COVID-19 pandemic.

In 2005, aft the 9/11 Commission recommended that the national authorities acceptable standards for identification, specified arsenic driver's licenses, Congress passed the Real ID Act. The enactment established minimum information standards for getting a licence anyplace crossed the country and prohibited immoderate national agencies from accepting thing less.

The Real ID Act became effectual nationwide connected May 11, 2008. Florida began issuing REAL ID-compliant credentials aft Jan. 4, 2010.

When volition Real ID beryllium enforced?

As of May 7, 2025, Real ID-compliant recognition oregon a valid passport oregon passport paper volition beryllium required for immoderate big U.S. nonmigratory to:

• Board federally regulated commercialized aircraft

• Access national authorities facilities oregon subject installations

• Enter atomic powerfulness plants

Fortunately, you astir apt already person one. If you've received a caller oregon renewed Florida driver's licence oregon ID since January 2010, you're already bully to go.

How tin I archer if I person a REAL ID successful Florida?

Check your driver's licence oregon state-issued identification. If it has a golden prima successful the apical right, it's REAL ID compliant.

What bash I bash if I don't person a Real ID? How bash I get a Real ID successful Florida?

You'll request to marque an assignment astatine a local driver's licence work halfway oregon taxation collector's office if:

• You don't already person a Real ID paper oregon your existing ID is not Real ID compliant and you aren't up for renewal earlier May 7, 2025

• Your sanction has changed by marriage, divorce, oregon tribunal bid since the past clip you got a card

If my Florida driver's licence is not Real ID compliant, tin I renew online?

No. You'll request to contiguous recognition documents successful idiosyncratic to person your Real ID card, but aft that you tin renew online.

How overmuch is simply a Real ID paper successful Florida?

The fee for an archetypal Florida Class E license (including a learner’s permit) is $48, a commercialized driver's licence (Class A) licence is $75 and endorsements are $7.00 each.

The interest for an ID Card is $25. Most section taxation collector offices besides complaint a $6.25 work fee.

What bash I request to get a Real ID paper successful Florida?

You’ll request to bring archetypal copies of superior documents to beryllium your identity, ineligible residence, Social Security presumption and day of birth. You tin find the list of accepted documents here.

NOTE: Birth certificates indispensable beryllium issued by a region wellness section oregon the CDC Bureau of Vital Statistics. Hospital commencement certificates are not considered a certified papers and volition not beryllium accepted.

There are antithetic papers lists for immigrants, non-immigrants, and Canadians wanting a REAL ID card.

Will I beryllium capable to alert without a Real ID?

Yes, if you tin contiguous alternate acceptable recognition specified arsenic your passport oregon passport card, DHS trusted traveler card, U.S. Department of Defense ID, imperishable nonmigratory card, borderline crossing card, photograph ID issued by a federally recognized Tribal Nation, oregon others. Here's the list.

However, a driver's licence oregon authorities ID that is not Real ID compliant volition nary longer beryllium acceptable.

This nonfiction primitively appeared connected Fort Myers News-Press: REAL ID deadline a period away. What to cognize successful Florida