While this is ridiculous. The original requirement date for a real id was 2008. It has been 20 years since real id was passed. You have had 20 years to get one.
Dude it was hard enough for my wife to get a new ID (not REAL) when we moved from RI to MA.
I do all the bills and handle all the finances. My credit was better (now we are about equal) and so all the utilities and most the credit cards are in my name. Not to mention most of them are paperless.
At the time, I think she was also still on a cell phone plan with her siblings.
So, like, absolutely no official-enough mail coming to our house to her name. And they need 2.
What, exactly, is the purpose of an ID, and why does it need my SSN and two pieces of mail? How does that identify me, as a person, any more than a supporting document like an existing US Passport? If I qualified for a US Passport, why the hell do I need so much more on top of that for just a state issued ID.
The whole thing is a scam to bully minorities and put an additional burden on traveling for low-income families. I wonder how many people are missing flights to some important and unexpected event (i.e. a funeral) because they never fly and never had a reason to get a REAL ID.
For that matter, I’d really like to know what TSA gets out of a REAL ID that they don’t get out of a regular license, for domestic travel? They don’t care about my proof of residence, they only care that the name matches the boarding pass and the face, and isn’t Islamic or otherwise off-white.
And she did, last time we flew. Domestically. Which is absurd.
No other real reason to make a special trip to the RMV just to upgrade the license. Certainly not to pay a fee to get it and still keep the same expiration date on her license. So not even extending it.
My state didn’t start offering them until 2018, and our IDs are good for 5 years. Also, our DVS was a complete shitshow at the time with regular licenses taking up to 6 months to arrive, and double that for a real id. People avoided them so they wouldn’t have to renew a temporary license every 3 months.
Realistically, people in my state have had an average of one opportunity to get a real id on renewal.
My state had extremely limited appointments for Real ID applications. Then they casually offered an “upgrade” when I went to add an endorsement in 2021 because they went to no-walk-in appointment system and suddenly had all the time in the world on their hands
While this is ridiculous. The original requirement date for a real id was 2008. It has been 20 years since real id was passed. You have had 20 years to get one.
Dude it was hard enough for my wife to get a new ID (not REAL) when we moved from RI to MA.
I do all the bills and handle all the finances. My credit was better (now we are about equal) and so all the utilities and most the credit cards are in my name. Not to mention most of them are paperless.
At the time, I think she was also still on a cell phone plan with her siblings.
So, like, absolutely no official-enough mail coming to our house to her name. And they need 2.
What, exactly, is the purpose of an ID, and why does it need my SSN and two pieces of mail? How does that identify me, as a person, any more than a supporting document like an existing US Passport? If I qualified for a US Passport, why the hell do I need so much more on top of that for just a state issued ID.
The whole thing is a scam to bully minorities and put an additional burden on traveling for low-income families. I wonder how many people are missing flights to some important and unexpected event (i.e. a funeral) because they never fly and never had a reason to get a REAL ID.
For that matter, I’d really like to know what TSA gets out of a REAL ID that they don’t get out of a regular license, for domestic travel? They don’t care about my proof of residence, they only care that the name matches the boarding pass and the face, and isn’t Islamic or otherwise off-white.
How long until they require it to vote so it shuts out a majority of the voters from participating in elections?
Shhh… You’re saying the quiet parts out loud.
You know your wife could use a passport to fly, right?
And she did, last time we flew. Domestically. Which is absurd.
No other real reason to make a special trip to the RMV just to upgrade the license. Certainly not to pay a fee to get it and still keep the same expiration date on her license. So not even extending it.
My state didn’t start offering them until 2018, and our IDs are good for 5 years. Also, our DVS was a complete shitshow at the time with regular licenses taking up to 6 months to arrive, and double that for a real id. People avoided them so they wouldn’t have to renew a temporary license every 3 months.
Realistically, people in my state have had an average of one opportunity to get a real id on renewal.
My state had extremely limited appointments for Real ID applications. Then they casually offered an “upgrade” when I went to add an endorsement in 2021 because they went to no-walk-in appointment system and suddenly had all the time in the world on their hands