From State Rep. Dan Ugaste:
Approach of delayed REAL ID deadline of May 3, 2023
For more than five years, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security has been warning Americans that in order to enjoy the unencumbered right to use their drivers’ licenses as security identification cards, the drivers’ licenses have to be issued up to “REAL ID” standards.
These standards, enforced by Homeland Security, are meant to prevent the use of counterfeit documents to get a driver’s license.
The Office of the Secretary of State’s REAL ID checklist includes the current, non-expired documents that an Illinois resident needs to get a driver’s license that has the REAL ID white star-within-a-gold-circle logo.
Primary required documents include
- proof of identity,
- proof of U.S. residency status, and
- a valid document containing the applicant’s Social Security number.
For required secondary documentation, including
- previous ID cards and
- a valid statement from a financial institution or an employer,
- various paper-trail items are acceptable.
Applicants should read the IL-SOS checklist for details.
The federal REAL ID mandate, which will apply to all persons seeking to enter the secure areas of an airport, federal building, or military base, will go into effect on May 3, 2023.
This effective date has been delayed several times due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
As Illinois residents renew their drivers’ licenses in coming months, they will face the choice of whether to go through the REAL-ID process. Under current law, most American citizens with non-REAL-ID compliant ID cards will not be able to proceed to a boarding gate and fly on a commercial plane after May 2, 2023.
There will be an exception from this ban in favor of U.S. citizens with valid, current passports, as any holder of a valid U.S. passport will have already gone through a separate identity check.
Illegal Aliens don’t need this, so why should legal American citizens?
Just another government scam – your papers please. What’s next?
Funny. Are all those illegal criminals crossing our borders in possession of a valid passport?
Are they showing ID to board one of Biden’s middle of the night flights to red states?
Remember showing a valid ID is voter suppression.
What a joke.
Considering how many years behind that Illinois is in ALL its licensing, this is gonna be an impossiblity to pull off.
Beyond that quagmire, try getting everyone to get on board with this totally illegal and Luciferian tracking system.
My favorite part of the bullshit shutdown, was my Drivers License and Passport both expiring, while these Public Sector slugs sat at home with full pay and benefits, but managing to auto generate expiration notices by mail.
It will be interesting to watch what happens with the federal courthouses.
They’ll have to admit witnesses, jurors, defendants, and other interested parties who don’t have REAL ID.
Will they subject these people to double secret scrutiny, or will they just wave them in the same way that they wave in the people with REAL ID?
That would be a tacit admission that the REAL ID requirement is basically a joke.