Loading ...If You Live In These States You’ll Soon Need A Passport For Domestic Flights
Tyler Durden’s pictureSubmitted by Tyler Durden on 09/20/2015 19:15 -0400
Submitted by John Vibes via TheAntiMedia.org,
To comply with the 2005 Real ID Act, which the U.S. government has been slowly implementing for the past decade, citizens in a number of different U.S. states will now be forced to obtain a passport if they want to board an airplane – even for domestic flights.
The Department of Homeland Security and representatives with the U.S. Customs and Border Protection have declined to comment on why certain states have been singled out, but starting in 2016, residents of New York, Wisconsin, Louisiana, Minnesota, New Hampshire, and American Samoa will need a passport to fly domestically. All other states will still be able to use their state-issued driver’s licenses and IDs — for now, at least.