Despite what some TSA agents claim, New York's enhanced license meets REAL ID requirements: Your Sto

[@sparkle11971]

Enhanced ID is even better. It has the basics that real id has and more you also have to prove you're an American citizen. And it's more expensive. Those workers need more education for sure

[@bigred9428]

Yeah, but it doesn't DO anything. You can get out of Canada, but apparently not into Canada.

[@mariothompson8955]

@@bigred9428 the only bad thing about enhance ID you can drive or take a bus to Canada and back. But you can’t go on a plane to Canada with that ID. You have to get a passport.

[@jppan2261]

I have a Michigan EDL (no star but has US flag). Was flying out of BTW last month and asked every TSA about my license. Most of them never even heard of an EDL. I hope they train agents better.

[@rebeccawayne1758]

Your license says enhanced correct? We are trained to accept that however we have a huge list of ID's we accept so sometimes remembering them all is difficult. But then I learned about enhanced IDs years before I worked for TSA.

[@eddyvideostar]

@@rebeccawayne1758 To Rebecca Wayne: Why not write or print the list and have it for reference? No one cares about your memory.

[@rebeccawayne1758]

@@eddyvideostar TSA is supposed to have books that list most of the IDs that are accepted however government IDs (FBI, CIA, Judges, state reps, etc) aren't in them. Making a list is actually against protocol.

[@ColoringKaria]

New Yorker 4 years after this was aired. Spoiler tsa is still giving NYS residents drama over this.

[@glassman1533]

Of course, TSA agents are the same geniuses who have refused to allow residents of Washington, DC to board a plane with their driver's license, because they didn't recognize that the District of Columbia is part of the US.

[@bnalive5077]

What else do you expect from the US government?

[@KitaKatt1988]

Trust me they will not tell you this is the reason! KY did this 3 years ago and I have one

[@MikeJ2023]

You know something tells me these people won’t be flying in 2020.

[@eddyvideostar]

Mike J: No one will be flying in 2020 anymore.

[@kerron_]

it has the same machine readable code similar to a passport

[@eddyvideostar]

Kerron M: Maybe people can get and bring a passport card as well as the EDL. This should quell doubt.

[@teglizzy5428]

@@eddyvideostar is that a non driver I’d they showing in the background?

[@rcsoco]

@@eddyvideostar an Enhanced is a Passport card and Real ID combined. It has the passport card chip built into it

[@FasilZelekeGurmu-z6s]

GHT 24

[@gonstotwriter]

They've pushed back the Real ID date to 1 Oct. 2021 due to pandemic.

[@teglizzy5428]

Is that a non driver ID card

[@Jimfromearthoo7]

These are the same rocket scientists (TSA agents) that are screening us?😛

[@teglizzy5428]

Are those id non driver I’d ?

[@SB-qm5wg]

They're Post Officer workers really

[@kennardsloan3052]

Can you drive with a real id card 🚗🚗🚗🚗🚗

[@teglizzy5428]

@@kennardsloan3052 no it’s a real I’d is basically a non driver I’d

[@ColoringKaria]

That’s not fair. Postal workers usually mean well.

[@bigred9428]

Why do I get the feeling that the real driving force behind this is to have everyone get a passport?

[@ColoringKaria]

Why shouldn’t they?

[@qalinlecilmi947]

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[@onYaFace2023]

gosh

[@jhyacinthocorner2269]

This is an infringement of the right to travel. You can’t denied someone the right to travel if they don’t have an enhance ID. This is done for profit nothing to do with security.

[@gabehcuodsuoitneterp203]

What a mess. Abolish the TSA and DHS.

[@marcodeluca4068]

So you can not travel by plane with your drivers license and need federal issue or enhancement license what is this Soviet Russia ????

[@rcsoco]

Its because illegal aliens are now given drivers licenses, without really knowing who they are...this is meant to ban them from flying unless they have a passport

[@bigred9428]

You need a Real ID, which just checks all the boxes that the Federal Government deemed will keep us a little safer, and hopefully, no planes will be hijacked again. Enhanced goes a step further and confirms that you are a US citizen, but not all states have them. That is the reason for this news piece -- which is already 3 years old, so I am sure that they've cleared any problems up.

[@Forbidden-Pre-Workout]

That’s why u have a passport card.

[@ERICK-di1yz]

So I will still need to have a passport even with real ID or enhanced id?

[@tripplebrown2132]

@@ERICK-di1yz you can use it as a real Id

[@davidortiz3094]

No. People need to be educated. Difference with enhanced is that you can use it to get back into the country instead of a passport. Also can be used to go to Canada, Mexico & Bahamas.

[@ERICK-di1yz]

@@davidortiz3094 so can I leave the country with that? And do I even need to take outba passport if I have the enhanced

[@rcsoco]

@@ERICK-di1yz only land or sea crossings, not to fly out of country, passport needed for that....not the passsport card

[@marcodeluca4068]

News like this purposely leaving out that you can use your passport or a regular license is never mentioned. This is very racially motivated

[@jesuscazarez5737]

This is a joke that’s what this is

[@ColoringKaria]

Enhanced id is valid. You should not need to wait 9 months for a passport to be able to fly domestically.