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Vacationers who present up at airport safety with out a REAL ID will quickly have a brand new backup possibility, however it’ll come at a price.
The Transportation Safety Administration (TSA) introduced Thursday it’ll start rolling out its new ConfirmID program Feb. 1, permitting passengers with out a REAL ID, passport or different acceptable identification to try to proceed by safety for a $45 payment.
Beneath this system, TSA will conduct extra identification verification in an try to verify a traveler’s identification. Nevertheless, clearance shouldn’t be assured, the company warned.
“TSA ConfirmID can be an possibility for vacationers that don’t carry a REAL ID or different acceptable type of ID to the TSA checkpoint and nonetheless need to fly,” Adam Stahl, the senior official performing the duties of deputy administrator for TSA, mentioned in an announcement. “Impacted vacationers may have the choice to pay $45 and use the TSA ConfirmID course of.”
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Vacationers make their means by a TSA safety checkpoint at Logan Worldwide Airport in Boston. (Brian Snyder/Reuters)
Passengers utilizing ConfirmID ought to count on additional identification verification, extra screening and attainable delays, the company famous.
Vacationers who arrive at TSA checkpoints with out acceptable ID and haven’t already paid the payment will face extra delays and will danger lacking their flights, in accordance with the TSA.
“To keep away from delays or missed flights, all vacationers ought to receive a REAL ID or one other acceptable type of identification earlier than heading to the airport,” Stahl mentioned.
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An worker with the Transportation Safety Administration checks the paperwork of a traveler on the Hollywood Burbank Airport in Burbank, Calif., Oct. 1, 2025. (Daniel Cole/Reuters)
The $45 payment is designed to make sure that vacationers who fail to adjust to identification necessities, relatively than taxpayers, cowl the price of extra screening, in accordance with Stahl.
The REAL ID requirement, which applies to all U.S. air vacationers 18 and older, took impact in Might.
REAL IDs have a gold star within the higher right-hand nook, the TSA mentioned.
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A TSA agent wears a patch on his uniform. (Joe Raedle/Getty Pictures)
Acceptable options embrace U.S. passports, passport playing cards, state-issued enhanced driver’s licenses, sure cell driver’s licenses and different TSA-approved paperwork, in accordance with the company’s web site.
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Extra details about the ConfirmID program is obtainable at TSA’s web site.
The TSA didn’t instantly reply to FOX Enterprise’ request for remark.
