The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is pushing the deadline for Real IDs by two years, meaning Americans will have until 2025 to get their new identification cards.
The DHS announced in a press release Dec. 5 it’s moving the Real ID deadline to May 2025 citing the “lingering impacts” of the COVID-19 pandemic as part of the reason.
Originally set for enforcement in October 2020, the Real ID deadline was extended first to 2021, then to 2023 due to pandemic delays.
In the press release, the DHS said progress over the past two years issuing Real IDs has been “significantly hindered by state driver’s licensing agencies having to work through the backlogs created by the pandemic.”…