Remember 2005? Throwing around quotes from Wedding Crashers, hollering along to “Since U Been Gone” with Kelly Clarkson on the radio, hearing that some dude named Barack Obama was being sworn in to Congress as the newbie senator from Illinois? One more thing happened that year—and we don’t mean the Tom Cruise–Oprah couch incident, though that was major. Congress also passed the Real ID Act.
Now, two decades later, it is *finally* going into effect. On May 7, 2025, anyone flying a domestic flight in the United States will need to show an approved piece of identification, and the old-fashioned driver’s license won’t cut it.
Why the two-decade delay?
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