For example, driver privilege card applicants can't get a Real ID license because they aren't citizens. Fun fact: Since Jan. 1, the Virginia DMV has issued about 15,000-20,000 Real IDs per week.

Are residents of D.C., Maryland and Virginia ready? If you don't have your REAL ID yet, do you need one, and when is the deadline? Enforcement of REAL ID requirements begins on May 7, 2025.

A deadline is quickly approaching for air travelers to have an updated Real ID. On May 7, anyone looking to board a plane, or ...

Some West Virginia drivers licenses will no longer be valid as identification to board planes, even when flying domestically, but that doesn't mean everyone needs rush to the DMV before the deadline.

(WCYB) — The Real ID deadline is now just two months away. That means a simple driver's license will no longer be an acceptable form of identification to board a domestic flight. Beginning May 7 ...

visit dhs.gov/real-id. Appointments may be scheduled to complete a West Virginia REAL ID driver's license application by visiting go.wv.gov/realidheadstart.

Originally, the law mandated the switch to REAL IDs by 2008, but that date has been pushed back year after year. Now the deadline is only a few weeks away.