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re: Real ID - La. Driver's License question

Posted on 11/29/22 at 8:25 am to
Posted by Kracka
Lafayette, Louisiana
Member since Aug 2004
40741 posts
Posted on 11/29/22 at 8:25 am to
Side note, I just found out recently that my TWIC card gets me into the TSA Pre Check line at airports....
Posted by Hangit
The Green Swamp
Member since Aug 2014
38979 posts
Posted on 11/29/22 at 8:26 am to
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Mark of the Beast. Even if it does become mandatory no way I’m getting it.


Posted by tigerinthebueche
Member since Oct 2010
36791 posts
Posted on 11/29/22 at 8:27 am to
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The real ID isn't worth it if you have a passport.


IF you have a passport.
Posted by redstick13
Lower Saxony
Member since Feb 2007
38422 posts
Posted on 11/29/22 at 8:28 am to
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Why would you need your passport here?


I fly often. Sometimes out of the country. I got in the habit of having it for travel.
Posted by MikeBRLA
Baton Rouge
Member since Jun 2005
16448 posts
Posted on 11/29/22 at 8:45 am to
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Who wants to carry their passport if they don't have to?


You can get a passport card that fits in your wallet for like $30. I always get the card in addition to the larger passport book. You can’t use the card for overseas travel but it’s nice to have as a backup. And of course it’s realID compliant.
Posted by Python
Member since May 2008
6258 posts
Posted on 11/29/22 at 8:53 am to
I just renewed my license a few months ago and didn’t even think about the new Real ID thing. Now I’ll have to go back in a few months and do it all over again. Wonderful.
Posted by Tomatocantender
Boot
Member since Jun 2021
4686 posts
Posted on 11/29/22 at 8:57 am to
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You can get a passport card that fits in your wallet for like $30.


Posted by Buck Wylde
Member since Jun 2019
472 posts
Posted on 11/29/22 at 8:58 am to
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If you have a passport you can use just that to get your REAL ID or just use the passport when you fly.


True, but I dint have any of that stuff at the time and didn't want to go home to get it. I usually just rely on my passport.
Posted by TigerTatorTots
The Safeshore
Member since Jul 2009
80744 posts
Posted on 11/29/22 at 9:17 am to
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Beginning May 3, 2023, every air traveler 18 years of age and older will need a REAL ID-compliant driver’s license, state-issued enhanced driver’s license, or another acceptable form of ID to fly within the United States.
That has been delayed for damn near a decade and will continue to get pushed back
Posted by TeddyPadillac
Member since Dec 2010
25327 posts
Posted on 11/29/22 at 9:25 am to
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Yeah. Go try to get your brake tag with that or hand it over at the speed trap.



Why would you use your passport for those?
You simply take your phone out and show them your license on the LA Wallet app.


I don't even know where my license is to be honest. I carry my passport when i fly, and anything else i use the LA Wallet app.
Posted by NYNolaguy1
Member since May 2011
20857 posts
Posted on 11/29/22 at 9:26 am to
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Mark of the Beast. Even if it does become mandatory no way I’m getting it.


So the real id is the mark of the beast and not the multiple rfid chips in your wallet that scream every time you walk in a store? Or the cell phone that tracks your every move and word?
Posted by MasterJSchroeder
Berwick
Member since Nov 2020
961 posts
Posted on 11/29/22 at 9:29 am to
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Your post from 2005 finally posted.


Yeah Yeah. I know. May happen, may not. I Don't really care either way
Posted by Chalkywhite84
New orleans
Member since Dec 2016
26942 posts
Posted on 11/29/22 at 9:32 am to
Does anyone know if i actually have to go to the dmv to get a new license?

They don't just do the online thing anymore?
Posted by 92Tiger
Member since Dec 2015
588 posts
Posted on 11/29/22 at 9:49 am to
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You can get a passport card that fits in your wallet for like $30. I always get the card in addition to the larger passport book. You can’t use the card for overseas travel but it’s nice to have as a backup. And of course it’s realID compliant.




And, the passport card does not show your home address. No need giving that info up everytime someone wants to id you. Especially so if you have a college age daughter who hits the bars and has to show ID to whatever derelict the bar hires to work the door.
Posted by Napoleon
Kenna
Member since Dec 2007
69045 posts
Posted on 11/29/22 at 11:16 am to
You can get the card for your wallet.
I will agree the passport is a pain and easily gets bent in your pocket.
Posted by AstroCajun
Lafayette
Member since Aug 2006
457 posts
Posted on 11/29/22 at 11:18 am to
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The real ID isn't worth it if you have a passport.


The cost is the same. They don't charge any more for it than the standard ID. So the minimal extra paperwork is worth it not to have to rely on my passport to fly domestically.
Posted by bulldog95
North Louisiana
Member since Jan 2011
20682 posts
Posted on 11/29/22 at 11:32 am to
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I’ve had one for 3 years now. It’s really not that hard to get. Just have to bring a few extra pieces of ID.


Got my DL renewed about 3 weeks ago. Lady at OMV asked if I wanted a real ID. Didn’t ask for any additional identification or anything. Just said it’ll be $$$ extra. That’s it.
Posted by OysterPoBoy
City of St. George
Member since Jul 2013
34857 posts
Posted on 11/29/22 at 11:33 am to
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The cost is the same


If you don’t factor in your soul.
Posted by redstick13
Lower Saxony
Member since Feb 2007
38422 posts
Posted on 11/29/22 at 11:36 am to
I'm fairly sure that I got COVID while at the DMV in February of 2020.
Posted by Tigers2010a
Member since Jul 2021
3627 posts
Posted on 11/29/22 at 11:40 am to
So why do we need a REAL ID again??? What is wrong with a drivers license such that we have to have a REAL ID?
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