Concern about holiday travelers from states that are not in compliance with the REAL ID Act prompts the Department of Homeland Security to extend the material compliance deadline. Without the extension, travelers without REAL ID would not have been allowed to board U.S. flights.
– Reality trumped regulations Dec. 18 as the Department of Homeland Security
extended a deadline that would have required all travelers boarding airplanes
to have driver’s licenses that comply with the federal anti-fraud standards of
the REAL ID law.

quot;In order to ensure that the millions …