REAL ID deadline is coming up—are you ready?
LANSING, Mich. (WLNS) — The REAL ID deadline is coming up, and it may affect your next flight.
Beginning May 7, Michiganders will need to have a REAL ID-compliant document to fly domestically in the United States and enter any federal government buildings.
Michigan's old license design has a star in a gold circle, and the new license design has a star in a silhouette of Michigan.
State officials say 70% of Michigan's driver licenses and state IDs were REAL ID-compliant as of March 21, but for the 30% that aren't, you will need to visit the Secretary of State's office and present either your current license or ID, a valid passport or birth certificate—and a certified legal name change document if your name is different from your birth certificate.
Ingham County Clerk Barb Byrum says there are a few important notes to remember for Michiganders seeking to obtain a REAL ID:
'It's important that your viewers know that in order to obtain. A certified copy of a birth record. A certified copy of a marriage license. They had to have been born in the county of the county clerk that they're requesting that record for, or for the marriage, they have to have filed that marriage license in the county in which they are requesting that marriage license for, so that is something that they should keep in mind, because if they were born out of state or not, any of county, they are going to need to contact that county clerk and keep in mind that it will take some time to get those records, especially if they're out of state.'
After the May 7 deadline, Michiganders will still be able to change their license to a REAL ID, and Byrum says Michiganders must act fast in obtaining these legal documents in order to protect their future voting rights.
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