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The standards and regulations surrounding REAL ID compliance in the United States.
ICE policy and practice in 2025 treats a narrow set of federal and state-issued documents—most centrally the U.S. passport and formal naturalization/citizenship certificates—as the clearest, probative...
Nineteen U.S. states, plus the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico, currently permit some or all undocumented immigrants to obtain driver’s licenses or driving privilege cards, according to multiple ...
A federal REAL ID framework requires state-issued driver’s licenses to meet security standards to be accepted for boarding commercial flights and entering certain federal facilities; non‑REAL ID cards...
Tribal identification cards can serve as official documentary evidence in some federal and state programs—but they are not universally sufficient to prove U.S. citizenship on their own, and acceptance...
Five U.S. states — Washington, Michigan, Minnesota, New York and Vermont — currently issue Enhanced Driver’s Licenses (EDLs), and federal authorities treat those EDLs as acceptable alternatives to REA...
Lawful permanent residents are best served by keeping their Permanent Resident Card (Form I-551, “green card”) on hand as the primary federal proof of status, with temporary I-551 stamps or Form I-94 ...
Since 2023 there is policy-level clarity from DHS components that the U.S. passport card is an acceptable form of identity for federal purposes — notably the Transportation Security Administration and...