After years of delays, May 7th is the deadline to get your real ID. It's the realization of the Real ID Act, which was passed by Congress back in 2005.

After years of delays, May 7th is the deadline to get your real ID. It's the realization of the Real ID Act, which was passed by Congress back in 2005.

After years of delays, May 7th is the deadline to get your real ID. It's the realization of the Real ID Act, which was passed by Congress back in 2005.

After years of delays, May 7th is the deadline to get your real ID. It's the realization of the Real ID Act, which was passed by Congress back in 2005.

After years of delays, May 7th is the deadline to get your real ID. It's the realization of the Real ID Act, which was passed by Congress back in 2005.

After years of delays, May 7th is the deadline to get your real ID. It's the realization of the Real ID Act, which was passed by Congress back in 2005.

After years of delays, May 7th is the deadline to get your real ID. It's the realization of the Real ID Act, which was passed by Congress back in 2005.

The really real deadline to make your state-issued identified card, or driver’s license Real ID compliant will be here before you know it. And you won’t be fly domestically after 2025 without it.

FILE - In this photo taken April 6, 2016, a sign at the federal courthouse in Tacoma, Wash., is shown to inform visitors of the federal government's REAL ID act. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, file ...

The REAL ID Act, originally passed by Congress in 2005 as a response to the 9/11 terrorist attacks, is intended to "establish minimum security standards for state-issued driver licenses and IDs to ...

The REAL ID Act, which was passed by Congress in 2005, enacted the 9/11 Commission’s recommendation that the federal government enhance security standards for identification.