Re:DHS Suspends Global Entry, Trusted Traveler Programs for ...
by hapless on Thursday February 06, 2020 @01:56AM
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This isn’t a REAL ID matter. REAL ID is orthogonal.
NYS is refusing access to their “normal” non-REAL ID databases, and it bothers someone in the executive branch.
Notably, for Global Entry, you already need a passport - which supersedes the ID value of your state DL in every imaginable way
No NYS applicant is asking the federal government to rely on a drivers license. The government has just chosen to tie other things to the drivers license to further their own private tantrums
NYS is refusing access to their “normal” non-REAL ID databases, and it bothers someone in the executive branch.
Notably, for Global Entry, you already need a passport - which supersedes the ID value of your state DL in every imaginable way
No NYS applicant is asking the federal government to rely on a drivers license. The government has just chosen to tie other things to the drivers license to further their own private tantrums