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Grayling813 wrote: ↑Mon Nov 11, 2019 11:57 am I received a notification letter from DPS on Saturday about my DL not being REAL ID compliant. The path to obtaining a REAL ID license if your doesn't expire until after Oct 1 2020 is to request a duplicate ID by mail or online for $10.00. (Online adds $1.00 fee for total of $11.00).
I requested a duplicate this morning online.

Would you mind confirming receipt of your duplicate with the star? I'd happily spend $22 for my wife and I not to have to sit through the DPS office madness IF I were certain that the results would be a REAL ID compliant card. What they SAY works and what DOES work may be two different things. Both my wife and I provided our birth certificates at one point so there should be no problem with them issuing the REAL ID

Sorry that I'm so skeptical.

I distinctly remember taking my State sealed birth certificate into DPS around 2008 for my DL renewal. I don't remember whether or not the DL that I got then had a star on it. The one that I just renewed does not. I gave up flying unless there was no choice a few years ago. My wife has two artifical knees and gets a pat down every time we fly regardless of the extra card she was given that says she has them. But we have relatives in another State and might need to fly on short notice. We have passports so I guess that would be the solution if we had to. I remember stories about Pennsylvania not being compliant and my wife giving her kin there a hard time because Texas was. I'd sure like to know what happened that neither of us have stars.