The original post: /r/travel by /u/bjjeong on 2024-11-12 12:57:14.

Hello! My wife is in an interesting situation in which:

  • She does not have a driver’s license (she has lived in NYC all her life and never needed to drive)
  • She does not have a valid non-driver state ID (she has no excuse for this one 😂)
    • She has a DMV appointment today to apply for one
  • Her US passport expires in April 2025 (planning on expedited online renewal)
  • We have domestic travel coming up in 4 days, international travel in 7 weeks

Since my wife’s passport expires within 6 months of our international travel, our predicament is that we want to apply for her passport renewal as soon as possible in case there are delays. However, that means that her only valid form of ID becomes invalidated given that she does not have a valid form of state ID.

I realize that she will be given a temporary state ID after her DMV appointment, but from what I’m seeing online, it is not suitable for TSA ID requirements. I’m thinking that to be safe, we hold off on her passport renewal until we get back from our domestic travel so that her passport is valid.

However, I’m wondering if we could submit her passport renewal and still use her old passport for domestic travel? It seems that TSA accepts identification that has been expired for under 1 year, which I’m thinking applies to this case. I also know that we could technically not have either of these pieces of ID and have TSA verify her in other ways, but wanted to rule this out first.

I’ll be calling TSA today to check, but if anyone has any experience or knowledge on this, any insight would be appreciated!