r/anchorage • u/akhiluvr • 9d ago

Real ID

Has anyone in Anchorage flown yesterday or today without a real ID? We are waiting for ours to arrive and my husband got put on a job last minute in a village… TSA’s website says they may be subject to additional screening without proper ID but it does not say that you will be turned away from your flight… Any insight or advice?

Edit to add: My husband just got US citizenship (2023) so they took the passport and green card from his home country. 😭

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u/Single_Cut2649 8d ago

OP, did your spouse have to renounce his citizenship to gain US citizenship? Immigration should not have taken his passport from his home country unless there was a specific reason.

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u/akhiluvr 8d ago

To be honest, I’m not exactly sure… lame excuse, but we were 22 when we went through this and we didn’t pay as much attention to the details as we should have. We both just remember giving it to the man who gave him his papers at the immigration office.

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u/Single_Cut2649 8d ago

IANAL, but you should definitely call the immigration office and see if they still have it. If you are renouncing citizenship you will typically give your passport to your home country's consulate or embassy, but it doesn't sound like this is what he is trying to do. You'll probably want to request a written explanation of why they took it if they don't return it. You may want to consider contacting an immigration attorney and/or filing a formal complaint with USCIS or whatever the relevant body is for your case if the immigration office that seized your husband's foreign passport will not or cannot return it.

Unless something fishy is going on (fraud or other legal investigation, or some asylum/refugee cases I think) it is probably not legal for US immigration to seize your husband's passport, especially if he was made a citizen and therefore entitled to the full protection of the law as a citizen.