The Real ID Act is a federal law in the United States. It was passed back in 2005 by the United States government. The purpose of the Real ID Act was to increase the security of the United States, which is why the Secretary of Homeland Security is directly involved with this act.

If you want the long winded version of what the Real ID Act is, it imposes certain security, authentication, and issuance procedures standards for the state driver’s licenses and state ID cards, for them to be accepted by the federal government for official purposes (when I said that the Secretary of Homeland Secretary is directly involved with this act, it is because that is the person who defines official purposes).

So, what were some of the changes that resulted from the introduction of this act. Well, we can run through some of the more significant ones. The act changed Visa limits for temporary workers and nurses, as well as citizens of Australia. Another change was to create new national standards for state-issued driver licenses and non-driver identification cards.

As with any act of this nature (which creates significant changes to the established standards), this act created a lot of controversy among people. Not only did it create controversy among average citizens of the United States, but it also created controversy among individuals from other countries, as well as among the men and women in Washington who represent all of us.