What to know if you’re arriving at a U.S. airport without valid identification, like in the event that your wallet gets stolen during a trip
Plenty of things can go wrong while you’re on vacation. But a lost or stolen wallet is especially stressful — especially when that wallet contains the ID that you need to get on your return flight home.
But can you still get on a plane if you lost your wallet and ID? I turned to the Transportation Security Administration website for help. And upon safely returning home , I reached out to TSA press secretary R. Carter Langston for some more insight about what to do if you’re coming to the airport without valid identification.
But if you don’t have access to any of these forms of identification, then the TSA site says that you “may still be allowed to fly,” and the key word there is “may.” But Langston warned that being allowed to go through security without an ID is much more difficult if you are at your point of origin; that is, you’re leaving home and going away on vacation, and you still expect to return. In this case, the officer is more likely to send you home to retrieve some valid identification, and they will suggest that you reschedule your flight.
And I got to the Charleston International Airport a good four hours before my flight and went straight to a security officer at the check-in area. He escorted me to the security checkpoint, where another TSA officer followed the protocol outlined on the TSA site: She asked for my information, took my interim ID and police report, and checked in with a supervisor. To be honest, she wasn’t sure at first that the documentation I was presenting was enough to get me through security.
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