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I have both. I remember having to get the passport, and remember each renewal (getting pictures, collecting the documents, finding the forms, sending them in, w

I have both. I remember having to get the passport, and remember each renewal (getting pictures, collecting the documents, finding the forms, sending them in, waiting to get them back). I have Real ID as well and have no memory of actually getting it, which makes me think it wasn't very hard. Having to carry a passport card within the US sounds harder than just carrying my license. Especially when the passport card has all sorts of warnings about keeping it in the paper sleeve it comes with. It acts like it needs to be treated with kid gloves, and not just thrown in a wallet, like a license.

Benanov 2y ago
I/we have the opposite problem. My wife paid extra and got a REAL ID, I resisted. I just got a passport instead (as did she). My wife, when she renewed her DL this time, got a drivers' license stamped "NOT FOR REAL ID PURPOSES" because she didn't bring in her identity documents AGAIN to the DMV. Screw that. The passport lasts twice as long as a driver's license, and we're going to carry those anyway, so...why pay extra and have to remember all these documents? Passport renewal is easier.