Thanks for the advice, everyone. I think I lost the ID at Whole Foods. I've been back but they do not have it. I pulled my ID and my debit card out of my wallet to run a quick errand. When I was paying for the groceries, noticed I didn't have the ID in my pocket.

I am white. I have a birth certificate. I have a SSN card. I do have two other photo IDs: one student and one from work. I have long hair in both and have since cut my hair very short, so I hope that doesn't throw them off. Plus everything else that is typically in my wallet.

I am going to give it a try. Though I am intrigued by those who say I can get a printout from the DMV online. I cannot locate this feature anywhere on the DC DMV page. Any more advice on this? Thanks!

Yes I've done this, out of both DCA and LGA-- accidentally left my DL at home. Allow extra time at security. Helped that I was with my husband and kids. I am Asian. I showed them a work photo ID (not govt issued) and credit cards.

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Anonymous wrote:p.s. Ignore the people here who say it can't be done. It CAN be done, at least for domestic flights.

It will not work for international flights as you need a passport. No passport, no flight

Everyone knows this.

EXTRA TIME is all you need.

Bring anything you think might help.

If you have a student ID and social security card you might be able to pull it off. Can you push back your flight?

I did it once after losing my ID on vacation. Allow extra time. Bring extra sources of ID like credit card or work Id.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Are you white?

This. I assume all PPs who have done it were. Sadly.

+1

+2

My Indian American Dh was not allowed on our flight back home with our kids and I from California because he lost his Driver's License while there, they had to run a bunch of checks and he got on the next flight back.

He also 99% of the time get's pulled for the "random" extra security screening.

I'm also Indian American but get much less slack since I'm female. I feel sad for the crap my two sons will have to deal with as they get older.

Op- The DMV will send you an electronic copy of your driver's license that you can print and take with you.

Oh for Pete's sake, I am a white middle aged woman and I routinely get pulled for extra screening--and even did when I was traveling solo with my kids when they were young.

Please stop, it's people like you that make white people look so clueless and arrogant.

Technically you are able to fly without ID if you submit to additional screening (a fuller search pat down etc.)

Anonymous wrote:I did it 10 yrs ago & im not white. My flight was just to Canada & had no probs going out. On the return, US border control agent made me sing the Star Spangled banner. Loud. I was allowed to fly even though I'd forgotten half the words.

Note that that worked then because you did not need a passport to return to the US back then. Now you do, even from Canada; so it would not work now. You cannot travel internationally and return to the US without a US passport.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Are you white?

This. I assume all PPs who have done it were. Sadly.

+1

+2

My Indian American Dh was not allowed on our flight back home with our kids and I from California because he lost his Driver's License while there, they had to run a bunch of checks and he got on the next flight back.

He also 99% of the time get's pulled for the "random" extra security screening.

I'm also Indian American but get much less slack since I'm female. I feel sad for the crap my two sons will have to deal with as they get older.

Op- The DMV will send you an electronic copy of your driver's license that you can print and take with you.

Oh for Pete's sake, I am a white middle aged woman and I routinely get pulled for extra screening--and even did when I was traveling solo with my kids when they were young.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Are you white?

This. I assume all PPs who have done it were. Sadly.

+1

+2

My Indian American Dh was not allowed on our flight back home with our kids and I from California because he lost his Driver's License while there, they had to run a bunch of checks and he got on the next flight back.

He also 99% of the time get's pulled for the "random" extra security screening.

I'm also Indian American but get much less slack since I'm female. I feel sad for the crap my two sons will have to deal with as they get older.

Op- The DMV will send you an electronic copy of your driver's license that you can print and take with you.

Anonymous wrote:p.s. Ignore the people here who say it can't be done. It CAN be done, at least for domestic flights.

It will not work for international flights as you need a passport. No passport, no flight

p.s. Ignore the people here who say it can't be done. It CAN be done, at least for domestic flights.

yup. I've done it. They ask you a bunch of questions. Go an extra half hour or hour early.

But if you have prescription medication with your name on it, bring that. They might take it.

Some TSA agents might just decide you have some nerve tryin'a fly with no ID.

Change your flight, for crying out loud.