25 Ways to Prove Your Identity at TSA Without a REAL ID

Download our list of 25 unusual secondary documents you can use at TSA.

We love hotdogs & rotisserie chickens as much as the next person but please stop telling people their Costco card counts as a REAL ID because it absolutely does not. - Transportation Security Administration

Can You Really Use a Costco Card at TSA?

While TSA doesn’t accept Costco cards as valid government ID, they do accept them as part of a secondary document stack used to verify your identity and bypass the IVCC process entirely. Please find our list of unusual secondary documents you can use at TSA below.

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