Notice2025-21830
TSA Confirm.ID User Fee
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Published
December 3, 2025
Effective
December 3, 2025
Issuing agencies
Homeland Security DepartmentTransportation Security Administration
Abstract
On November 20, 2025, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) published a notice announcing the launch of a fee- funded modernized alternative identity verification program for individuals who present at the TSA checkpoint without the required acceptable form of identification (AFOID), such as a REAL ID or passport. TSA is announcing the rebranding of the modernized program now identified as "TSA Confirm.ID". To address the government- incurred costs of operating the new program, including an updated review and revision of relevant population estimates and costs, TSA sets the TSA Confirm.ID program fee for individuals who choose to use the program to $45.00.
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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 230 (Wednesday, December 3, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 55754-55755]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-21830]
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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY
Transportation Security Administration
TSA Confirm.ID User Fee
AGENCY: Transportation Security Administration, DHS.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: On November 20, 2025, the Transportation Security
Administration (TSA) published a notice announcing the launch of a fee-
funded modernized alternative identity verification program for
individuals who present at the TSA checkpoint without the required
acceptable form of identification (AFOID), such as a REAL ID or
passport. TSA is announcing the rebranding of the modernized program
now identified as ``TSA Confirm.ID''. To address the government-
incurred costs of operating the new program, including an updated
review and revision of relevant population estimates and costs, TSA
sets the TSA Confirm.ID program fee for individuals who choose to use
the program to $45.00.
DATES: This notice is effective December 3, 2025.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: ORCA Comms, TSA/RCA, Identity
Management, Transportation Security Administration, 6595 Springfield
Center Drive, Springfield, VA 20598-6047; 866-289-9673; or email at
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Abbreviations and Terms Used in This Document
AFOID--Acceptable Form of Identification
TDC--Travel Document Checker
TSA--Transportation Security Administration
I. Background
On November 20, 2025, TSA published a notice announcing the
establishment of a modernized alternative identity verification program
for individuals who do not present the required AFOID at the TSA
checkpoint (November Notice).\1\ TSA's primary method of identity
verification is matching the information on an individual's travel
documentation with a TSA AFOID that the individual presents at the
checkpoint.\2\ TSA expects individuals to present an AFOID at the
Travel Document Checker (TDC). For individuals who do not present an
AFOID, TSA may provide the individual with an opportunity to
participate in an alternative identification process to access the
sterile area of the airport.
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\1\ 90 FR 52427 (November 20, 2025).
\2\ TSA provides a list of acceptable IDs on its website
(<a href="https://www.tsa.gov/travel/security-screening/identification">https://www.tsa.gov/travel/security-screening/identification</a>).
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This notice announces the rebranding of the modernized program
announced in the November Notice, now identified as ``TSA Confirm.ID''.
The rebranding does not change the parameters of the program.
Registering for the TSA Confirm.ID program and payment of the non-
refundable fee does not guarantee that an individual's identity will be
verified or that the individual will be provided access to the sterile
area of the airport. Individuals who verify their identity using the
TSA Confirm.ID program may still be subject to additional screening or
experience delays.
The TSA Confirm.ID program is a registered traveler program.\3\ TSA
is required to collect a non-refundable fee to cover the aggregate
costs of any registered traveler program and impose the fee by notice
published in the Federal Register.\4\ The fee is designed to fully
recover TSA's costs of providing the TSA Confirm.ID program--including
the initial development and deployment of the program--to individuals
who choose to participate. TSA will not refund the fee, in whole or in
part, to individuals whose identities are verified or to individuals
whose identities are not verified or who are unable to enter the
sterile area based upon the results of the identity verification
process.
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\3\ See Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act,
2006, Public Law 109-90, sec. 540, (119 Stat. 2064, 2088-89 (Oct.
18, 2005)) (codified at 49 U.S.C. 114 note).
\4\ Id.
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II. Updated Fee Announcement
In the November Notice, TSA stated that it would impose and collect
a fee of $18.00 per person at the time an individual registers and
requests alternative identity verification using TSA-approved payment
methods. TSA is updating the fee associated with the TSA Confirm.ID
based on review and revision of relevant population estimates and
costs. The Fee Report now includes a revised estimate of the population
likely to use the TSA Confirm.ID program, the impact of the fee on
individuals' decisions to obtain an AFOID instead of paying the fee and
TSA's implementation costs, which affect the total fee necessary to
recover the costs of the program. Using the updated estimates and a
revised methodology that accounts for usage rates based on similar
historical and implementation trends, TSA recalculated overall costs
and determined that the fee necessary to cover the costs of the TSA
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program is slightly more than $45.00. TSA is rounding down to a set fee
of $45.00. The $45.00 fee applies per individual, per 10-day use
(provided the individual can successfully verify their identity for
each use during the 10-day period).\5\
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\5\ The same period of use was provided in the November Notice.
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As noted above, TSA has updated the fee development report that
provides a detailed discussion of the TSA Confirm.ID program's expected
costs, updated expected population, and updated fee determination. A
copy of the fee development report can be accessed at <a href="http://TSA.gov">TSA.gov</a>. In
addition to this notice, TSA will publish additional information
regarding the TSA Confirm.ID program at <a href="http://TSA.gov">TSA.gov</a>. TSA may update this
fee and availability of the program in the future through publication
of a notice in the Federal Register. Collection of the fee will begin
when TSA announces that individuals may register for the TSA Confirm.ID
program at <a href="http://TSA.gov">TSA.gov</a>.
Ha Nguyen McNeill,
Senior Official Performing the Duties of the Administrator,
Transportation Security Administration.
[FR Doc. 2025-21830 Filed 12-1-25; 4:15 pm]
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