Proposed new driver’s licenses with embedded radio chips for the U.S. state of Ohio reportedly will wait years for approval

According to a news publisher covering Cleveland, The Plain Dealer, legislators in Ohio approved the development of digital IDs in April. 

The enhanced document would broadcast a unique code and biometric data that border guards for a small selection of nations could receive to identify the bearer remotely. 

The goal is to speed border transits via land and at seaports when traveling to Canada, Mexico and some Caribbean Sea nations. Editors for Cleveland.com report that they have not been able to get details about why federal approval will take so long. They were told it could be a multi-year process.