🇺🇸 United States
The United States has no national ID card or single federal eID. Identity is fragmented across the federal Login.gov sign-in service, state-issued mobile driver's licenses, and the federally issued ePassport for travel.
Login.gov is the public's shared account for secure, private access to participating U.S. government services. Operated by the GSA, it provides multi-factor authentication and, for eligible programs, identity verification. It is not a national ID; it is a login and identity-proofing service used across federal and state agencies. A September 2026 executive order made it the authentication service for America.gov, the new single entry point to federal services, and directed agencies to complete their Login.gov integration.
See how it works →A mobile driver's license is a digital version of a state-issued license or ID stored in a phone's digital wallet, conforming to the ISO/IEC 18013-5 standard for privacy-preserving in-person presentation. Each participating state issues its own mDL, so there is no single national mDL. The TSA accepts mDLs from participating states at select airport checkpoints.
See how it works →The U.S. ePassport is a passport book with an embedded contactless chip storing the data-page information and a digital photograph as a biometric identifier. Issued by the Department of State, it complies with ICAO international standards for machine-readable travel documents. The Next Generation Passport, issued since 2021, adds a polycarbonate data page for stronger security.
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