Do I need a passport to drive into Canada?
I know this has probably been covered before but I couldn't find it using the search feature. We have gotten conflicting information about this from different sources. We plan on traveling from Missou...
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free radical wrote:JaxDad wrote:ljr wrote:am1958 wrote:
Never travel internationally without a passport...
X2. In a former job that involved a lot of travel to and from Canada and the Caribbean the company lawyers gave that advice. If you enter another country on a drivers license it’s a courtesy of that country. If you use a passport, all sorts of treaties and international laws apply. If you have any unexpected problems while there, that’s a big deal.
That’s just a little silly.
You don’t stop being an American just because you don’t have a passport in your pocket. The treaties and international agreements and rules of law are based on your citizenship, not the documents themselves.
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True,,however how would you prove being American without pasport?
Driver licence can be easily forged by any smart criminal..
Passport not so much..
Take your passport every time when traveling out of the country and avoid unecesary problems..
There was a case of some jogger on the news recently in BC who crossed the US border accidentaly without any ID or passport,,and spend couple weeks locked up in US jail bc she couldnt prove who she was..
Unusual but very true,,Customs people are very strict lately..
Secure drivers license, birth certificate and photo drivers license or other Government issued photo ID.
A genuine, but stolen, passport is easily, and fairly regularly altered by criminals too, that’s WHY they’re stolen in the first place.
Experts will tell you Canadian passports are probably the most desired, and therefore expensive, amongst criminals since we’re such a diverse nation nobody looks ‘out of place’ with a Canadian passport.
The gal who ‘accidentally’ jogged into Washington from BC was a French citizen in Canada as a tourist, the problem according to the CBC story was NOT that she didn’t have a passport with her.
The story says “Roman said she was able to contact her mother, Christiane Ferne, who rushed to the detention centre to provide officers with documents including her passport and study permits.
Ferne said workers on site told her she had to present the documents to Immigration Canada to determine if Roman was eligible to be discharged back to Canada.
Roman was held in custody for two weeks before immigration officials on both sides of the border confirmed she was allowed back into Canada. Then she was transferred back into B.C.”
