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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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.
That is extremely naive. The problem is not that you are still a U.S. citizen. The problem is that you have to prove you are a U.S. citizen. They can and will hold you until either you prove that fact, or until they choose, at their leisure, to investigate your claim to prove it to themselves.
