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Darnit. need a passport to go to Canada.

waggy

waggy

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This weekend The family and I will be in Shelby Michigan. about 30ish miles from the Canadian boarder.

The kids want to take a trip to Canada just to say they did it. New laws now say you need a damn passport. No way we will get them in time. bummer

DAMN terrorist!
 
New laws? What do you mean by new? As far as I can remember I've needed a passport to leave the country.
 
As I understand it, going to Canada without a passport isn't a big problem, it's getting back into the US that might be troublesome.
 
waggy said:
This weekend The family and I will be in Shelby Michigan. about 30ish miles from the Canadian boarder.

The kids want to take a trip to Canada just to say they did it. New laws now say you need a damn passport. No way we will get them in time. bummer

DAMN terrorist!
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Don't blame Canada!!!!
They are playing by your rules.
 
gorcorps said:
New laws? What do you mean by new? As far as I can remember I've needed a passport to leave the country.
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You used to be able to go to\from Canada with only a state ID or birth certificate.

Honestly I've never really understood the change. If you really want to sneak in there is plenty of un-patrolled boarder and lakes that you could cross. The new laws are more feel good that something that would deter dedicated terrorists
 
gorcorps said:
New laws? What do you mean by new? As far as I can remember I've needed a passport to leave the country.
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Not true. Montreal was about an hour or so from where I went to school in NY. Made many trips there and back without a passport. This was sometime around 2007/8ish.
 
Exterous said:
You used to be able to go to\from Canada with only a state ID or birth certificate.

Honestly I've never really understood the change. If you really want to sneak in there is plenty of un-patrolled boarder and lakes that you could cross. The new laws are more feel good than something that would deter dedicated terrorists
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We're quite good at legislating that kind of stuff.
 
Insomniator said:
How do people not have passports?
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why should we? Up until a few years ago when i wanted to go to Canada I would just go. My License was enough.

It's not like we travel out of the US often. NO real reason to. The US has enough to see.

also traveling overseas with 2 kids? no thanks.
 
Shelby, Michigan? Is there more than one? Google says you're several hours from the border.

Edit. Apparently shelby village is not the same as shelby township.
 
When I went up to Canada back in 1974 we did not need a passport either way. Just a couple or questions at the border and I think that was on the way back into New York
 
The change wasn't "a few years ago"-it was a decade or longer. You used to be able to go to Canada, Mexico and certain Caribbean countries without a passport. That was done away with as part of the Homeland Security Act changes.

Back in the sixties I went to Niagara Falls as a kid. All we needed to cross the border was a quarter to put in the turnstile. I had to break down and renew my passport for my last trip to Canada.
 
The first time I went was in Aug 2000, I know for sure we needed a passport then. We were crossing in by the Niagara Falls.
 
BoberFett said:
As I understand it, going to Canada without a passport isn't a big problem, it's getting back into the US that might be troublesome.
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I did it 4 years ago with the wife and kids.

my daughter lives in El Paso, she goes into mexico nearly every weekend and has no problems getting back into the country with no passport.
 
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