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Title: Passport for entering Canada from US?
Post by: SOB on July 08, 2004, 08:01:50 PM
A friend of mine said that a passport is now required to enter Canada from the US.  I found that kind of hard to believe, but with 9/11 and all...  Anyone know if this is the case?
Title: Passport for entering Canada from US?
Post by: Sixpence on July 08, 2004, 08:07:10 PM
Looks like the snowmobile trip ends at the border now.
Title: Passport for entering Canada from US?
Post by: ra on July 08, 2004, 08:18:45 PM
It's easy to get around.  Just enter from Syria and say you're a political refugee.
Title: Passport for entering Canada from US?
Post by: SOB on July 08, 2004, 08:21:36 PM
Hmm, what's the exit off of I-5 N to Syria?
Title: Passport for entering Canada from US?
Post by: Nash on July 08, 2004, 08:22:49 PM
Same thing here... you now need a passport to enter the states.

I liked it the old way... but...
Title: Passport for entering Canada from US?
Post by: SOB on July 08, 2004, 08:29:28 PM
Well, that seems kinda stupid given the number of places you can cross that have no guard stations.  Oh well, looks like passport or birth cert...
http://travel.state.gov/tips_canada.html
Title: Passport for entering Canada from US?
Post by: xrtoronto on July 08, 2004, 08:37:28 PM
I am not sure that it is true...one of my good friends who lives down the road from me has family in Virginia and San Diego. He has visited both in the past 6 months and I asked if border crossing was a problem and he replied no. He flew to San Diego and drove to Virginia.
As it turns out some family members of his are arriving this evening from the US to visit him. I will ask if they had to produce a passport at the border.
Hopefully the answer will be no.
Title: Passport for entering Canada from US?
Post by: SLO on July 08, 2004, 08:38:03 PM
now thats wierd
Title: Passport for entering Canada from US?
Post by: Nash on July 08, 2004, 08:38:40 PM
Actually I might have mispoken... I haven't driven over the border since 9/11. But flying there now requires a passport where before it didn't. Not sure actually if it's the same with driving.
Title: Passport for entering Canada from US?
Post by: Habu on July 08, 2004, 08:39:13 PM
You do not need a passport but you do need proof of birth and a couple of more pieces of ID like a drivers license and some other photo ID.

But that is only if they ask to see it. Most times they just ask you where you are from where you are going and for how long and then wave you in.
Title: Re: Passport for entering Canada from US?
Post by: anonymous on July 08, 2004, 10:31:19 PM
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Originally posted by SOB
A friend of mine said that a passport is now required to enter Canada from the US.  I found that kind of hard to believe, but with 9/11 and all...  Anyone know if this is the case?


just wear a bush=hitler shirt and a che the resistance hero hat and youll be a part of the govt up there overnight.
Title: Re: Re: Passport for entering Canada from US?
Post by: Nash on July 08, 2004, 10:35:41 PM
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Originally posted by anonymous
just wear a bush=hitler shirt and a che the resistance hero hat and youll be a part of the govt up there overnight.


hahahah but the only time anyone sees that garbage is in pictures posted on the internet of american protesters.
Title: Re: Passport for entering Canada from US?
Post by: Masherbrum on July 08, 2004, 10:38:06 PM
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Originally posted by SOB
A friend of mine said that a passport is now required to enter Canada from the US.  I found that kind of hard to believe, but with 9/11 and all...  Anyone know if this is the case?


Passport, or Birth Certifcate and Driver's license.  

Karaya
Title: Passport for entering Canada from US?
Post by: AWMac on July 08, 2004, 11:00:28 PM
Canada has Weapons of Mass Disruptions....


*John has a Long Mustache*....
Title: Passport for entering Canada from US?
Post by: Torque on July 09, 2004, 12:33:35 AM
They rarely ask to see any ID, just look like a tourist and say you're hitting a Casino.
Title: Passport for entering Canada from US?
Post by: SOB on July 09, 2004, 01:22:01 AM
I once got interrogated by a lady in the booth...I had a mini-van full of computer equipment and told her I was just headed to Canada for lunch.  I was up doing some IT work in out Bellingham, WA office with a co-worker and we though it'd be a good way to waste some time.  He swore up and down we'd get in Canada without any hassle, but would be ripped a new one on the way back in.  When we came back through on the US side, I told the guy we had just gone there for lunch...he just shook his head, gave a chuckle and waved us through.

The moral of the story: Canuck chicks are beetches! ;)
Title: Passport for entering Canada from US?
Post by: Chairboy on July 09, 2004, 01:22:37 AM
I had my surgery in Tijuana.  My wife and I drove down to San Diego airport, parked, and a guy with a new Suburban picked us up and drove us across the border to the doctor.  

We had our surgery, then he picked us up and drove us back across the border.  We only needed to show our licenses because we didn't leave the 'border zone' which stretches 30 miles south of the US-Mexico boundary.
Title: Passport for entering Canada from US?
Post by: lada on July 09, 2004, 02:35:09 AM
how much months untill you will need visa ?

rofl, enjoy freedom
Title: Passport for entering Canada from US?
Post by: SOB on July 09, 2004, 03:11:47 AM
Orel/Lada, if you were trying to do anything but look stupid, you didn't succeed.
Title: Passport for entering Canada from US?
Post by: lada on July 09, 2004, 03:42:01 AM
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Originally posted by SOB
Orel/Lada, if you were trying to do anything but look stupid, you didn't succeed.


im having fun how silly things you are able to tolerate in name of security...

People who travell between Us and Canada are so dangerous these days....

IMAO

You can travell w/o passport almost trough whole western, central europe w/o problems and 2 countries on lonely Island will play silly game with security words ...


But its hard to say who is more paranoid if CA or US.
Canada is parnoid in long term toward Europians, but US beat them 6 years ago or so.

So ... enjoy rest of freedom you have
Title: Passport for entering Canada from US?
Post by: Torque on July 09, 2004, 04:30:22 AM
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Originally posted by SOB
I once got interrogated by a lady in the booth...I had a mini-van full of computer equipment and told her I was just headed to Canada for lunch.  I was up doing some IT work in out Bellingham, WA office with a co-worker and we though it'd be a good way to waste some time.  He swore up and down we'd get in Canada without any hassle, but would be ripped a new one on the way back in.  When we came back through on the US side, I told the guy we had just gone there for lunch...he just shook his head, gave a chuckle and waved us through.

The moral of the story: Canuck chicks are beetches! ;)


Maybe it was those leather chaps, and she thought you were hot.
Title: Passport for entering Canada from US?
Post by: SOB on July 09, 2004, 05:43:08 AM
They were actually pleather, and she was looking at me kinda funny.  I thought it was 'cause I farted, but maybe Canukian chicks dig that?! :D
Title: Passport for entering Canada from US?
Post by: SOB on July 09, 2004, 05:53:15 AM
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Originally posted by lada
im having fun how silly things you are able to tolerate in name of security...

I guess I find it funny (well bizarre, really) that you find the act of handing someone a passport or birth certificate such a big deal.  And from reading this thread, it sounds as if it's not readily enforced at the border.  So yeah, I can tolerate whatever freedom I'm giving up (not sure exactly what that would be...freedom not to talk to someone at the border for two minutes?) on the rare occasion that I happen to travel to Canada.

Of course, I've lived with the tyranny that is the Oregon / California border where I'm forced to stop and hand over any fruit I may be carrying.  So after losing the right to bear fruit, I guess I'm willing to give up anything.  Oh My™, what a police state we've become!
Title: Passport for entering Canada from US?
Post by: capt. apathy on July 09, 2004, 08:31:24 AM
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Originally posted by lada
im having fun how silly things you are able to tolerate in name of security...

People who travell between Us and Canada are so dangerous these days....

IMAO

You can travell w/o passport almost trough whole western, central europe w/o problems and 2 countries on lonely Island will play silly game with security words ...


But its hard to say who is more paranoid if CA or US.
Canada is parnoid in long term toward Europians, but US beat them 6 years ago or so.

So ... enjoy rest of freedom you have


I find we've lost an unacceptable amount of freedom lately (just about anything under 'the patriot act', is a violation), but keeping tabs on who is going in and out of our country doesn't fall into that category.  I'd say it fits more properly into reasonable caution.

Canadians aren't exactly a problem around here, but they are their own country.  we don't control who they let into their country so just being half way alert, or would require trying to keep a tab on who comes from there to here.
Title: Passport for entering Canada from US?
Post by: Torque on July 09, 2004, 08:36:53 AM
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Originally posted by SOB
They were actually pleather, and she was looking at me kinda funny.  I thought it was 'cause I farted, but maybe Canukian chicks dig that?! :D


Only the Keepers.:aok
Title: Passport for entering Canada from US?
Post by: midnight Target on July 09, 2004, 09:40:11 AM
Last time I went to Vancouver I used a birth certificate.
Title: Passport for entering Canada from US?
Post by: Red Tail 444 on July 09, 2004, 09:54:08 AM
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Originally posted by SOB
Hmm, what's the exit off of I-5 N to Syria?


:lol Let me know so I NEVER take it by mistake
Title: Passport for entering Canada from US?
Post by: Chairboy on July 09, 2004, 09:58:18 AM
Watch out, in Oregon, there's an exit that takes you to freakin' LEBANON.  I've been afraid to exit there because the last thing I want to do is stop for gas and find myself in downtown Beirut in the middle of a firefight.

http://www.mapquest.com/maps/map.adp?country=US&address=&city=Lebanon&state=OR
Title: Passport for entering Canada from US?
Post by: Ripsnort on July 09, 2004, 10:02:40 AM
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Originally posted by SOB
Orel/Lada,I guess I find it funny (well bizarre, really) that you find the act of handing someone a passport or birth certificate such a big deal.  And from reading this thread, it sounds as if it's not readily enforced at the border.  So yeah, I can tolerate whatever freedom I'm giving up (not sure exactly what that would be...freedom not to talk to someone at the border for two minutes?) on the rare occasion that I happen to travel to Canada.

Of course, I've lived with the tyranny that is the Oregon / California border where I'm forced to stop and hand over any fruit I may be carrying.  So after losing the right to bear fruit, I guess I'm willing to give up anything.  Oh My™, what a police state we've become!

:rofl :rofl :rofl :rofl