Any members who live close to the border can help us out with this Just suppose you had a friend who lives just over the border,or your job was there ? Do you have to produce a passport?or something?(pay for the priviledge?)Must be awkward travelling by road to Alaska from The US? having to go through 2 borders
Posts: 13169 | Location: 6 miles west of Wigan UK | Registered: 06-05-02
To the best of my knowledge, these days a passport or birth certificate is required to cross the border. If one were to use the same border crossing point day in and day out, and the same guards were there day in and day out, I would suppose that this isn't necessary.
At least that's the way it is here in Washington State.
Posts: 3476 | Location: Colfax, WA--the home of the world's largest chain-saw sculpture!! | Registered: 06-03-02
Unless it has changed drastically, the only thing to show when traveling the Alcan was a drivers license...I have made 3 trips, my folks 20 plus, and that is all that was necessary, besides proving that you had sufficent funds for the trip... Its possible that maybe a birth certificate is necessary now, but definatly not a passport...
Posts: 2258 | Location: Naples, Florida, United States | Registered: 06-03-02
Mexicans who travel frequently to the US can get what's called a Laser Visa. I think it's authenticity is checked by laser, hence the name, but I don't really know. Anyway, to get this Visa, you need to pay a fee and fill out forms, and you also go through a criminal background check. You do not need a passport to get one. This Visa only allows Mexicans to travel within a certain limit (for example, Mexicans who live in Juarez might travel to El Paso with a Laser Visa, but to go further than El Paso, they need to get a tourist visa like anyone else).
Posts: 2241 | Location: In between | Registered: 06-03-02
Bedstor and the rest of us natives here can look nearer home for an example of informality. No British citizen requires a passport to enter the Republic of Ireland, though the Irish authorities like them to carry a driving licence, any convincing naming document (union, serviceman's, student card ) or their ticket instead, and members of other European Union countries only need their national i.d. card, where issued. ( Some countries e.g. France have compulsory i.d. cards which citizens are supposed to carry at all times in public at home). In practice most of us regular travellers carry a passport anyway.
When I travel to Canada, I only ever need my birth certificate...when I take my children I need theirs also. Its pretty simple, unless you are the random person they decide to search.
Posts: 2177 | Location: USA | Registered: 09-13-03
