Latest Breaking News
In reply to the discussion: Canadian woman refused U.S. entry because of depression [View all]NutmegYankee
(16,282 posts)Even if you lose your passport, you WILL get back in. You'll just have a hell of a day answering questions and waiting for them to confirm who you are.
As for mental health reporting - that's probably more a result of the mass shooting phenomenon than national security. Since nearly all mass shooting perpetrators were mentally ill, many states now require any mental health issues that have required a person to be hospitalized to be reported to the state to prevent those person's from purchasing firearms. That information goes into national database. I expect that's how this information would get out to LEOs in the USA. In this case, this record of a suicide attempt, logged in a Canadian database, was shared by Canadian LEOs with their American counterparts. We applied our law and denied her.