Reply #35: moi?

[iverglas]

I'm not much interested in crossing the border these days. And I've been out of immigration practice for 15 years.

Personal experience really isn't relevant to the rules. And the rules are new and getting newer.

In fact, there is much more scrutiny trying to get back in the US from our own border guards, always have to show ID.

Uh, yeah, that's the second reason why Canada is cracking down (the first being that we don't want to keep getting called the slackers on the block).

If we admit a US citizen or resident without proper proof of citizenship or residence, the US just might not take him/her back. And just might have some questions about how/why s/he got admitted to Canada in the first place, of course.


Call BS all you want. The fact that this isn't headline news in the US really means nothing.

Canadians, proportionately, travel to the US much more than vice versa. It's cold here in the winter, and we're just travelling fools. The rush on our passport office, and the ever-changing whims of the US govt as to whether and when we will have to present passports to enter the US, and the effect that the whole nasty business is having on business in Canada, is on the front page regularly here.