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bartmanaz
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Posted: Fri Dec 15th, 2006 04:27 pm |
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The Travel Industry Association has a new website with current information on how to get passports for US, Canadian and Mexican citizens, in anticipation of the new rules going into effect requiring passports to enter/return to the USA.
Visit Get a Passport Now for all the information.
Bart
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Posted: Sun Jan 7th, 2007 02:42 pm |
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Hi Bart: What good does a passport do at the border? It was a one hour
wait at Mariposa this morning at 8am, January 7th, 2007. If there was a separate lane for passport holders, then that would be a help?
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bartmanaz
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Posted: Wed Jan 10th, 2007 02:29 pm |
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Please don't confuse the issue of what constitutes required identification to enter the US with the process required to be able to present said identification. When the requirements finally go into full effect, failure to have the required ID (a passport or whatever alternate acceptable form is introduced) is going to make your wait to enter the US only longer.
We presented this info to allow those who want to get these documents now a concise location for US, Canadian and Mexican citizens to get the appropriate information and procedures to start the process.
Bart
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Gerall
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Posted: Sun Jan 21st, 2007 08:33 pm |
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This may be good news for many:
Snowbirds can fly home
U.S. to bend rule requiring passport
BY SHELDON ALBERTS CANWEST NEWS SERVICE
WASHINGTON
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has decided not to ground Canadian snowbirds flying home to Canada without a passport.
Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said Thursday the U.S. has decided to temporarily forgo new passport rules for Canadians heading home by air from winter residences in Florida and other sunbelt states.
“For Canadians who are snowbirds who are returning to Canada, we will allow them to depart the United States without having a passport — for some significant period of time — to avoid the problem of people who may have come last year before the requirement,” he said following meetings here with Minister of Public Safety Stockwell Day.
“We don’t want to strand them here, although I’m sure they would love to stay an extra month in the warm weather.”
Starting Tuesday, all Canadians and Americans entering the U.S. by air will need a passport.
Passports at land border crossings will not be required until sometime between Jan. 2008 and June 2009.
The air rules will also apply to Canadians flying to Mexico or the Caribbean with a stop in the U.S. en route.
Those travellers already inside the U.S. must also have a passport to leave the country because of another rule, called advance passenger notification, requiring airlines to collect passport numbers from their customers at check-in.
The vast majority of Canadians wintering in the United States drive to their American residences, and may not have been aware of the looming air deadline when they left Canada.
Canadian officials were worried, in particular, about senior citizens who may need to fly home in a medical emergency but lacked the proper travel document.
Chertoff ’s decision to grant a temporary reprieve followed a letter from the Canadian Embassy requesting a transition period.
“We’re pleased that we’ve been able to send a signal to our snowbirds, as we call them, that they will not run into significant difficulties, in terms of returning to Canada,” Day said.
According to Chertoff, most Canadian and American air travellers are already in compliance with the new passport rules.
The number of Canadians flying with passports jumped from 93 per cent to 96 per cent over the past two weeks, he said. Among American flyers, 94 per cent had passports before boarding flights, up from only 81 per cent as recently as last Dec. 11.
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Posted: Tue May 22nd, 2007 08:51 pm |
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| Can an American get down with just a birth certificate?
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Gerall
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Posted: Tue May 22nd, 2007 10:07 pm |
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Check out this link for entry requirements, but as I understand it you can get into Mexico with a birth certificate PLUS a picture ID. The catch will be getting back into Canada/USA as you will require a passport.
http://www.frommers.com/destinations/print-narrative.cfm?destID=231&catID=0231020032
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bartmanaz
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Posted: Tue May 22nd, 2007 10:21 pm |
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Not yet, but soon you will need a passport to return to the USA. You can still travel to Mexico and back with a birth certificate and photo ID.
Bart
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TC
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Posted: Tue Jun 5th, 2007 02:53 am |
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bartmanaz wrote: Not yet, but soon you will need a passport to return to the USA. You can still travel to Mexico and back with a birth certificate and photo ID.
Bart
By land or sea, yes. By air a passport is required.
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Posted: Thu Jul 12th, 2007 12:48 pm |
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| We will be bringing a 15 year old granddaughter and a 16 year old grandson down to SC for about 2 weeks last of July into August. Both have passports. Is there a "permission" form release that should be used for their parents to sign? Also, is there a "medical" form release for them to sign? If these are not available, if the releases include their names, dates in SC, Sonora, our names as grandparents and are signed and notorized by their parents, will that be all we need? Thanks, Ron
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bartmanaz
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Posted: Thu Jul 12th, 2007 02:24 pm |
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There are no forms for this-what you have proposed is fine.
Bart
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Posted: Sun Oct 28th, 2007 04:42 am |
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How many illegals cross the borders every day? But yet my aging parents in Green Valley must get a passport for the first time in their lives in order to go to Nogales, Sonora, to their dentist. What happens if they go to their dentist and comes back to the AZ border at 80 something? Our country turns them away and sends them back to Mexico?
There should be some accommodation for a day trip to a border town.
teresita
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Posted: Fri Jan 25th, 2008 04:49 pm |
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| About illegals crossing the border, see: http://www.freewebs.com/tammyb/index.htm I don't think many of them cross by means conventional to law abiding citizens. They don't seem to need passports. This is a pretty lucrative business, possibly tied in with the so-called Mexican Mafia.
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Posted: Wed Apr 30th, 2008 10:33 pm |
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| Bart, sorta related to my question about grandkids above. We will be returning in July with a grandson who will have turned 20. What is the "legal" age for having a travel and medical release to us from his parents? Is the age 18 or 21, or just have a signed and notorized release of each anyway? Thanks, Ron
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bartmanaz
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Posted: Thu May 1st, 2008 01:56 am |
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No release required-he needs his documents-passport, bc, etc
Bart
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bartmanaz
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Posted: Wed Jul 16th, 2008 04:34 pm |
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Passport Card Information update as of July 14, 2008.
Bart
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