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Article #167Re: US citizen travel to Canada - passport required?
From: Bruce Lowekamp
Date: Mon, 10 Oct 1994 18:36
Date: Mon, 10 Oct 1994 18:36
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Border crossings are fairly easy unless you look "suspicious." If you don't look like a "typical american," whatever that means, you might want to be sure you have a couple forms of ID. I've crossed five times or so and never had any problems. In fact, when I flew from Toronto to Baltimore, I was asked four questions, the answer to all of which was "Baltimore." When my high school band went to Toronto, they looked over all five of our buses. They asked questions of the people who didn't look "typically american," meaning hispanics, orientals, and a few other people in the band. The questions weren't odd, just a little bit about where they lived, etc. They asked one student to see some ID, so he showed them his school ID I think it was, and they let him through. As with all things, your mileage may vary. From what I understand this is typical, but I've also heard that occasionally someone can be given a real hard time. Bruce -- Bruce Lowekamp lowekamp@cs.cmu.edu Carnegie Mellon Computer Science (412)268-7673 http://www.cs.cmu.edu:8001/Web/People/lowekamp.html
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fb37e,c5d0a7e006b33c98 X-Google-Attributes: gidfb37e,public X-Google-Thread: 107959,c5d0a7e006b33c98 X-Google-Attributes: gid107959,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1994-10-11 01:13:09 PST Newsgroups: cmu.cs.general,pgh.general Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!bga.com!news.sprintlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!uunet!newsfeed.pitt.edu!nntp.club.cc.cmu.edu!crabapple.srv.cs.cmu.edu!lowekamp From: lowekamp@cs.cmu.edu (Bruce Lowekamp) Subject: Re: US citizen travel to Canada - passport required? Message-ID: <CxGzpI.EwJ.1@cs.cmu.edu> Sender: news@cs.cmu.edu (Usenet News System) Nntp-Posting-Host: ux3.sp.cs.cmu.edu Organization: School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon References: <CxFsGq.Ks1.1@cs.cmu.edu> Date: Mon, 10 Oct 1994 14:36:51 -0400 Lines: 23