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What do I need to go to Canada? And back!?
Regicid3
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I'm traveling to Canada for Batman weekend, what are some valid forms of ID that I will need to cross the border? I also hear it's a lot more difficult to get into the US then it is to get into Canada.
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If you're driving you need a driver's license and a birth certificate, or one of the other few forms of accepted ID
Driving, drivers license and birth certificate, or just a passport.
Yes, getting into Canada is easy and usually takes a fraction of the time that it takes to reenter the US.
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We're driving. It's a group and one of the members has an expired learners permit and another has a valid learners permit. Will either of them have a problem?
yes, that's not identification
they need to get state IDs if they don't have drivers licenses
and even then they may get held up at the border because having a state ID instead of a driver's license tells the border patrol that you may have a DUI, in which case you can't get into Canada until a period of time (five years, I think) has passed.
Banning somebody from a country for a DUI is a little . . . extreme, don't you think?
I don't think either country allows convicted felons into their respective countries.
I would recommend that you all get passports if you don't already have them. Dealing with the border then is really, really easy.
I just mentioned the DUI thing because that's what the border officer told my friend when he gave them his state ID. He had both his state ID and driver's license on him though, so he just handed that over and they waved us through.
TWENTY TWO YEARS AGO.
He only got three months probation for it at the time. So yeah, Canada has been known to have a stick up its ass from time to time. If you happen to have any infraction at all (including up to a misprint on the blue ticket), you will get fined for it and detained while they search for other infractions, which they will then fine as well.
Why would they check it? They don't care WHY you have it; they'll just refuse entry. That's like saying "well, of course the officer won't care that I'm speeding, it'll be obvious that I'm just really late to an appointment. I'll just explain myself really well; it'll be OK"
To be fair, this works both ways. As a person who does a lot of traveling for business, I've met many a dickhead customs agent on both sides.
Seriously though, get a passport. It will result in the least amount of time and trouble at the border. And pretty soon you're going to need it to do any international traveling, so may as well bite the bullet now.
The reason for the DUI thing is that drunk driving is a felony in Canada (it's usually a misdemeanor in the U.S.).
Drunk driving can be either a summary or indictable (AKA hybrid) conviction in Canada (we don't use felony and misdemeanor here), meaning that the punishment will depend on how serious the offence was. If you have a DUI on your record in either country you're going to have issues crossing the border.
Why do you want to cross the border for a movie in the first place?
Four people in the car, everyone either had a BC and plastic state ID or passport except for one of us. The one who didn't have either only had his SSC and drivers license. The agent on our way into Canada gave him a little shit but ultimately let us through. However, on the way out . . . we weren't so luck. We had to go inside, it was only for 15 minutes though but we got through. I think they were able to look up my friends passport or something that he had forgotten to bring.