Begining next year, Americans can still enter Canada without thier American passport, but won't be allowed to return to America without it. Getting an American passport is an unbelieveable hassle and few people get them unless they have to. What will this do to the travel and tourism industry in Canada? All these redneck Americans who hunt and fish in Canada are not going to wait around for fancy passports, and people with large families will be turned off by the cost of getting everyone in the family a passport. Soon enough, Americans will need "papers" to travel from state to state. This is becomeing a really sucky place to live.
2007-03-08 07:39:23 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Immigration
Considering the terrorists that crossed the Maine/Canada border, for the 9/11 attacks, did so with legitimate paperwork I don't see any sense in it. Couple that with the fact that you can cross the border almost anywhere in the winter on a snowmobile it seems that all we've managed is to insult our northern ally.
FYI: the reason you can get into Canada w/o a passport is because it's Canadian customs that you're dealing with, the return trip is American customs.
2007-03-08 07:51:35 · answer #1 · answered by Alan S 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is really no big deal. I live near the Canadian border and we have been being told for three years that the need for passports is coming. Most of the people around here that object only object because they don't like the government telling them what to do.
This is one area though where I think the government needs to step up and either subsidize the costs. Too many people in the rural North cannot afford $100 (almost) cannot afford to get passports for their families. I know my brother and his wife and four kids couldn't. If the government is going to make this a requirement they need to help people obey the law. I totally disagree with DHS and Sect Chertoff caving in and saying kids 15 and under can use a birth cert and 16-18 can use a birth cert with a parent's permission slip. GET REAL! The solution is for the gov't to get off its butt and get those cards issued that substitute for a passport.
We have the technology. Put a different color on the permanent resident cards. Secure document, very fraud resistent, can store all the necessary info on the back just like for lawful permanent residents. Cost should be minimal.
2007-03-08 12:57:03 · answer #2 · answered by anonymouse 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The world is so small these days that a passport is no big deal. If you have nothing to hide then you should not object...the only thing is that the countries should reduce the cost of getting passports, especially for big families and/or give them a tax credit to put against them...and then, when a baby is born, the first two things he gets are his a) birth certificate and b) a passport...renewable in 5 years is okay, but again, keep the price affordable.
2007-03-08 07:43:31 · answer #3 · answered by basport_2000 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Getting an American Passport is a time consuming process, but certainly not a hassle. What's the big deal? Canada is another country and you have to have a passport to travel out of the country. The reason Bush is doing this is because Canada allows ANYONE into their country, including people who might want to just hop across a bridge to get into this country illegally. I don't know about you, but I live smack dab between Port Huron and Detroit, Michigan....and I welcome the added security.
2007-03-08 07:49:31 · answer #4 · answered by LolaCorolla 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The passport is an added delay in customs, is also a financial cost and it may even drop levels of tourism. For example when I just got my passport instead of the Florida I opted for another destination.
2007-03-08 07:51:57 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
lack of expertise is bliss. truly. until eventually he's most suitable their international locations and it makes any impression on them, no foreigner is going to care what the easily guidelines are contained in the U. S.. properly, they could care even as the U. S. is only unable to bail out Europe even as the French pick Hollande and cave in the French debt settlement with Germany. yet i wager we are going to see.
2016-12-05 10:25:23 · answer #6 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
lol i had no trouble getting one. i travel and forth over the border all the time. no big deal stop whining. unless you owe child support it is not a hassle.
2007-03-08 10:18:15 · answer #7 · answered by CCC 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋