[pct-l] Flying from Vancouver to So. Cal

[yawho_hiker at yahoo.com (j rhoades)]

Actually, the way the letter that was written that
accompanied my approved Canadian entry papers,
suggests you don't need any identification AT ALL
unless you are not an American citizen.  However I
suspect that the intent was lost via poor grammar. 

On the fourth page it does say everyone entering
Canada needs identification.  It also says,
explicitly, that if you are a U.S. citizen you do not
need a passport to enter Canada.

Below that it get's kind of fuzzy again and one could
interpret that all an American citizen needs is 1 
form of identification which includes a driver's
license.  I assumed that whatever it took to get me
into Canada should be good enough to get me back into
the U.S.  

I decided to take only my driver's license because I
didn't want to carry my passport and birth certifcate
all along the trail and I didn't want to burden anyone
with sending it to me. Also, the last time I had
returned to the U.S. license was just fine.  I decided
if there were any questions I would pull out the
papers I received from Canada and explain how I
interpreted the instructions. What reasonable US
immigration official would refuse me entry? 

I must have gotten one of the reasonable ones.   I
offered my driver's license and he asked me where I
was born.   I said "Ohio". He asked "What city in
Ohio".  I told him the small town where I was born,
which happens to be the first European settlement in
the NW territory (U.S.), but hardly anyone has heard
of.  He replied "I've been there."  Then he welcomed
me back to the U.S, and  told me to step ahead to the
scanner.

Jeff


--- Slyatpct@aol.com wrote:

> In a message dated 2/12/2005 9:08:57 PM Eastern
> Standard Time, 
> CWillett@pierce.ctc.edu writes:
> 
> > You will need a passport no matter how you want to
> cross the border, 
> > although the drivers license and birth certificate
> should get you through with just 
> > a lecture.  Or, it might not.  Or, it might go
> smoothly.
> > 
> 
> Well, what is it?
> 
> You don't NEED a passport to pass back and forth
> from Canada to the USA.  
> 
> I've come back from Canada, both before and after
> 9/11, with only a drivers 
> license AND a birth certificate and had no problems
> whatsoever.  
> 
> Sly
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