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

[kgdavis970 at earthlink.net (Ken Davis)]

The passport is definitely the way to go.  You take no risks if you have
one, and you'll be surprised how often you end up using it.  I got my first
passport back in '95 and it is due to expire in October of this year (I'd
best get an extension).  The only reason I got it at the time was to go on
a vacation in Mexico.  I had never travelled to places that required one up
to that point and didn't plan on any other use for it.

Looking in my passport 10 years later, I see stamps from Mexico, the UK,
Denmark, Italy, Saudi Arabia, Sweden, Japan and Singapore.  I wouldn't have
been able to go to any of these places without it.  Get the passport, even
if you can get by without it for entry into Canada, you'll use it over the
course of 10 years time.  

BTW, It takes eight weeks to process a passport, so you should get right on
it.

Ken Davis


> [Original Message]
> From: Chris Willett <CWillett@pierce.ctc.edu>
> To: <pct-l@mailman.backcountry.net>
> Date: 2/13/2005 11:59:29 AM
> Subject: RE: [pct-l] Flying from Vancouver to So. Cal
>
> You need to prove citizenship to enter the US.  A drivers license does
not prove citizenship.  At the Peace Arch crossing, I've been repeatedly
told that a drivers license and a birth certificate do not qualify as
proving citizenship.  It does not matter if I think this is foolish or if
it seems contrary to what the law requires.  The border agents have a lot
of discretion, such as putting people through an hour question-and-answer
session because the person happened to visit Syria and Lebanon during their
winter vacation.
>
> Entering Canada, I rarely have to show much, although I usually have my
passport on me.
>
> Suge
>
> ---------------------------
> Christopher Willett
> cwillett@pierce.ctc.edu
> www.pierce.ctc.edu/faculty/cwillett
> Pierce College
> 9401 Farwest Drive SW.
> Lakewood, WA. 98498-1999
>
> > ----------
> > From: 	Slyatpct@aol.com
> > Sent: 	Saturday, February 12, 2005 8:46 PM
> > To: 	Chris Willett; pct-l@mailman.backcountry.net; eyakel@earthlink.net
> > Subject: 	Re: [pct-l] Flying from Vancouver to So. Cal
> > 
> > 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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