As a Canadian Citizen do I need a Canadian Passport to fly back to Canada from the US?

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Pichi

This is a quote from the official website, link below:

"January 23, 2007 â€“ Passports, Merchant Mariner Documents (MMDs) or NEXUS Air cards would be required for all air travel from within the Western Hemisphere for citizens of the United States, Canada, Mexico, and Bermuda. "

http://travel.state.gov/travel/cbpmc/cbpmc_2223.html#faqs

This, then, would include a Canadian citizen travelling from the U.S. to Canada by air.

AuntCarolyn

On March 11 I flew from Philadelphia to Ottawa, and I was asked for my passport as I was boarding the airplane in Philadelphia, as well as, of course, by Canada Customs.

Capri

If u r a Canadian citizen and living in US beofre this Passport law passed,u can fly back on the provision of any prrof of citizen ship.
After that how can u manage to cross the border by road r air?

matt_of_asia

from what I hear you will need a passport to enter USA. If you are dual-citizen then you probably can get back and forth on your USA passport.

If you are long term resident from Canada and not interested in navigating the U.S.s' redtape, you may want to do a trip to the embassy in your area and start applying to get yourself a passport. You will need your ORIGINAL birth certificate proving that you are Canadian. (regardless of if you do this in Canada or in USA.) If you don't have that, you may need to do a lot of letter writing and record checking to prove that you are canadian so you can get your passport.

mastering m

yes you need a passport to fly, and a rectal scan, to scan your eyes, lol usa security is getting tough to just pass threw into the US pretty soon actually, they'll probably be using finger prints, and than it'll be backed up for miles just to enter the US actually. because if they did that, i think it would be alot easier to catch those pesky terrorists because it would be like creating an identity for each person entering US soils, and than with a picture, and such other info, on each person, even if they are terrorists, and commit suicide they will have the photo, and have more than the ashes of the trade centers, and 2 jumbo jets to figure out which flew a plane into it, and than they could eventually, inter ateragate people thats people knew that certain person, and finally find osama spanking his meat in those underground caves, oh what the hell why doesn't bush take out those a-bombs out of the closets and blow the **** out of that country honestly, he could say oh something was wrong with the GPS, like they create a problem that does that so people actually experience that, and than they fix it only after they have done that. and they say we thought that was the Nevada deserts! where they still use bombs there (except nuclear bombs of coarse....or have they stopped)

wow i kinda went off subject there...oh well, you need a passport tho

Dude

It is true that Canadian entry requirements haven't changed and the Canadian gov't won't require you to have a passport, but the reality is that you may be denied boarding in the US if you don't have your passport available.

Cariad

No, you only need a passport to "enter or-re-enter" the USA, not come back to Canada.

From the Passport Canada website:

Will travellers need a passport to enter or re-enter Canada?
Canadian entry requirements have not changed. If you are Canadian, you do not need a passport to enter or re-renter Canada.

The Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative (WHTI) is a new American law that requires, for now, that all AIR travellers, including Canadians, carry a valid passport, or a Nexus Air Card when travelling to the United States from within the western hemisphere including Canada.

Furthermore, the Department of Homeland Security requires that airlines demand that traveler present a valid passport, or a Nexus Air Card to board a plane.

The U.S. Government has assured Canada that it is not the intention of WHTI or APIS to prevent Canadians from returning to Canada.

As you can see it talks specifically about Canadians coming TO Canada as opposed to Canadians travelling TO the USA. (TO Canada, no passport by air. TO USA by air, yes you ned one)

curtishawilder

yes you do anytime you travel from one country to another you will always need a passport

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