What documents must you have to go on a cruise to the carrabeans?

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ms xazzia

Only if you have to fly into the Caribbean.

As of this year, you're required to show your passport if you're traveling by AIR between "United States and Canada, Mexico, Central and South America, the Caribbean, and Bermuda." This passport policy will apply towards land and sea next year.

I've been able to come back to the US via cruise quite recently just by showing my driver's license but only after chatting with the custom's official a bit. Another girlfriend of mine used her birth certificate.

Do you hold dual citizenship? Can you use a passport from your other citizenship?

The best and most accurate answer you could possibly get, however, will be through your cruise line. Give them a call, they may say that you can use your social security card and driver's license with the expense of being hassled/questioned by a custom's officer.

Good luck!

kiz_me_u_fool

My carnival agent told me my bf won't need a passport. But he does need an ORIGINAL copy of his birth certificate and drivers license! I have cruised 11 times. And know this for a fact. Come 2008 everyone will need a passport. But not just yet. So get on it..and go find your birth certificate! You can get a copy of it at the hopistal you were born in.

sp1ceyde

If you are a citizen and born in the US you will be able to board the ship with your birth certificate and a valid State issued id card such as a driver's license.

You dont' need your ss card that is not proof you are a citizen.
Call your travel agent and talk to them they can help you get your documents and get the cruise lines to allow you to board

thomas1408

I am assuming that by sending in your citizenship certificate you are a naturalized citizen. This might be a problem for you. I would call the USCIS and see if you can use your citizenship certificate to travel with.

If however, you have a birth certificate, you can go on a cruise as long as you also have a drivers license. Caveat Emptor. If you fall sick and have to be flown out of the ship you will not be able to do this. The Department of Homeland Security changed rules for people flying into the country from the Caribbean. You now have to have a passport to fly into the country.

Manisha G

Hope this site will help you.

mindymichele20

it depends on what islands will you land but most will allow you to have just a birth certificate and proof of ID until January 2008

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