Indian passport, cnd citizen, travelling to US on B1/B2 visa and confused !
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Posted on: 20-03-07 16:21:09
actually...canadian citizens re-entering Canada don't need to show a passport. It says so on the passport canada website: http://www.pptc.gc.ca/help/faq.aspx?lang=e
so right now I am thinking of:
- via bus/train to some US city like Buffalo, Rochester (any tips here ? which will be cheapest / fastest route ?)
- domestic flight to US destination
- return flight to Canada
There are two different things
1 When you travel to states by land, you can show them your citizenship card + drivers license and go in. Keep the indian passport handy and don't show it to them. In case if they ask you to go into the office at the border, then you will end up showing your indian passport. They may force you get new I-94 since you have valid B1/B2 visa in your indian passport. By law, they can't attach the I 94 to your indian passport because you are a canadian citizen. In that case, they will turn you back and there is a possibility they add your name to the skeptical list
2 Forget the flight originating from canada to states. They will turn you back in the airport itself.
By the way, Is it so hard to get canadian passport? Go for the express service with a itenerirary and you get passport in 2 days.
Good luck
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don't take any risk Just apply for the Urgent passport
In person
At a Passport Canada office
Processing time -- 2 weeks (10 working days) This does not include the day the application is submitted and mailing time.
Details Where to submit -- Passport Canada service locations
Urgent and Pick-up services
Urgent Within 24 hours $70 You must provide proof of travel and a valid acceptable reason for travel.
http://www.ppt.gc.ca/can/submit.aspx?lang=e#urgent
i have applied for it and they say i'll get it a day before my travel date.
for the passport issue; What the documentation one has to proveide to show it urgent, as they say, a letter from physician, death certificate, or for business, so whats the documentaton you have provided, magic robot,
please help me out ,thanks in advance,,bye
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Originally posted by majicrobot
There are two different things
1 When you travel to states by land, you can show them your citizenship card + drivers license and go in. Keep the indian passport handy and don't show it to them. In case if they ask you to go into the office at the border, then you will end up showing your indian passport. They may force you get new I-94 since you have valid B1/B2 visa in your indian passport. By law, they can't attach the I 94 to your indian passport because you are a canadian citizen. In that case, they will turn you back and there is a possibility they add your name to the skeptical list
2 Forget the flight originating from canada to states. They will turn you back in the airport itself.
By the way, Is it so hard to get canadian passport? Go for the express service with a itenerirary and you get passport in 2 days.
Good luck
In my view whatever you have written is wrong.
1. US will not ask you to submit Indian passport if you are a Canadian citizen since you are supposed to have got the passport cancelled once you change your citizenship. A foolish officer might ask, but you are not expected to show your previous passport and can talk to senior officer if atall first officer shows such foolishness.
2. During the March break, more than 300 persons have been allowed to take flights to USA without a Canadian passport. It was published in toronto Star at the start of the March break. The US authorities were quoted as saying that they are allowed to let people go without a Canadian passport, using their own judgement.
3. Yes, these days it is a long queue, even with urgent application, it is taking a few weeks as per last report I read last week.
Chandresh
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