passports now needed for canada us mexico travel

Sad isn't it that we can't even trust our neighbours? All it is is another reason for Americans to be even more insular and anothercash grab by governments. From what people have told me, it takes about 3 months to get a passport now, even if you have all the papers filled out, can find someone authorized to sign the documents and have the time to stand in line a whole day!

I'm disappointed in this as well. My daughter is going to Quebec this summer for a French class trip. The cost for the 5 day trip is already $800, and now we found out she has to have a passport too! This is one expensive trip! And to top things off, she will be gone over her 17th birthday :( This will be the first birthday that she hasn't been home with me.... she's growing up!

I personally like this new requirement. I live in West Texas. My ex-husband moved to a Mexico-Bordered Town (Laredo). Even though I have requested he not cross the border with my children while they are in his possession he has done this repeatedly. His new wife is from Mexico and her family lives there still. They go into Mexico to visit them with my kids. What happens when they decide to not come back and I can't get my children back?? Or what if he takes them over there and something happens to one of them (they are all blonde hair/blue eyed boys)?? By enforcing this passport requirement he will not be able to cross over with them. In order for him to get a passport for them both parent's signatures are required and that won't happen unlessed he forges my signature and then that is big time against the law. I have been waiting for this law to go into effect for the last two years and thankfully it is in it's final stages.

i just think it will complicate things espically betwee the us and the candian border, because before you just need ur birth certificate and that was it. i mean there have always been problems with the mexico border, but i never heard of problems with the cadian border.

Don't be silly, passports can be forged, even the latest types, if every passport has to be looked at, then there is a greater chance that forged ones will be missed. What reason is there to suppose that only nice people will have passports anyway. There is a growing resentment in Europe with the amoun of documents that Europeans have to provide before they can travel to U.S.A even just for a holiday.

It doesn't affect me right now. When it does I will just stick to my own country. (I am in Canada) I like to go to the US to visit but I could never live there nor pay the money for a passport to visit here and there. (I don't fly so going to other countries isn't happening any time soon.)

I dont know it seem like it might make it worse. Think about Niagra Falls you have a US side of the falls and a Canadian side of the falls, one side or the other will loose money from tourists unless they have passports if you know what I mean I am sure there are other areas of Tourism also.

well i was somewhere the other day and someone told me that this is changed. that you only are required to have a passport in air travel. i don't know if this is true. i think they should have one for anything, as you are going into a different country. i would love to go to canada as i have never been there.

What is the problem? It isn't with us, or most of our neighbors. It is with the foreign nationals who come into the US thru Canada & Mexico, & the illegal Mexicans & South Americans coming thru Mexico. I already have a passport & have always take in with me to exit the country, no matter where I am going. I used to go to Canada once or twice a year. It has expired, but I will renew it, I have no problem with that! I think it is a positive step, & will hopefully seal our borders a little better!

I sounds like a logical consequence of closing the borders. I think that passports might improve things assuming there is someone around to look at each and every one. It is most likely to happen at airports but that doesn't cover the miles of border on land. Let's face it. its a way for governments to keep tabs on where their citizens are going, moreso than tracking terrorists.

I think with the major problems of illegal immigrants coming into the United States, it is a good idea. I was a little surprised by this when I first heard about it. My mother in law is going on a cruise to Alaska. They were told they would need a passport because they would also be going into Cananda. It will be a drag at first, but people will get used to it, just like the increased security at airports.

I'm confused, I was only 15 back then so I didn't pay much attention, but I thought we had to have passports back then too. I'm 24 now so it wasn't very long ago. But, maybe my father just wanted us to have them to be safe.

Although it will be a pain in the butt, I imagine it is for the best. I remember on one of our vacations, we ended up deep into Texas (further and longer than we intended to stay) and decided to go to Mexico on two different afternoons. Good thing this wasn't instituted then, because we wouldn't have been able to take the impromptu trip into Mexico without a passport. Since we didn't expect going to Mexico, we didn't leave home with either a passport or papers to obtain one!

I think make them worse...

Be glad that something is being done to try to protect your country. Even in a small country like Iceland, we can't leave the country or enter it again withour our passports. This is done for your security.

It was supposed to happen in 2006, but they delayed it. We got our passports last year when we booked a cruise for this April. I'm glad we had them because we went to Jamaica unexpectedly and it made it so much easier! Right now land and sea travelers do not need a passport, only those traveling by air. I think the rest goes into effect in Ocotober??? I think it's a great idea! Although people can get fake passports so it's really not that much safer. It just speeds things up at the airport if all the documents look the same and they can find what they are looking for easily.

I don't think it will make much difference. Most air travelers already have them. I would hope that when it applies to land travelers it might help with the control of illegal immigrants, but even then I have my doubts it will make much difference.

Im not sure but it deffinately puts a stop to my going to canada i have no passport

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