Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site utcsri.UUCP Path: utzoo!utcsri!phyllis From: phyllis@utcsri.UUCP (Phyllis Eve Bregman) Newsgroups: net.travel Subject: Re: Customs between U.S. and Canada (what's the problem) Message-ID: <856@utcsri.UUCP> Date: Sat, 9-Mar-85 15:56:32 EST Article-I.D.: utcsri.856 Posted: Sat Mar 9 15:56:32 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 9-Mar-85 19:57:19 EST References: <853@decwrl.UUCP><1443@dciem.UUCP> Organization: CSRI, University of Toronto Lines: 21 > Whether the Canada/US border is easy or difficult to cross depends on > a lot of things, including luck. I am a US citizen who lived in Toronto for 15 years. My two children were born there. We moved to NJ during the summer, and three weeks ago my 9 year old daughter went back to Toronto to visit. When she was brought back to Pearson Airport to leave, the US Immigration officials would not let her go because she had no proof that she had the "right" to live in the US. All she had with her as ID was her Canadian birth certificate. It was late in the day on Sunday, and there was nothing anybody could do except insist that she needed my birth certificate as well. Gee. I was in NJ. Anyway, we solved the problem by going around it, and she arrived the next day, but I was very ticked off. I have now applied for passports for both kids. -- Phyllis Eve Bregman CSRI, Univ. of Toronto {decvax,linus,ihnp4,uw-beaver,allegra,utzoo}!utcsri!phyllis CSNET: phyllis@toronto