Nexus and ESTA
#1
Nexus and ESTA
Hiya - Happy Monday.
Quick question, I am a Brit, landed PR and now a Citizen of Canada , I also have a NEXUS card too.
Now, I know I don't need to have an ESTA if I travel to the USA from Canada, if I am travelling with my Canadian passport, but if for some reason I only had my UK passport with me and my NEXUS card, do I still need an ESTA?
I have searched the NEXUS and ESTA sites and I can't find the answer.
Any ideas? And thanks in advance.
Quick question, I am a Brit, landed PR and now a Citizen of Canada , I also have a NEXUS card too.
Now, I know I don't need to have an ESTA if I travel to the USA from Canada, if I am travelling with my Canadian passport, but if for some reason I only had my UK passport with me and my NEXUS card, do I still need an ESTA?
I have searched the NEXUS and ESTA sites and I can't find the answer.
Any ideas? And thanks in advance.
#2
Re: Nexus and ESTA
Hiya - Happy Monday.
Quick question, I am a Brit, landed PR and now a Citizen of Canada , I also have a NEXUS card too.
Now, I know I don't need to have an ESTA if I travel to the USA from Canada, if I am travelling with my Canadian passport, but if for some reason I only had my UK passport with me and my NEXUS card, do I still need an ESTA?
I have searched the NEXUS and ESTA sites and I can't find the answer.
Any ideas? And thanks in advance.
Quick question, I am a Brit, landed PR and now a Citizen of Canada , I also have a NEXUS card too.
Now, I know I don't need to have an ESTA if I travel to the USA from Canada, if I am travelling with my Canadian passport, but if for some reason I only had my UK passport with me and my NEXUS card, do I still need an ESTA?
I have searched the NEXUS and ESTA sites and I can't find the answer.
Any ideas? And thanks in advance.
#3
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Re: Nexus and ESTA
Hiya - Happy Monday.
Quick question, I am a Brit, landed PR and now a Citizen of Canada , I also have a NEXUS card too.
Now, I know I don't need to have an ESTA if I travel to the USA from Canada, if I am travelling with my Canadian passport, but if for some reason I only had my UK passport with me and my NEXUS card, do I still need an ESTA?
I have searched the NEXUS and ESTA sites and I can't find the answer.
Any ideas? And thanks in advance.
Quick question, I am a Brit, landed PR and now a Citizen of Canada , I also have a NEXUS card too.
Now, I know I don't need to have an ESTA if I travel to the USA from Canada, if I am travelling with my Canadian passport, but if for some reason I only had my UK passport with me and my NEXUS card, do I still need an ESTA?
I have searched the NEXUS and ESTA sites and I can't find the answer.
Any ideas? And thanks in advance.
#4
Re: Nexus and ESTA
A couple of months ago the US and Cdn officers working the NEXUS desk at Pearson...said to enter the US or Canada by air, road etc...we only need our NEXUS cards. Or is that because we are USC's?
#5
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Re: Nexus and ESTA
I was working in the NEXUS office today and the USCBP officer is now stating that the NEXUS machines in US Pre Clearance at Canadian airports have now been removed and replaced by the Global Entry Kiosks as NEXUS now includes membership into the GOES and if using one of these machines you have to scan the bio data page of your passport. If entering Canada there is only the NEXUS machines or the ABC machines.
Thank the Americans for any new confusion
#6
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Because you are USCs. As PRs can also get NEXUS cards they still have to meet the requirements of entry of their country of citizenship of which some may require a visa.
I was working in the NEXUS office today and the USCBP officer is now stating that the NEXUS machines in US Pre Clearance at Canadian airports have now been removed and replaced by the Global Entry Kiosks as NEXUS now includes membership into the GOES and if using one of these machines you have to scan the bio data page of your passport. If entering Canada there is only the NEXUS machines or the ABC machines.
Thank the Americans for any new confusion
I was working in the NEXUS office today and the USCBP officer is now stating that the NEXUS machines in US Pre Clearance at Canadian airports have now been removed and replaced by the Global Entry Kiosks as NEXUS now includes membership into the GOES and if using one of these machines you have to scan the bio data page of your passport. If entering Canada there is only the NEXUS machines or the ABC machines.
Thank the Americans for any new confusion
Thanks for the info.
#7
Re: Nexus and ESTA
Hiya - Happy Monday.
Quick question, I am a Brit, landed PR and now a Citizen of Canada , I also have a NEXUS card too.
Now, I know I don't need to have an ESTA if I travel to the USA from Canada, if I am travelling with my Canadian passport, but if for some reason I only had my UK passport with me and my NEXUS card, do I still need an ESTA?
I have searched the NEXUS and ESTA sites and I can't find the answer.
Any ideas? And thanks in advance.
Quick question, I am a Brit, landed PR and now a Citizen of Canada , I also have a NEXUS card too.
Now, I know I don't need to have an ESTA if I travel to the USA from Canada, if I am travelling with my Canadian passport, but if for some reason I only had my UK passport with me and my NEXUS card, do I still need an ESTA?
I have searched the NEXUS and ESTA sites and I can't find the answer.
Any ideas? And thanks in advance.
HOWEVER - make SURE you have gone to the NEXUS office and shown them your Canadian passport and have your GOES record updated to reflect that you ARE a Canadian citizen. Otherwise you're likely to have problems entering the US as the NEXUS record will pop up when you use your card and it will say you're British, not Canadian. Also get your card reissued so it says "CAN" on the front.
#8
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We crossed into the US at Lewiston last week...we asked why there wasn't any NEXUS kiosk and the IO just said there wasn't. Don't think there was a GOES kiosk either. At least there was a NEXUS kiosk at the Cdn border...scanned our card before we got to the kiosk and was waved straight through.
I have found at US POEs with no card readers that they sometimes get iffy and ask to see my passport - which I refuse to show them. I didn't come up with this stupid WHTI thing, they did.
Too many stupid entry systems, they can't keep track of them all. I remember at Pacific Highway once the CBP inspector and I got so tongue-tied with acronyms I basically burst out laughing and he thought I'd gone mental (as American bureaucrats rarely have a sense of humour).
"Your NEXUS record says you're from Alberta."
"Yes."
"So the ALPR says this is a rental car?"
"Yes - I didn't know you used ALPR at NEXUS POEs in BC."
"Yes the ALPR is tied into the BC DMV at NEXUS POEs in BC."
Try and keep a straight face when someone says that to you.
#9
Re: Nexus and ESTA
The Canadian crossing at Lewiston still has a NEXUS kiosk...or at least it did 5 days ago.
#10
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Thank the Americans for any new confusion
You have to have your passport anyway at airports because of the IATA rule but it seems a backward step to require it for the GE booth.
I spoke to someone at the NEXUS office a few weeks ago and she told me they're having software issues with GOES and Global Entry, because for example, say you're a Canadian and are naturalized as an American and get an American passport, there's no way in GOES of changing the issuing authority for the passport, so it says you've got an American passport but the issuing authority is a Canadian passport authority which can cause the thing to go weird under some circumstances.
Say you roll up to GE and scan your American passport - does not compute.
Last edited by Steve_; Jun 24th 2014 at 2:11 am.
#11
Re: Nexus and ESTA
I'm not sure what the signage is but they're all GE kiosks now, this is a specific make and model of kiosk, apparently. Or will be, according to what they told me.
#12
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Re: Nexus and ESTA
Global Entry kiosks are for entering the US from any country in the world.
Canada will also allow you to use the NEXUS kiosks from any country as well.
Canada does not use the Global Entry kiosks hence the confusion
BTW the NEXUS kiosk female voice can be a bit of a bitch at times. Please move forward, move to the right, move to the left and Please step back when scanning your Iris in the Air mode.
Last edited by Former Lancastrian; Jun 24th 2014 at 2:10 am.
#13
Re: Nexus and ESTA
Canadian POEs are still keeping NEXUS as that is for the US/Canada programme.
Global Entry kiosks are for entering the US from any country in the world.
Canada will also allow you to use the NEXUS kiosks from any country as well.
Canada does not use the Global Entry kiosks hence the confusion
Global Entry kiosks are for entering the US from any country in the world.
Canada will also allow you to use the NEXUS kiosks from any country as well.
Canada does not use the Global Entry kiosks hence the confusion
#14
Re: Nexus and ESTA
Yeah sorry you're right, I'm just looking at this e-mail they sent me and it does say GE kiosks in pre-clearance going into the US.
#15
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Re: Nexus and ESTA
NEXUS are red kiosks Global Entry are blue. They are just being phased in and new software being installed. Global Entry is instant access a NEXUS card is taking up to 6 weeks to be mailed to you then you have 30 days to activate online.