Scouse Express

Okay,

Here is a link to the US Government's latest rules, concerning travel between the USA, Canada & Mexico......along with a few other countries.

Read the page carefully!

Jim.

http://travel.state.gov/travel/cbpmc/cbpmc_2223.html

jen_andreson

Thanks for that. Looks like some yanks will be queuing up to get passports! I was always amazed that they could travel to the country north and those south without one.

Patrick Hasler

It's about time too ! .............. We Brits have always had to have passports to og to France ................ If anyone actually wants to go to France

ladygwennie

Last time i went to paris, took the eurostar, never got asked for my passport once but that was some time ago...

Rete

And the other way around, too ;-) Canucks and Mexicans can travel to the US without passports.

I agree with you and always show my passport when going to Canada.

JAJ

When the British ID card is introduced, the card issued to British citizens will be ok for travel in the EEA states (plus Switzerland,probably)

jen_andreson

Too right--thanks for correcting me.

I was thinking of the oft reported newspaper story about how only 20% of Americans have passports, and my other half told me that one reason is because they only need passports to go to another continent (Europe, Africa, Asia, etc) and not their neighbouring countries. I didn't believe him, but obviously he proved to be correct. His family often took lots of hols to Mexico and the Caribbean but many of them didn't have passports--always seemed a bit odd to me.

Glad it's changing--it seems only appropriate.

NC Penguin

That's not quite true. I went to Paris in the 80s on a school trip. I forgot to carry my passport but when I reached Dover, I found it was not needed to gain entry to France at the time.


NC Penguin

JAJ

You were probably just lucky - a passport or national ID card has always been required to go to France.

Although there was the old British Visitors Passport until 1995 or so.

fatbrit

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Ben

I was going to remind you of those. The visitors passport could be obtained just before you got on the ferry (it was before 1995 though that this stopped. In fact I believe it was even before 1990) so there was no need for us Brits to have a full passport to leave the country.