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View Full Version : Heads up...new travel law.

Wildcat
10-01-2006, 09:09 PM
I was going over the cruise program and saw a new travel law so I checked it out with the US State Dept and it's real.

If your going to Canada, Mexico or any other place in the Western Hemisphere you will need a US passport starting as early as next year.

Also on ALL cruise lines you will need a US passport to ever get aboard the ship. It does NOT mater if you are going from one US State to another State or ever the same State like Hawaii, you will need your passport. Some cruise lines are starting it today, Oct 1, 2006.

It is new and used not to be this way. So if you have any travel plans for Canada, Mexico or any curises you need to get started getting your passports if you do not already have an updated one.

http://www.freestylecruising.com/more/passport_requirements.htm

http://www.travel.state.gov/travel/cbpmc/cbpmc_2223.html
corndogggy
10-01-2006, 09:58 PM
One time I was at a conference at San Diego and the promotors sent us to Tijuana to party for a night. They said as long as we were with the group, we only needed two forms of ID with one having our picture on it to get back in. So 5 greyhound buses full of people went down there then on the way back, we expected them to check our ID's or whatever... they did not check a single one of us. FIVE GREYHOUND BUSES FULL OF PEOPLE. We could have brought back absolutely anybody we wanted to, they didn't even board the bus.
JP
10-02-2006, 06:59 AM
One time I was at a conference at San Diego and the promotors sent us to Tijuana to party for a night. They said as long as we were with the group, we only needed two forms of ID with one having our picture on it to get back in. So 5 greyhound buses full of people went down there then on the way back, we expected them to check our ID's or whatever... they did not check a single one of us. FIVE GREYHOUND BUSES FULL OF PEOPLE. We could have brought back absolutely anybody we wanted to, they didn't even board the bus.


haha...yup...its no secret that our borders are not secure...I've heard several stories about Tijuana...practically everyone that visits so Cal does the same thing. Personally, I think these changes are long over due...maybe a little inconvenient, but nothing in travel is convenient anymore and it can't be.