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Article: Travel Q&A: Do I need a passport to drive into Canada?
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- San Jose Mercury News (San Jose, CA)
- Article date:
- June 18, 2007
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Byline: Michael Martinez
Q. Do I or don't I need a passport to travel into Canada by car? I've heard different things from travel agents. _ L.L.
A. You can still enter Canada or Mexico by car using only your driver's license. And Congress took action Friday to delay any such passport requirement for drivers until June 2009.
Passports already had been required for air travel to those countries (as well as Bermuda and the Caribbean), but that rule has just been relaxed.
On June 8, the U.S. State Department and Homeland Security announced that, because of a backlog of passport applications that has delayed processing times, U.S. citizens ...