For people that go to other countries

[Alpo]

 

The second panel. Now this trip was originally drawn back in the 90s. When we had open borders. When you did not need any kind of documentation to go to Canada.

 

So what would you carry to prove to the border guards that those were your kids?

 

Back then, as I understand passports, if you were taking your kids to England, they would be listed on your passport. Now, I believe, they have to have their own passport. Even if they're little itty bitty babies.

 

But going to Canada or Mexico back then, you just told them your citizenship and then drove across the border.

 

So how could you prove those kids was yours?

[Texas Joker]

My youngest and I travel internationally without my wife often enough i carry a notarized letter from her stating she is aware i am crossing borders with our son and a copy of his birth certificate listing me as father. He of course has his own passport.

[Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984]

2 hours ago, Alpo said:

 

So how could you prove those kids was yours?

I don’t recall having to prove anything.  For crossing by car, sometimes an American license plate was enough.

 

other times it was “open the trunk please” “why is there sand on this blanket?” “Used it at the beach” “with her.?”

[punxsutawneypete]

Years ago my recently departed uncle and I were coming back to the US from Canada.  I was driving my old 1988 Lincoln Town Car.  We stopped where required and the Customs Agent asked me, "Is this your car?"  I said that it was.  Why would Customs be asking me whether I was driving my own car?

[Rip Snorter]

One of you didn't match the other?

[Hardpan Curmudgeon SASS #8967]

Shux... back in the 90's on a couple of drives to BC the Canadian border folks just asked 5-year old Sassparilla Kid if his ma and I were his parents.  He grinned, said "Yup!" and we were on our way.  

 

 

[Red Gauntlet , SASS 60619]

I live in a border state and my dad and grandad were born in Canada. My grandad grew up there and was an RAF pilot in the First World War. My dad was a kid when they moved down here; he declared US citizenship when he became an adult; this would have been in the '40s. We often went into BC to visit relatives. He always had to have his papers handy for re-entry the US, though he'd been a citizen for decades.i

 

They never asked about us kids' though.

 

Entry into the US  was always harder than into Canada for decades. Into BC it was easy. Now it's tougher to enter Canada, and a passport is necessary as a practical matter-- both ways.

 

If you are a shooter, you need to sanitize your car of any stray ammo to enter Canada. An errant shotshell from an old duck hunt in the spare wheelwell? A .22 cartridge under a mat? You won't get in and you'll be lucky to escape arrest.

[Leroy Luck]

5 hours ago, Red Gauntlet , SASS 60619 said:

If you are a shooter, you need to sanitize your car of any stray ammo to enter Canada. An errant shotshell from an old duck hunt in the spare wheelwell? A .22 cartridge under a mat? You won't get in and you'll be lucky to escape arrest.

Educate me on this. You can travel with ammo across the border, but it needs to be accounted for?? What’s the big deal about a random round?

[Alpo]

9 hours ago, punxsutawneypete said:

Years ago my recently departed uncle and I were coming back to the US from Canada.  I was driving my old 1988 Lincoln Town Car.  We stopped where required and the Customs Agent asked me, "Is this you car?"  I said that it was.  Why would Customs be asking me whether I was driving my own car?

If I were to take and hide 40 kilos of heroin in various places in my car, so I could smuggle it across the border, I believe I would try to get some fool to drive my car for me. That way if the heroin got found, while I would still lose the heroin, I would not go to jail. He would.

 

That would be my guess as to why you were asked. If you weren't driving your car - if you were driving a car for somebody else - they would probably take a harder look at it.

 

You looked like a naive drug mule.

[Texas Joker]

Or a rental car?

[Red Gauntlet , SASS 60619]

8 hours ago, Leroy Luck said:

Educate me on this. You can travel with ammo across the border, but it needs to be accounted for?? What’s the big deal about a random round?

 

There are specific Canadian laws regarding bringing firearms and ammunition into Canada from the US. I don't know the specifics, but many pards here do; both our Canadian shooters and those Yanks who have hunted or competed in Canada.

 

If you don't follow those rules, and bring firearms or ammo into Canada, you can have a serious problem. If you bring a forgotten shotshell into Canada, you are in violation. And you'd be surprised how many countries think of a single cartridge as a big deal.

 

Others know more details, no doubt.

[Texas Joker]

Think of it like flying.

 

You can fly with your guns and ammo. If you hop through certain hoops.  Just toss a .38 and some shells in your carry on and see what happens.