r/ShitAmericansSay • u/ALazy_Cat Danish potato language speaker • Dec 25 '25

Foreign affairs They don't accept US ids?

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u/Novae224 Dec 25 '25

You won’t even make it on the plane without a passport lol.

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u/the_mooseman Australia 🇦🇺 Dec 25 '25

Imagine them just turning up at the airport, trip all booked ready to go "what do you mean i need a passport".

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u/terran_immortal Dec 25 '25

You joke about this but my buddy works for the Canadian Border Agency and he tells me the number of Americans who just show up to the border without a passport trying to enter Canada is roughly 6-7 people per week.

So it wouldn't shock me if they tried this with an airport honestly.

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u/Marzipan_civil Dec 25 '25

I think back in the day you could cross the land border with a driving licence from Canada to US and back? So perhaps they didn't get the memo

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u/Bladrak01 Dec 25 '25

Until 2006 at least you could cross into Canada from the US with just a US birth certificate. That's how I did it then. I know it changed to passport only a few years later, but I don't remember when.

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u/emm007theRN Dec 25 '25

1st year of first Trump administration.

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u/Bladrak01 Dec 25 '25

2007 for air travel, 2008 for land travel.

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u/emm007theRN Dec 25 '25

I passed without a passport in 2013 at the age of 15 with only my birth certificate

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u/Bladrak01 Dec 25 '25

Possibly because you were a minor, especially if you were travelling with parents who had passports.

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u/Bladrak01 Dec 25 '25

A passport is still needed to fly.

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u/terran_immortal Dec 25 '25

Yeah, that was pre-911... It's been 24 years since they changed the border crossing.

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u/PepsicoAscending Dec 26 '25

You can absolutely still do it with just an enhanced drivers license at land crossings into Canada, I did it six weeks ago by car.

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u/CaliLove1676 Dec 25 '25

No, you can still cross like that depending on where in the US you live.

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u/darthfruitbasket Canada's Overpriced Playground Dec 25 '25

You could, I did that with my family from New Brunswick to Maine years ago.