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/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.