Originally Posted by
tusphotog
If your wife has any trouble getting a rush passport, she can drive across. NEXUS is good for land entry without a passport. Just hop a flight to BLI or SEA and drive.
It always makes me laugh when the agents at YVR make people show passports to get on the plane. Everyone is technically “in” the US.
I laugh more when people make this false assertion. No one is in the US "technically" or otherwise, although pending Bill C-23 is potentially weaking that distinction. The passengers are pre-cleared for entry into the US and are still subject to further inspection on arrival at the US destination airport (rare as that may be). The agents ask for passports because the airline is still responsible that the passenger manifest matches the US pre-clearance info going to the specific destination airport - so they ask for a Passport (or NEXUS) at boarding.