Originally Posted by jimbo99
Obviously as a naive Brit I'm missing something..... It comes as a surprise to me that any country would allow another national to enter without a passport..... I suppose it happens within the EU a little....
I bet the US doesn't allow many people in without a passport - just Canadians perhaps?
Good luck anyway... hopefully you'll get some more useful answers from someone else!
Well, the US southern border has more holes than swiss cheese. The government does very little about it. Crossing illegally is a misdemeanor.
Legally, you can still visit most of the Caribbean countries without a US passport. All it takes is an original birth certificate and photo id. As
gt_croz points out, that's going away soon.