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Old Jul 7, 2006 | 7:40 am
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abasanti
 
Join Date: Jan 2006
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Originally Posted by ACORD
Nice move. We just need the YYZ T2 terminals to pre-fill the US immigration forms now.

For some crazy reason, sometimes, if you renew you Canadian passport at a embassy outside the country you get a non-machine readable passport -- which is a pain in the butt.
Yeah and you get a bunch of information warnings in the front. Coupled with a note saying "Issued in xxxx on xxxxxxx" which confuses the hell out of some people. I was in budapest and had to argue the customs agent so I could get through, he thought it was a phony passport. I wonder, at which point do you start to bribe them? Sometimes I have a tough time letting it out of my hands.
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