AC No Longer Allowing Nexus as Sole Basis to Enter Canada?
Dec 3, 2020, 6:56 am
#196
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Right from the beginning you've supposed to have carried your passport with you regardless, which is why the Nexus machines going to/from the US require you scan the passport in one direction and the card in the other.
Dec 3, 2020, 8:27 am
#197
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The new NEXUS machines in Canada require a one-time passport scan, but there's a button fro "I don't have my passport with me".
Other than that, it's never technically required to make the machines work in either direction.
The really old GE machines don't accept it, but:
1. That's not a NEXUS machine
2. I've only seen them once in all my travel
Dec 4, 2020, 10:36 am
#198
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... no they don't ???
The new NEXUS machines in Canada require a one-time passport scan, but there's a button fro "I don't have my passport with me".
Other than that, it's never technically required to make the machines work in either direction.
The really old GE machines don't accept it, but:
1. That's not a NEXUS machine
2. I've only seen them once in all my travel
The new NEXUS machines in Canada require a one-time passport scan, but there's a button fro "I don't have my passport with me".
Other than that, it's never technically required to make the machines work in either direction.
The really old GE machines don't accept it, but:
1. That's not a NEXUS machine
2. I've only seen them once in all my travel
Dec 4, 2020, 11:20 am
#199
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Right enough about the new machines, I was referring to the old ones that had been in use for years and years. Perhaps I should have been clearer about that, but the point was, passport typically inserted into the kiosk when heading into the US, card inserted on return.
Dec 4, 2020, 12:27 pm
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Right enough about the new machines, I was referring to the old ones that had been in use for years and years. Perhaps I should have been clearer about that, but the point was, passport typically inserted into the kiosk when heading into the US, card inserted on return.
Dec 4, 2020, 4:47 pm
#201
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It so varies. I've used my NEXUS to check in online and then to check a bag at the counter, only to be told at boarding that I'm required to show my passport. Agent at YYJ threatened to not let the SE ahead of me fly when he presented his NEXUS and argued that it was sufficient. I'd also planned to use my NEXUS, and my passport case had, of course, slipped to the bottom of my bag under my laptop, so it was a bit of a thing to dig it out.
Different airports, different days, different scenarios, different answers. Did have NEXUS accepted for check in and boarding at SFO recently, though. YMMV?
Different airports, different days, different scenarios, different answers. Did have NEXUS accepted for check in and boarding at SFO recently, though. YMMV?
Dec 4, 2020, 5:29 pm
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When it happened to me, it was very concerning, as I had many YYJ-YVR-SFO flights where I actually didn't have my passport with me, but I luckily did that time.