Seat13F_AC_CRJ

Aw shucks!
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vernonc

I also read somewhere that someone did manage to get two passports but only one can be active at any time. So one can have the Israeli visa (which I thought was a paper attach anyway) and the others could have Arab countries for example. So if I remember correctly he would return one to Passport Canada and use the other. Now this is all based on my perhaps faulty recollection so at your own risk.

vernonc

Yes, I know the Nexus card works in the Global Entry machines. However there was a explicit statement from US CBP that only passports should be used in the machines. I would rather not risk their wrath as they can be difficult so I use the passport. If this has officially changed to allow the Nexus card to be used in the GE machine perhaps someone can post the link ?

jasdou

YMMV. My Nexus card was accepted in GE machines in YUL and YYZ recently, but not in EWR. I had to use my passport in EWR instead.

canadiancow

Then hand over your passport, along with a "for the record, as an A citizen with B status, C is sufficient documentation to go to country D."

I was asked for my US Permanent Resident card by NH agents in SYD to transit through SFO, after handing over my Canadian passport.

I could have argued, called a supervisor, but I didn't have it in me, so I gave her my green card, along with explaining "as a Canadian citizen, I do not need a green card or visa to enter the United States". Did she listen? Will she learn? I don't know. But it got me to the lounge faster.

And I'm the first person to argue with wrong airport agents when it benefits me.

Exactly. Like I don't think the 14 year old UM is at fault for getting stranded overnight in YYZ. But I also think that it could have been avoided VERY easily by proactively stating "I'm an unaccompanied minor" before/while getting IDBd.

Practical advice makes your life easier, even if it shouldn't be necessary.

I've been told explicitly by CBP not to use my NEXUS card, but never "only passports". My current instructions are "only use your green card".

flyquiet

I was one who posted that the Eagle Badge Man gave me a furious reprimand for using my card in the machine (evidently he could tell which document was used). I asked if it was new requirement and he said "no, it has always been that way", and I said to myself "all righty, then, he works at the airport, after all." Grasping for rationales, he pointed at my TN and said that was the reason. But the preclearance GE machines spit out the I94 after the photo page, so you don't need anything else. I let him rant and carried on, and have continued to use my card on each and every subsequent occasion with no further adverse experiences.

The authoritative reference on this matter is this:
https://www.cbp.gov/faqs/can-i-use-m...al-entry-kiosk

quantumofforce

I had to explain to local Singaporeans that it is weird for me to require passport control to leave a country. In Canada we just leave. Either drive out, boat out or fly out.

Singaporean: "but what if you skip your national service? (Required military duties)?"
Me: "we don't do that"
Singaporean "what if you don't pay your income tax?" (we only pay at end of year here)
Me: "we take the tax from the source, and at the year you can apply for a refund if you overpaid"
Etc...
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vernonc

Perfect thanks. Now I know I can officially use my Nexus cards in the Global Entry machines 'at Canadian Preclearance Machines only. So while I will always carry my passport, I do not have to dig it out for travel to and from the US. Unless off course GAs insist :-)

Seat13F_AC_CRJ

Not correct. You may have two valid passports and have them both in your possession at the same time.
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CZAMFlyer

Thanks for this link. Last month, I entered US pre-clearance at YVR using only my NEXUS card and an expired Cdn passport with holes punched in it. The officer waved me through with a "technically, you're not supposed to..." remark which, it appears from your source, may not have been entirely accurate. I had a second (non-Cdn) passport in my pocket, but using it would have created a bit more delay than simply presenting my NEXUS card and explaining my passport was in the process of being renewed. I don't know what Badenoch looks like, and was fearing his fuming presence behind me, even though I was on my time, and there were at least five other agents he could choose.

fin 645

It seems to me that many, many more countries have exit checks than not - in fact Canada and the US are the main ones that, in my experience, do not.

With respect to passports, it has always been my experience with AC that they will want to verify your passport at some point before you board for a flight from outside Canada, but will accept Nexus as ID for boarding itself. My only complication has been leaving a country that does do checks on one of that country's passports but wanting to enter Canada on a Canadian passport - the AC system can't handle it, but they are accustomed to the work around (eg Australia).

Crazydre

According to Timatic, NEXUS Cards work in GE machines except specifically for Canadians at US Airports (as opposed to preclearance)

Crazydre

Out in the world, you generally face entry and Exit checks. It's only the UK, Ireland, the US, Canada and Bahamas, plus Mexico by air, that don't do Exit checks.

Many countries like the Philippines also heavily control their own citizens leaving the country. It's common for Filipinos, especially first-time travellers, to be refused Exit because of Immigration not being satisfied about what they'll do abroad (!!!)

eigenvector

Had a weird incident at YYZ T3 a few months ago arriving from KEF. CBSA was checking passports at the end of the jet bridge. Offered my NEXUS card and was told no, I must present a passport.

Crazydre

Well NEXUS technically isn't valid other than if flying from the US. Still weird, as Canadians do enter Canada by right