Tested positive in Porto before returning to US
May 20, 2022, 11:53 am
#16
Join Date: Dec 2009
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I would worry that as soon as you get the paperwork straight for your wife, that you will test positive and start the whole cycle again.
Think about changing your flight to Toronto, taking the bus across the border to Buffalo, and then flying home from there.
Forget about which airline and business class.
Think about changing your flight to Toronto, taking the bus across the border to Buffalo, and then flying home from there.
Forget about which airline and business class.
May 20, 2022, 4:31 pm
#17
Join Date: Aug 2017
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One bit of advice too for “free” medical support/letters - “One Medical” - they are in NY, CA and MA. If you pay $199 per year they have a basically unlimited video chat service with PAs and give free letters. We actually use them for all our medical needs so the $199 is a no brainer but we also use a handful of video chats a year too.
May 22, 2022, 3:32 pm
#19
Join Date: Aug 2015
Location: SFO
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Can always fly to Tijuana and walk across the border. Then take a flight home from SAN. Mexico has no testing requirement and you can use the pedestrian bridge to literally walk from the airport to USA as there is no testing requirement at land crossings. (Not debating the morals of flying with COVID, just pointing out the rules as written and enforced.)
-Passengers and aircrew members arriving at Mexican airports may be subject to health screenings including temperature checks. Those exhibiting symptoms may be subject to additional health screening and/or quarantine.
-Travelers entering Mexico via land may be subject to health screen including temperature checks. Travelers may experience significant delays and face the possibility of being returned to the United States or quarantined in Mexico.
-Travelers entering Mexico via land may be subject to health screen including temperature checks. Travelers may experience significant delays and face the possibility of being returned to the United States or quarantined in Mexico.
May 22, 2022, 4:23 pm
#20
Join Date: Jan 2017
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Is the following part of "the rules as written"?
https://mx.usembassy.gov/covid-19-in...ens-in-mexico/
https://mx.usembassy.gov/covid-19-in...ens-in-mexico/
And can say from friends experience in this exact same situation that Mexican officials really won't care unless you are hacking coughs all over them. The land border crossing option is perfectly legal and viable. In my friends case, he was asymptomatic after 2 days, but kept testing positive as of 5 days, and just really really didn't want to stick around for another 5 days for the recovery certificate. Flew to MEX, then TIJ, and crossed using the Border Xpress land crossing connected to TIJ.
Flying to YYZ and then bus/taxi to BUF is probably the easiest for those east of the Rockies.
May 22, 2022, 5:03 pm
#21
Join Date: Feb 2012
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Someone in another thread also suggested this alternative to TIJ -- flying to YYZ, then taking a bus to Buffalo. This may end up a bit more expensive than the fee for CBX bridge + the shuttle to SAN or LAX.
p.s. just noticed the earlier post
p.s. just noticed the earlier post
May 22, 2022, 5:14 pm
#22
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As of April 1, 2022, fully vaccinated travellers no longer need to provide a pre-entry COVID-19 test result to enter Canada.
May 22, 2022, 6:04 pm
#23
Join Date: Jan 2017
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https://www.dfa.ie/travel/travel-adv...ntries/mexico/
May 23, 2022, 7:44 am
#24
Join Date: Oct 2016
Posts: 92
Wow - good luck and thanks for the questions. This thread is useful to me and others at a general level just to help understand some of the contingencies one might encounter after getting Covid overseas. Otherwise it's hard to imagine all the possible roadblocks, details, rules etc. which go way beyond simply being sick and quarantined in another country. (Reminds me a bit of being in Poland when the volcano erupted in Iceland, but that was all over in two weeks, and was simply a matter of the availability of travel options and uncertainty as to when it would be okay to fly over Northern Europe.)