Air travel requires a passport. The NEXUS card itself is for land and sea crossings.

No. Passport is required when traveling by air (not to mention, most airlines will require you show them a passport at check in and/or the gate - IME, Nexus card can work for AC sometimes, but not US-based carriers).

For land, Nexus alone is ok. Technically, I think it says something about the Nexus card being WHTI-compliant when entering using a kiosk - problem is that once you hit secondary (either by answering yes, or randomly), or if the machines are down - you are beyond the kiosk.

If you didn't have your passport, my guess is you:
- wouldn't have a Nexus card by the end of the conversation with the officer
- would be denied entry since you don't have proper documentation
- when you did travel back to the US, would have many more secondary inspections ahead of you

The previous responses make it clear that you must have your passport when using Nexus to fly, but the reality is that it MAY never be asked for or seen - BUT if it is, you must have it.

Has anyone signed up for the new US airport fast security PASS program as detailed here?

http://www.tsa.gov/what_we_do/participation.shtm

Trying to get my GOES login details from my wife (master of the passwords) so I can poke around, but would be interested if others have already enrolled or whatever.

(I have Nexus)

(This is a new US airport program being rolled that provides for faster screeing lines)

It's US citizens only, right (although you might be one)?

TSA Pre is only open to US Nexus holders during the current trial phase.

However, part of the recent border security agreement was that all Nexus holders will be eligible the program once it is rolled out nationally.

This applies in YOW as well. Quite annoying really. Last week the Immigration officer gave me a real dressing down because I lacked "sufficient" paperwork on my reasons for traveling to the US on business. Odd, because a few weeks earlier as I approached another Immigration officer, I had my paperwork in hand and he told me quite forcefully "you have nexus, you don't need to bother us with those papers"

So, who do you believe? I don't mind living by the rules but when the rules are in a constant state of flux depending on the moods it gets quite frustrating.

As much as i hate traveling through YYZ, I find their approach to Nexus quite standard.

What's supposed to come out of the GE machine?
 

Used GE for the first time at YYZ T1 on Friday as there was a line for the only working NEXUS machine. I fumbled around a bit, thought I did everything right, and eventually the machine printed out a little card, which I handed to the agent.

But he didn't like the card for some reason. "Where's the other one?" "What other one?" "Go back to the machine and see if there's something else there."

Well, there wasn't. Just printed the one thing. About 3" x 4". I wound having to get in line, and the agent was puzzled by this card - apparently it normally looks different. He kept it and said he was going to show it to his supervisor.

So - I'm still new at GE - what is it you are supposed to get? How big is the output? I wonder if the thing was out of paper and it only printed me half of what it was supposed to.

News to me. I got NEXUS/GE in November and have used it twice since then. Both times (YUL and IAD), I've gotten a single card.

My guess is that perhaps the officer you handed the GE receipt to wasn't trained on how GE works and was looking for the standard NEXUS receipt instead.

In my experience The Nexus machines only give you a the single yellow and white card, but the GE machines will give you 2 white cards, one to hand in to the agent and another that has "Keep For Your Records" printed on it.

Adrian

I hold a non-us non-canada passport, for me it prints two cards. one I-94 card, and one customs card.

Another reason for a passport
 

I arrived at T1 YYZ Friday and there was a line of about 20 people for the one operating Nexus machine. So I went to the regular line and the officer was very nice - he said the machines are supposed to be replacing him - he said that Nexus is fine at land borders but the airport is something else. I gave him my Nexus card and he said the passport is required at anything other than a Nexus machine. So I used my passport in both directions: at US secondary on the way to the US and CDN primary on the way home.
BTW the CRJ705 overhead luggage bins are a sad joke. My legal size carry on didn't fit but I solved it on the return by bagging the contents and placing the bag in the overhead and placing the luggage on the floor in front of me.

That's all you get - unless you normally fill out the longer green form (if you are non-Canadian or American, or if you are staying in the US on a TN). If you are just a typical CDN or US traveller, you get that little white card.

Can I use Global Entry if entering the US as a student? I mean normally I would surrender my I-94 when leaving the country (unless to Canada) and then get a new I-94 upon re-entering the US. Can the kiosks print off I-94s with permission to stay as D/S (Duration of Studies)?