You’re a Canadian citizen traveling or residing abroad and you suddenly realize that your Canadian passport has expired. Are you going to be allowed back into Canada with an expired passport? Probably, since countries must welcome back their citizens. But, it’s best to obtain a replacement before you travel via land or water across international boundaries. You [...]
Oh no! Your U.S. visitor visa or your valid passport with a 10-year U.S. visitor visa attached is lost or stolen. Now what do you do?
1. Go to the police station in the city or town where your documents were lost or stolen and file a police report. The police may want to see copies [...]
Blame inflation, but it’s getting more expensive to apply for a nonimmigrant visa.
Nonimmigrant visa application fees — also called Machine-Readable Visa (MRV) and Border Crossing Card (BCC) fees — have increased as of June 4 to cover the cost of processing them. This increase applies both to nonimmigrant visas placed in passports and to border crossing cards issued to certain applicants in Mexico.
A Canadian citizen has a U.S. Consular Report of Birth Abroad certificate and will be entering the United States as more than just a visitor — for school or work. She doesn’t have time to apply for a U.S. passport. Is the birth abroad certificate enough to cross without problems?
Short answer, yes. She should have [...]
Are you a Canadian Permanent Resident/Landed Immigrant or a foreign national — a non-Canadian citizen — in Canada and want to visit the United States for a brief stay?
If you are not a citizen of one of the Visa Waiver Program countries, you will need to obtain a visitor visa in order to enter the [...]
