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Re: So, here goes reentry to the US WITHOUT A PASSPORT.........

By: weco in FFFT3 | Recommend this post (0)
Tue, 17 Sep 19 6:39 AM | 80 view(s)
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Hey, that's better than I expected as I began to read of your quandary...

I've had great experiences going into Canada, coming back tot he US, not always so good, in fact a tad irritating, treated as criminals without cause, overly abrupt, etc... And that was before the current admin...

Admittedly one trip home was a little unusual because we'd come through, parked, walked back into Canada to check on VAT tax but in the end it wasn't worth it, so came to the Canadian side again, but they had to send up on an internal maze to get over to the US side, where walking up to the gate was evidently unusual.. In the end, made it back OK, but it could have been simpler..

Anyway, Welcome Home! Now the fun of getting replacements! Ackkk..

weco


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So, here goes reentry to the US WITHOUT A PASSPORT.........
By: zzstar in FFFT3
Tue, 17 Sep 19 1:52 AM 		Msg. 52735 of 65535

Driving back this morning from Montreal. For some reason significant other said she had the passports in the suitcase in the trunk. I said ok we’ll stop at the duty free at the border and take them out.

Get to border, go in the duty free parking lot, take out suitcase, NO PASSPORTS! Ohhlalaaaa...

Call hotels in Quebec and Montreal, nothing reported found. Passports had been last seen, reportedly, in Montreal in the suitcase.

Now what? F Me.

She decides to go to the border, 300 yards away, as she has also a passport card, good for Canada and Mexico, so she could reenter Canada if shit hit the fan. I stay at the parking lot in the car annoyed and pissed off, thinking how much hassle and time lost this was going to be.

Twenty minutes later she sends me a text: No problem. Get in line, and tell the guy I’m in the building, and we are waiting for you.

Ok, long wait, get to the guy, tell him I’m the one without a passport, he says “”I know about you, do you have a driver’s license”? I give him the license, a FL license by now, which you cannot get without a passport or proof of citizenship. He asks “ Are you a citizen”?

Yes.

“You live in FL”.

NY and FL.

He goes on his screen, and then the guy from the building comes over and says “ok, I’ll take him over there, no problem, I’ll check on the ......”. The other guy says “Well, it all came up”.

OK, Please drive to the secondary check area, by the building. I go there, and the guy there says “ you can go”. I said “ I can’t go because the guy who came over has my license”. As I said it the other guy crossed over, gave my license, and they said have a good day. We talked a little about the passports, and they said someone is making very good money off of them, they are highly sought.

Never thought, it would be so quick and easy.

So what happened to the passports?

I think they were stolen from the room. How? Can’t speculate on that. Bizarre. A Hilton. The cleaning woman would not have taken them. Her job on the line, etc. How and who? Who knows. Big cities, big shit.

Can’t complain, though, they were extremely friendly and courteous at the border. Kudos. At some point they told her “don’t worry, you’re home now.”

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