You don't really have to be that old. The passport requirement only took
effect in June 2009.
Prior to that, as of Jan 31, 2008 "documents denoting citizenship and
identity", e.g. Birth Certificate & Driver's License, were required,
although I think that by 2008 all states had changed over to a Driver's
license with photo ID; something that had nothing whatsoever to do with
actually establishing identity as much as showing whether you were old
enough to buy beer.
BEFORE THAT, all that was required was "oral declaration of citizenship"
... unless, of course, you "looked foreign".
They've also come up with a new thing called a "passport card" that you
can use for travel by land or water (although NOT for air travel) within
North America.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passport_card
I'm afraid we will all eventually be required to carry one as our
national ID card.
From: "P. J. Alling"
I remember when you could do that with a short form birth certificate
and a regular old drivers license from pretty much anywhere in the
US, and they didn't have pictures on the licenses. But I'm old and I
remember when both Canada and the US were more or less free
countries.
On 2/19/2012 8:14 PM, Stan Halpin wrote:
In at least some U.S. states you can now get an "enhanced" drivers
license which you can use in lieu of a passport for crossings
to/from Canada, Mexico, and IIRC some portions of the Caribbean.
I've tried it, it works. Maybe they have a similar Canadian
offering?
stan
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