A.L. asks,

"Bonjour Travelmeister!
Wonderful new site you have here – just going to love it, I know!
Now, does, say a brother, need a Passport as a Canadian citizen, residing in Canada, wanting to cross into the US, by land, to drive down to GA and visit his sister, also a Canadian citizen, but a legal, green carded, resident of the US?
Danke"

ANSWER:

Here is what should be a fairly easy question to answer from A.L.

But like all things that involve the "Gub-ment" as my grandfather would say, there is no concrete answer.

Citizens of Canada, or "Canadia" as it should be called, since the residents are called Canadians.

anyway, I digress. Canada participates in the "Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative", which governs what sort of documents citizens and residents of N. America and the Caribbean need to travel WITHIN the Western Hemisphere.

Crossing into the U.S. by land (or sea), a Canadian citizen will need to present one of the following, a Passport, a NEXUS card, which allows a pre-screened individual expedited access for entry at NEXUS border crossings, an Enhanced Driver's license or a FAST card.

You can check for information on all these approved identification documents at the Canadian Border Patrol's website.

Thanks for the question, A.L.
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