On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 11:57 AM, Justin Quintal cestmoijustin@gmail.com wrote:
Well, i know that canadian citizens are allowed to enter USA legally without a visa for visiting or studying. http://canada.usembassy.gov/visas/information-for-canadians.html Since it's getting cold, people called "Snowbirds" are leaving Canada for USA. They are allowed to stay for 182 days.
Yep. Generally speaking, it is easiest for Canadians (i.e. bearers of Canadian passports) to enter the United States. The only thing easier is if you're a U.S. citizen or permanent resident returning to the U.S. It's a more relaxed system because people in border communities (for example: Detroit, Michigan and Windsor, Ontario) tend to cross the border frequently. Migration between the U.S. and Canada is governed by the Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative, which allows several different kinds of documentation instead of a passport: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Hemisphere_Travel_Initiative. For what it's worth, though, it isn't like the old days where a birth certificate or voter registration would have been enough.
2011/11/2 Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com
On 2 November 2011 11:35, Roan Kattouw roan.kattouw@gmail.com wrote:
That said, I hear it's possible to get a visa from a US consulate in Canada, which I presume will have shorter waiting times than some consulates elsewhere.
The waiting times will probably be pretty short for Canadians (in those cases where they need visas). I would expect foreign nationals to have quite a long wait, since the US consulate in Canada won't have experts on Iranians and what checks need to done and won't have systems in place to do those checks quickly. Countries bordering Iran probably do such checks reasonably frequently, so would probably be quicker.
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