Passports required for U.S. entry starting January 2007

Post ImageI guess this means I am going to have to get my passport renewed. Today, the U.S. Homeland Security Secretary revealed that the United States will start requiring travelers entering the country to show passports beginning January 23rd:

The department had been expected to institute the passport requirement for air travelers around the beginning of the year. Setting the date on Jan. 23 pushes the start past the holiday season.

The requirement marks a change for Americans, Canadians, Bermudians and some Mexicans.

No more driver’s license or birth certificate to gain entry. The article mentions that only about one quarter of Americans have a passport. I wonder what the numbers are like here in Canada?

Read: Yahoo News

4 thoughts on “Passports required for U.S. entry starting January 2007

  1. Maybe if the US wasn’t so worried about terrorists….Oh wait, because of their inept leadership since 2000, and the fact that under every Republican President since time began their foregin policy has done nothing but terrify people and then make them angry and hate the US, WE need passports. What am I going to do? Blow them up with Timbits?

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