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What do you need to get a Canadian Passport?

If a person is both american and canadian do they need a passport to get into canada?

  • Also if a person is canadian and has a green card because they are living in america do they need a passport to get back into canada? BTW: This is just for visiting not living there

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    After June 1 - yes. If you have dual citizenship, you should carry the passport of the country where you are residing. So if you live in San Francisco for example but are a Canadian and and America citizen, carry your American passport. If you live in Calgary but have both American and Canadian passports, carry your Canadian passport. Or you can call Tel.: 1-800-267-6788 (in Canada and the U.S.) or 613-944-6788 (Ottawa) like I just did and get the same answer and the answers to any other questions you have on this subject. Canadian citizens with American green cards need to carry both their passport and their greencard. Hope this helps. Edit: Oh! Loyalist. Time to join the rest of us in the 21st century. I don't know about anyone else, but I am a Canadian, not a colonist.

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Yes you do . .EVERYONE (US and Canadian citizens) requires a passport to enter Canada as of June 1st.

North of 49

you need a passport to cross any nations border whether you are of that nationality or not.

texasbonz

Yes you will need a passport and your green card

RealityIsHere

If a person has dual-citizenship (American/Canadian) they will need a passport of the country they live in, effective June 1st, 2009 to return to Canada. Otherwise birth-certificate is okay until then, unless you're flying into Canada, in which case you need your passport. If you are a Canadian living and working in the USA, that does not necessarily make you a citizen of the USA. I think you have to have American citizenship before you can claim to be American.

epona

In my opinion, there is no such thing as being "both" American and Canadian. You cannot be both Loyalist and Patriot.

AlbertaBoy

better safe than sorry, take it along.

Sean

Good question! Yes, you do. see site below, fill in all the blanks and click for the info. You need your Canadain passport and your green card.

Charlie

Well several years ago you didn't need a passport to get fro Canada to the U.S. but we have started to get this problem with terrorists invading the U.S. through the Canadian boarder, so yes now you do need a passport.

Chere

No Im Canadian and before I got my passport I crossed the boarder all the time to go shopping or on vacation.

Belle

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