Traveling With eCOPR

[charliem]

US Border Service agents will always ask what your status is before letting you into the US (from Canada) and you need some document to show your status (a visa in a passport, PR card or something of the sort). There's no such thing as not needing a PR card!!
I've crossed the border so many times for work and this is what happens...always.

 

[Underhill]

US Border Service agents will always ask what your status is before letting you into the US (from Canada) and you need some document to show your status (a visa in a passport, PR card or something of the sort). There's no such thing as not needing a PR card!!
I've crossed the border so many times for work and this is what happens...always.

I crossed into the US nearly every day for years (pre-pandemic, and a few times since March 2020) using my US passport and not once have they ever asked me what my status was/is - even when I was driving a Canadian-plated vehicle.

If you're a US citizen entering the US with a US passport CBP has no reason to ask you what your status is. Non-US passport holders' experience may differ, but as I'm a US passport holder I wouldn't know. Perhaps this is what you're referring to? Non-US passport holders?

 

[Eli51]

The US will always let a US citizen in as long as they have a passport the question is being allowed back into Canada which there was a new covid law passed on June 21,2021 that if you travel in a private vehicle by land you can reenter without the PR card.

 

[armoured]

US Border Service agents will always ask what your status is before letting you into the US (from Canada) and you need some document to show your status (a visa in a passport, PR card or something of the sort). There's no such thing as not needing a PR card!!
I've crossed the border so many times for work and this is what happens...always.

The individual who asked this - and why it came up - was a US citizen. Hence status in Canada basically irrelevant - and certainly no need to document status in Canada with a PR card, as the person was concerned.

the question is being allowed back into Canada which there was a new covid law passed on June 21,2021 that if you travel in a private vehicle by land you can reenter without the PR card.

The question is indeed about being allowed back in Canada; but I don't think any law was passed due to covid allowing entry at land border without PR card - that's the way it was before covid, too. Whatever the law you're referring to is, it didn't make this change.

 

[MJSPARV]

US Border Service agents will always ask what your status is before letting you into the US (from Canada) and you need some document to show your status (a visa in a passport, PR card or something of the sort). There's no such thing as not needing a PR card!!
I've crossed the border so many times for work and this is what happens...always.

Ehh not my experience. US cbp may ask why you were in Canada, but if you're a us citizen they don't need proof of Canadain status. I am a US citizen and when I recently entered the us by land from Canada they asked where I live (Canada) and where in the US I was going to, and if I had any citrus fruit and said have a nice day. If you're a us citizen they really don't care if you have proof of your status in Canada because that's a Canadian problem not a US problem.

If you're not a us or Canadian citizen I guess they might care because if they find you inadmissible to the US they don't want to have an issue with telling you to turn around and go back to Canada.

 

[Eli51]

Once again with the new covid law made on June 21, 2021 you may enter Canada by a private vehicle without the PR card as you as you have eCOPR

 

[Eli51]

Is getting a ride with a friend in his/her car considered entering with a private vehicle?

 

[armoured]

Once again with the new covid law made on June 21, 2021 you may enter Canada by a private vehicle without the PR card as you as you have eCOPR

Source please. This is wrong, it was not new with whatever law you're referring to. It was possible before.

In fact technically don't even need the pr document at a border, if they can determine who you are and match to your pr record. (Not really advisable of course)

 

[Underhill]

Is getting a ride with a friend in his/her car considered entering with a private vehicle?

Yes.

 

[Eli51]

Thank You

 

[Eli51]

If I am a US citizen who just received my eCOPR of Canada a few weeks ago. I know it says you can only travel in a private vehicle to enter Canada until the PR card comes in the mail. My question is can I go on a commercial carried let's say Greyhound to enter the US from Canada with my eCOPR?

 

[MJSPARV]

If I am a US citizen who just received my eCOPR of Canada a few weeks ago. I know it says you can only travel in a private vehicle to enter Canada until the PR card comes in the mail. My question is can I go on a commercial carried let's say Greyhound to enter the US from Canada with my eCOPR?

No

 

[Eli51]

To MJPARV so my Own country won't let me enter with a us passport & an ECOPR?

 

[Eli51]

I mean into the us no Canada I know I can't enter Canada by a commercial vehicle

 

[MJSPARV]

I mean into the us no Canada I know I can't enter Canada by a commercial vehicle

Sorry I misunderstood. The us cares no one bit about your copr so you can enter in the us regardless of your status in Canada or what documentation you have of that status. They only need your us passport. Sorry for the confusion. I misread your question