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Subject: Carry on baggage..allowed sizes change..got a bag suggestion?

TomDart opened this issue on Feb 02, 2008 · 16 posts


iloco posted Mon, 04 February 2008 at 11:34 AM

Good point Tom about passport.
 Lst summer as I crossed above spokane washington at Candian Customs I was detained for over 3 hrs of interogation.
   They confiscated what tobacco I had for my friends I was going to spend a week with in Canada and tryed to make me tell them if I had had any offenses in the US.   40 yrs ago I did have a few violations but how many I didnt know.    I kelp telling customs I didnt know and would not answer till I knew when I got back home.  They said if I had 2 I could not go into canada.  I said for the record I had one untill I got back home to find out.

Once back I applied for a DMV record and it came back clean.  Can Only go back 11 years in Va and that is for anyone including Canada customs.    I also sent off for a criminal record check to be on safe side and it came back clean as a whistle.
 Canad put me in their computer system to be on watch if I came back again.
I will personaly take my copys of records with me next summer and give to them and tell them to take me out their system as I am not a criminal as they wanted me to be. :)

Be prepared if you go into another country and especialy Canada. :)  Wasn't this way before the passport deal. :)

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