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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