Roni07 said:
My wife is US citizen and has a Nexus card and she is a CDN PR. When she enters Canada, Does she have to go through CDN immigration officer with her PR card or cans she just enter through the Nexus lane with her US passport ?
Does it matter ? Does the CDN immigration need to record when she is coming etc or is her passport automatically tracked ?
Thanks
I concur with
keesio's observation. There should be no problem continuing to use the
Nexus entry. And if for some reason there was due to a recent change in status (I take it there has been a recent change in status), it would be no big deal, and she would still be eligible for the
Nexus entry process going forward.
For clarification: the observations by
ramkris are
NOT relevant for U.S. citizens. U.S. citizens are not governed by the changes and will not need eTA to fly to Canada, and thus will still be able to fly to Canada using their U.S. passports without any problem.
While I almost always displayed my PR card when crossing the border into Canada, when I was a PR, occasionally (in the course of very brief, day trips) I was not focused when approaching the border and presented my U.S. passport and the entry experience was, nonetheless, exactly the same as when I presented my PR card. I have done similarly since becoming a citizen, my wife handing me my U.S. passport rather than my Canadian one as we approached the PIL booth, and not a blink difference in how the exchange goes. This is
NOT the case going the other way, into the U.S. They insist on seeing my U.S. passport. They occasionally also demanded to see my PR card (when I was a PR), in
addition to my U.S. passport. I have dual citizenship acquaintances who let their U.S. passports expire and then, when going to the U.S., ended up in secondary and rather confrontational "interviews" punctuated with severe admonitions about presenting a valid U.S. passport when entering the U.S.
The latter is not to describe how things will necessarily go at the border. Individual experience varies extensively, depending on many factors. But for those who are a U.S. citizen and also a Canadian PR, who are living in Canada, and who cross the border relatively often, the experience
typically is perfunctory. CBSA seems rather competent in separating problematic travelers from the majority, causing minimal interference for the majority. (Sure, there are exceptions . . . more going the other way, into the U.S., but they are very much the exception.)
