Would there be any issue to re-enter the U.S. with just a certificate of naturalization, without a U.S. passport?
Thanks a lot.
Would there be any issue to re-enter the U.S. with just a certificate of naturalization, without a U.S. passport?
Thanks a lot.
Would there be any issue to re-enter the U.S. with just a certificate of naturalization, without a U.S. passport?
Thanks a lot.
I believe I asked a similar question around the time I did my oath. I believe air travel is out of the question, all U.S. citizens need a passport. Driving to Canada or Mexico, the certificate might work, the same way a birth certificate and driver's license will work, but it might need a trip to secondary inspection to verify that the certificate is legitimate. However, I don't have proof of this. The rules about land crossings are changing as we speak. Make sure you check the travel.state.gov website or any other reliable source of information about land crossing. My best advice is to get a passport.
Would there be any issue to re-enter the U.S. with just a certificate of naturalization, without a U.S. passport?
Thanks a lot.
Nowadays you need a passport to enter Canada. I don't know about Mexico, but a valid passport is a requirement to legally enter Canada. Please make a note of it.
Citizens still do not need passports to enter Canada but if you travel by air this is an academic question because you need a passport to return to the U.S.
This is correct, you have never needed a passport to travel by land into Canada and back. This may be something comming this year, but present time you do not.
I heard that some people have been able to come back in with their Naturalization cert, but it can cause problems though. Not sure if they encountered secondary inspections because of it or not. Why not just expediate your passport or have you already submitted it and suddenly there's an emergency to attend in the other country?
Thanks everyone for advise!
As far as I know, even with in-person expedited passport application, it's up to a 2 week wait, which I may not be able to afford.
An option I am considering is to travel to Russia with my Russian passport, and then get a U.S. passport via the U.S. embassy in Moscow, according to them it only takes 5-8 business days.
I believe it should not be a problem to leave the U.S. without a U.S. passport, just with the nat cert?
Thanks.