Hi! We have a complicated question about travel between India, Canada and the U.S.
Our newborn daughter is an Indian citizen with an Indian passport, who was born in the U.S. (thus under U.S. law she is considered to be a U.S. citizen too).
The problem we are trying to solve is our daughter´s travel between the U.S. and India. If we get her a U.S. passport, she will lose her Indian citizenship, a result we are trying to avoid. Unfortunately, U.S. law requires her to use a U.S. passport when entering and leaving the U.S., and also there is no way under U.S. law to express a choice in the matter of her citizenship at her young age.
So, we are considering getting her a Nexus card and a Canadian visa in her Indian passport. The idea would be: we fly from India to Canada, she enters Canada with the visa in her Indian passport, we drive from Canada to the U.S., she enters the U.S. with the Nexus card. Voila! She doesn´t need to lose her Indian citizenship to make the trip to India!
We have carefully read all announcements and instructions on the Nexus program and have not seen anything specifically forbidding this plan. However, the designers of the Nexus program probably never foresaw this kind of use, so we really wonder whether it´s going to work.
Can anyone give us a pointer to more detailed information about the Nexus program? Our questions are:
1) From Canada´s point of view is it acceptable to enter using a visa and leave using a Nexus card?
2) From the U.S. point of view, is it acceptable to travel from a third country to Canada and then enter the U.S. using a Nexus card?
3) What is the Nexus interview process like? We expect the officer to ask us what´s the purpose of our travel to Canada. Is there much chance our application would be denied because of the unusual nature of our travel plans?
Thanks,
Tamtom
Our newborn daughter is an Indian citizen with an Indian passport, who was born in the U.S. (thus under U.S. law she is considered to be a U.S. citizen too).
The problem we are trying to solve is our daughter´s travel between the U.S. and India. If we get her a U.S. passport, she will lose her Indian citizenship, a result we are trying to avoid. Unfortunately, U.S. law requires her to use a U.S. passport when entering and leaving the U.S., and also there is no way under U.S. law to express a choice in the matter of her citizenship at her young age.
So, we are considering getting her a Nexus card and a Canadian visa in her Indian passport. The idea would be: we fly from India to Canada, she enters Canada with the visa in her Indian passport, we drive from Canada to the U.S., she enters the U.S. with the Nexus card. Voila! She doesn´t need to lose her Indian citizenship to make the trip to India!
We have carefully read all announcements and instructions on the Nexus program and have not seen anything specifically forbidding this plan. However, the designers of the Nexus program probably never foresaw this kind of use, so we really wonder whether it´s going to work.
Can anyone give us a pointer to more detailed information about the Nexus program? Our questions are:
1) From Canada´s point of view is it acceptable to enter using a visa and leave using a Nexus card?
2) From the U.S. point of view, is it acceptable to travel from a third country to Canada and then enter the U.S. using a Nexus card?
3) What is the Nexus interview process like? We expect the officer to ask us what´s the purpose of our travel to Canada. Is there much chance our application would be denied because of the unusual nature of our travel plans?
Thanks,
Tamtom