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01/31/2008
News / More IDs needed to come home to USAmericans returning home from Canada and Mexico now need more than a driver's license to cross the border.New border-crossing rules that take effect today require travelers to show a passport or a combination of other documents, such as a certified copy of a birth certificate, before they can enter the country. Travel agents and homeland security officials are bracing for delays and confusion at border checkpoints this week even though they have been warning travelers for months. The new rules, part of a nationwide effort to improve security at the border, are a dramatic change from the more open checkpoints that have traditionally greeted Americans. For years, all they needed to cross was a valid driver's license. "For the safety of the American people, the United States cannot have an honor system at the border," said Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff. Although a variety of documents still will get travelers in, travel agents say their best advice is to play it safe and get a passport. "It's confusing as heck," said Herb Reisenfeld, director of group and incentive travel for Provident Travel in Montgomery. "But as a rule of thumb, I tell everybody to just get a passport." Without one, travelers will need a driver's license or identification card and another document, such as a certified copy of a birth certificate, a military identification card or a certificate of naturalization. The rules apply to anyone entering the country by land or sea, and previously applied to air travel. The requirements will get tougher in June 2009, when everyone must have a passport to enter. Reisenfeld said many cruise lines and bus tours already are requiring passports. Millions of Americans have followed that advice in the past year. The State Department issued a record 18.4 million passports in the fiscal year ending Sept. 30, 2007 - up from 12.1 million in 2006. The pace of applications has slowed, but not much. "It's remained really high," said Bonni Manies, a U.S. Postal Service spokeswoman in Cincinnati. "Amazingly enough, some people are still finding out they have to have a passport." More than 120 post offices in Greater Cincinnati now process passport applications and it takes four to six weeks for the passport to arrive. That's down from as much as 14 weeks when applications were at their peak last year, Manies said. The cost of a passport is $100, but travelers also can choose to get a $45 passport card, which works only for land crossings from Canada and Mexico. BY DAN HORN | DHORN@ENQUIRER.COM Source: http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080131/NEWS01/801310374/1056/COL02 |
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