Your plan won’t work if you are coming to Canada by air and you need an eTA because you need a valid passport to apply for the eTA. The eTA requirement is for everyone from a visa-exempt country who flies to or in Canada, regardless of how long you plan on being in Canada.
I don’t know if your plan would work if you crossed at a land border; I’ve only encountered travelling on an expired US passport which I know is not your case. My suggestion is to contact CBSA (Canadian Border Services Agency) and get the information straight from the horse’s mouth, so to speak. As well, you should contact US Customs and Border Protection to make sure you can get back into the US.
During our recent 3 month road trip from LA to NYC we used my existing phone (iphone 4s) with a straighttalk mobile SIM which we purchased from Walmart. The price was roughly $55 for the card (and one month plan) and then $45 for every monthly top-up after that (no lock-in plan) which included something along the lines of unlimited calls and 3GB of data. (Bring Your Own Phone
The service was quick and worked everywhere from rural back roads in Utah to off the coast of Louisiana and everywhere in between. It was perfectly fine for facebook, blog updates, google maps navigation and buying any tickets/accommodation online.
The service was quick and worked everywhere from rural back roads in Utah to off the coast of Louisiana and everywhere in between. It was perfectly fine for facebook, blog updates, google maps navigation and buying any tickets/accommodation online.
I think you may be asking because of the upcoming change in TSA requirements that will make driver’s licenses from nine states invalid for getting on planes within the US on January 22, 2018, unless they get on board with the REAL ID act. This is different from the requirements you will need for entering the US.
As a US citizen, you will be able to enter on your US passport without problem, and can renew your driver’s license. However, if you’re going from the US back to your home after January 22, 2018, and your driver’s license is from one of these nine states:
Kentucky, Maine, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, and Washington
then do not use your driver’s license at the TSA checkpoint; expect to use your passport as your primary means to get through. But in any case you will not need to get a new ID.
If you are bringing a phone with you then you will need to ensure it is unlocked (not a huge deal in Australia and easy to do, but carrier/service lock-ins might be different elsewhere) and then need an internet connection to activate the service (plenty of free wifi in the US so won't be a drama
Most countries base Visa policy on various factors but among the more important are reciprocity (whether the other country requires visas of your nationals) and the probability that citizens of your country will return on or before the expiration date of their visa.
Among the wealthy countries, including Australia, Canada, Member States of the European Union, Japan, Liechtenstein, New Zealand, Norway, Singapore and Switzerland there are few if any restrictions. Past experience confirms that when citizens of these countries visit other countries they return home.
There are very few Canadians living illegally in the United States, and thus Trump has never called for a wall between our two countries. Europe’s Schengen zone is based on the free flow of persons between neighboring European States; no visa required. The fact is that most non-Spanish Europeans who visit Ibiza, return home.
Due to past experience the same confidence in the desire to return to the country of one’s nationality is not placed in citizens of so-called third-world countries.
Adding to what Kenneth I Altman said, I cannot emphasize enough the importance of following the instructions sent to you by the Department of State.
Without knowing the specifics of the situation, I'd guess the issue was one of the following:
1. Insufficient parental identification submitted. Did the person who accepted your application make copies of the front and back of both parents' government-issued IDs? If so, how was the quality of the copy? I typically try to use a high-quality color copier for ID copies.
2. Child's birth certificate. Was the original birth certificate submitted, or was it a photocopy? Did the birth certificate itself have all the required signatures on it? Was it issued by the state in which the child was born? Was it filed within a year of the child's date of birth? Again, I don't know the specifics of your case, but those are all reasons the Department of State might not approve an application the first time through.
3. Or, as you mentioned, if both parents did not sign the application, they'll definitely contact you for more information.
If the issue was with the person who accepted the application, the Department of State would have contacted the facility manager for the county clerk's office where you applied, and this would have most likely been solved by an email, phone call, or fax.
I had an experience similar to this a couple weeks back at the facility I manage. A customer from a couple weeks earlier came in and demanded we "fix" whatever it was we "screwed up" so she could get her passport. Instead of being defensive and denying that the agent who assisted her had made a mistake (she hadn't - which I verified with the Department of State later that same day), I asked to see what she was sent. The problem wasn't with the photo quality, the payment, the agent's signature, or the documents submitted. The problem (the exact nature of which I still don't know) was that the staff member at the Department of State responsible for adjudicating this customer's application saw something else that, in his or her opinion, warranted additional scrutiny.
At that point, the only person who could resolve the issue was the customer herself, as the letter she received asked for additional forms of identification.
Good luck - I hope you've resolved this issue by now!
Without knowing the specifics of the situation, I'd guess the issue was one of the following:
1. Insufficient parental identification submitted. Did the person who accepted your application make copies of the front and back of both parents' government-issued IDs? If so, how was the quality of the copy? I typically try to use a high-quality color copier for ID copies.
2. Child's birth certificate. Was the original birth certificate submitted, or was it a photocopy? Did the birth certificate itself have all the required signatures on it? Was it issued by the state in which the child was born? Was it filed within a year of the child's date of birth? Again, I don't know the specifics of your case, but those are all reasons the Department of State might not approve an application the first time through.
3. Or, as you mentioned, if both parents did not sign the application, they'll definitely contact you for more information.
If the issue was with the person who accepted the application, the Department of State would have contacted the facility manager for the county clerk's office where you applied, and this would have most likely been solved by an email, phone call, or fax.
I had an experience similar to this a couple weeks back at the facility I manage. A customer from a couple weeks earlier came in and demanded we "fix" whatever it was we "screwed up" so she could get her passport. Instead of being defensive and denying that the agent who assisted her had made a mistake (she hadn't - which I verified with the Department of State later that same day), I asked to see what she was sent. The problem wasn't with the photo quality, the payment, the agent's signature, or the documents submitted. The problem (the exact nature of which I still don't know) was that the staff member at the Department of State responsible for adjudicating this customer's application saw something else that, in his or her opinion, warranted additional scrutiny.
At that point, the only person who could resolve the issue was the customer herself, as the letter she received asked for additional forms of identification.
Good luck - I hope you've resolved this issue by now!
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