Please Help with some travel information

[Niels Bohr 72]

Hello Canadians,

We are planning on a trip to enter Canada from the US. I am a US Citizen with a passport. My wife is a green card holder with an expired non-US passport.

How will my wife enter the country? Does she need to have a valid passport? In some web sites, it says you don't need a passport if you are a US green card holder while some others says it. Just want help with this since it'll be my first visit as well as my wife into Canada.

I will give you bonus points for helping me out. Thank you!

[Lemonslice 4,836]

Entry by land is possible using the green card, and return to the US - you can call CBSA to discuss 5066365064 or www.cbsa-asfc.gc.ca/travel-voyage/td-dv-eng.html#_s2a

[Kathryn41 3,205]

If you are driving across a land border crossing, she just needs her green card. She should carry her expired passport - it is a good idea for her to have a valid passport for her own country, regardless, but it isn't required in this circumstance - along with other proof of her identity. Canada will view her the same as a US citizen and allow her entry on the green card- proof that the US will allow her to re-enter the US after the visit and she won't be stranded in Canada. The US is only interested in her green card proving she is legally entitled to enter and l live in the US, and proof that she is the same person to whom the card was issued, thus using the expired passport.

If you intend to fly into Canada she will require a valid passport, as per regulations of the airlines. It is usually cheaper to fly to a US border city, rent a car and then drive across the border. That is what we do when we visit.

So, where are you going? There are lots of people here who can give you some really good suggestions of places to go and things to see and do.

http://can-am.gc.ca/visas/visit-visite.aspx?lang=eng

Edited July 7, 2014 by Kathryn41

[Niels Bohr 72]

Thank you Kathryn41. I repost if something else happens with it. I'll be in Montreal.