Traveling to the US

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• Handymans342 Member Posts: 10,375 ✭✭✭✭✭

  July 2019

  Just cross over in a boat like they do down south and say you want asylum. No papers needed! LOL

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• Liberty44140 Member Posts: 4,410 ✭✭✭✭✭

  July 2019

  you need the CBP ROAM App and you can check in from your smart phone:
  
  https://www.cbp.gov/travel/pleasure-boats-private-flyers/pleasure-boat-overview/roam
  

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• rasbury Member Posts: 8,483 ✭✭✭✭✭

  July 2019

  Do you need a passport? I lived in northern ND and we went back and forth all the time...

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• JFDee Member Posts: 27 ✭

  July 2019

  Yes I do need a passport but I think before I can get off my boat I need to call in, then they call me back and I give them information

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• Liberty44140 Member Posts: 4,410 ✭✭✭✭✭

  July 2019

  You must call in through the app 

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• Cableguy Greg Member Posts: 5,040 ✭✭✭✭✭

  July 2019

  rasbury said:

  Do you need a passport? I lived in northern ND and we went back and forth all the time...

  Since 9/11, you need a passport to cross the border.
  

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• rasbury Member Posts: 8,483 ✭✭✭✭✭

  July 2019

  Ah...I'm talking 50 years ago...

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• Stodge Member Posts: 2,738 ✭✭✭✭

  July 2019

  If you call in by phone they will tell you to use the app instead.  The app just went on-line last year and they've been pushing it hard.

  2002 FV 342 on Lake St. Clair - Past Commodore SHC - Vessel Examiner USCGAUX

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• Liberty44140 Member Posts: 4,410 ✭✭✭✭✭

  July 2019

  yep - I used the app last summer and again a few weeks ago. Works great. Last summer they made me video chat through the app with an officer. A few weeks ago I was approved as in to the US right through the app with no chat. You get an email confirmation that your in. In the US we have to pay $30 per year for the privileged of using the app and returning home, but I dont think there are any fee's for those hailing from the land of Molson. Will tell you when you set up the app. It asks for all kinds of info including pics of your passport.

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• Stodge Member Posts: 2,738 ✭✭✭✭

  July 2019 edited July 2019

  @Liberty44140 I don't pay to use the app, but I do pay for my Nexus.  That averages to $20/year ($50/5 years per person) and includes TSA-pre.

  2002 FV 342 on Lake St. Clair - Past Commodore SHC - Vessel Examiner USCGAUX

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• Liberty44140 Member Posts: 4,410 ✭✭✭✭✭

  July 2019

  Stodge said:

  @Liberty44140 I don't pay to use the app, but I do pay for my Nexus.  That averages to $20/year ($50/5 years per person) and includes TSA-pre.

  Yea we considered that but the sticker was just a quick online payment wheras I believe Nexus is a more in depth process with an in person interview. May have to do that next year though so that the Admiral can join me at pre check  

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• Stodge Member Posts: 2,738 ✭✭✭✭

  July 2019

  Liberty44140 said:

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  Stodge said:

  @Liberty44140 I don't pay to use the app, but I do pay for my Nexus.  That averages to $20/year ($50/5 years per person) and includes TSA-pre.

  Yea we considered that but the sticker was just a quick online payment wheras I believe Nexus is a more in depth process with an in person interview. May have to do that next year though so that the Admiral can join me at pre check  

  Ohhhh you're referring to the "over 30 foot" sticker?  Or what they call the transponder sticker?  Small square with last digit of year on it?
  
  Those have been required for a long time.  Didn't realize the app wanted them too.  Good to know.  We get those anyway.

  2002 FV 342 on Lake St. Clair - Past Commodore SHC - Vessel Examiner USCGAUX

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• Liberty44140 Member Posts: 4,410 ✭✭✭✭✭

  July 2019

  Yep @Stodge, exactly the sticker. App asks for the sticker number, or the order confirmation number for the sticker if you just ordered the sticker and it has not come in yet. 

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• JFDee Member Posts: 27 ✭

  July 2019

  App and info all loaded in, going to head to Seaway boat club tomorrow.

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