Re: [84attendees] passport cards and such, was YVR Checkin Counter

["John R Levine" <[e-mail]>]

> My understanding is that it serves in lieu of a passport for approved border 
> crossings by car or boat, but since you already have a passport there is no 
> real added benefit.

The card fits in your wallet while your passport doesn't, unless you have 
a rather larger wallet than most guys.  But the GE card is of only 
marginal use since you can only use it to travel FROM Canada, not TO 
Canada, so you need the passport anyway.  It does let you use the NEXUS 
lane at a land border crossing, which the GE sticker in your passport 
doesn't. That might be helpful since the border lines are invariably 
longer going south than going north (except of course at Detroit.)

I haven't gone to Mexico in a long time, but it's of even less use there 
because you can only use the SENTRI lane in a car that's been enrolled. 
So either you're hitching a ride with someone else with SENTRI, or you're 
walking bank to El Paso where there's a pedestrian readylane.

R's,
John