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Visa Issues for Canadian Citizens Traveling in the U.S. |
9/9/2004
Generally Canadian citizens do not need a visa traveling to the U.S. Neither a machine-readable passport is required for Canadian citizens. However, the following Canadian citizens traveling to the U.S. in the following nonimmigrant visa classifications must carry a visa:
E-1 Treaty Trader
E-2 Treaty Investor
K-1 Fiancé
K-2, K-3, and K-4
V-1 and V-2
NATO officials, representatives and employees assigned to the U.S.
Accordingly, Canadian citizens traveling in other nonimmigrant visa classifications need neither a visa nor a machine readable passport.
Some people mistakenly think that Canada is part of the Visa Waiver Program and Canadian citizens require a visa or a machine readable passport. The visa and passport waiver for the Canadian citizens comes from other section of the immigration statute and not from the Visa Waiver Program statute.
Accordingly, the recent changes in requirement for nonimmigrant admission from the Visa Waiver Program countries (27) have no effect on the Canadian citizens traveling in the U.S.
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