Timeline for Trying to cross into Tijuana by foot without a passport?
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| Oct 17, 2023 at 7:39 | comment | added | phoog | A followup to my earlier comment: A look at the regulatory agendas for the last few years shows that "Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative (WHTI)--Noncompliant Traveler Fee" was abandoned as of Spring 2022 -- it was present until Fall 2021 in the "proposed rule" stage, but then it disappears. | |
| Sep 24, 2020 at 16:23 | comment | added | Tetsujin | Note that you don't ever want to join the 'non-US' queue getting back from TJ. You also don't want to ever take a car unless you've a day to spend queueing. Having walked over once with my American friends; on returning they arranged we should meet them at a bar near where we had parked, SanDiego side… which we did, a mere 6 hours later, having spent the intermediate time queuing with perfectly valid non-US documents + visa. | |
| Sep 24, 2020 at 6:02 | comment | added | ruakh | @nick012000: You're required to have your passport when you enter, but I don't think it counts as "re-enter[ing] the United States illegally" if you don't. (By analogy: in many jurisdictions, you're not allowed to bring a gun into a school. But if you do so, your crime isn't "entering the school illegally", it's "bringing a gun into the school". Likewise, if you're a U.S. citizen entering the U.S. without your passport, it's not "entering the U.S. illegally", it's "not bearing a passport while entering the U.S.") | |
| Sep 24, 2020 at 1:22 | comment | added | cpast | @stackoverblown Customs offenses. It's a federal crime to enter the US without submitting to customs inspection. | |
| Sep 23, 2020 at 13:31 | history | edited | DavidRecallsMonica | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Sep 23, 2020 at 12:36 | comment | added | nick012000 | @stackoverblown Probably nothing, but a few hundred of them at once might be able to clog up a border checkpoint pretty badly. | |
| Sep 23, 2020 at 12:23 | comment | added | stackoverblown | @nick012000 My point is if a US citizen, in good standing, decides to swim across Rio Grande from Mexico and enters the US that way. What is the authority going to charge him/her with? | |
| Sep 23, 2020 at 12:19 | comment | added | nick012000 | @stackoverblown See BeB00's comment immediately above mine - you're required to have a passport on you during re-entry, but there's no criminal penalty for not doing so. | |
| Sep 23, 2020 at 12:14 | comment | added | stackoverblown | @nick012000 A US citizen, who did not have his/her citizenship revoked, can enter the USA illegally? | |
| Sep 23, 2020 at 5:40 | comment | added | nick012000 | @BeB00 Now I'm wondering if there's been any pro-immigration protests where the (US citizen) protestors entered Mexico legally, disposed of their passports while in Mexico, then set about trying to re-enter the United States illegally. | |
| Sep 22, 2020 at 23:04 | comment | added | BeB00 | An interesting point for this is that while you do legally have to "bear" a US passport, there are explicitly no actual penalties for not doing so. You may be delayed, and you may have trouble proving that you are allowed entry, but you cant be prosecuted etc under this statute (travel.stackexchange.com/questions/157373/…) | |
| Sep 22, 2020 at 16:40 | history | edited | DavidRecallsMonica | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Sep 22, 2020 at 13:52 | comment | added | DavidRecallsMonica | @phoog Thanks for the correction. I amended the answer. | |
| Sep 22, 2020 at 13:52 | history | edited | DavidRecallsMonica | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Sep 22, 2020 at 7:08 | comment | added | Math Whiz | I believe you all. I am not crossing right now. I just hate this covid. It will be months before a passport is issued. Thank you all. | |
| Sep 22, 2020 at 7:07 | vote | accept | Math Whiz | ||
| Sep 22, 2020 at 4:14 | comment | added | Zach Lipton | Even if the Mexican authorities don't pay attention to you at the border, you may still be entering Mexico illegally (or continuing too far into Mexico without an FMM), which could potentially pose a problem should they pay attention to you later. | |
| Sep 22, 2020 at 3:45 | comment | added | phoog | 8 USC 1185 actually says that US citizens must "bear" a valid US passport, not that they must use it, although that's only really relevant for departures, and in any event it doesn't much matter in these circumstances. CBP is working on a fee for WHTI-noncompliant US citizens, which will probably make things somewhat smoother in case like this, provided the traveler can pay. | |
| Sep 22, 2020 at 2:54 | comment | added | WGroleau | Mexican law does require an FMM but there is no fee for less than seven days visit. When I entered through Nuevo Laredo a couple years ago (more than once), no one bothered to tell me to go to the office for the paperwork, much less to described the convoluted route to get to the place. | |
| Sep 22, 2020 at 2:34 | comment | added | Michael Hampton | I seem to recall that Mexico was planning to eventually check everyone at the border, rather than at the inland checkpoints. I don't recall when this was supposed to be in effect, but I don't think it is now. | |
| Sep 22, 2020 at 1:08 | comment | added | JonathanReez♦ | If OP is from Michigan, Minnesota, New York, Vermont or Washington they can also use an Enhanced drivers license instead. | |
| Sep 22, 2020 at 0:17 | history | edited | DavidRecallsMonica | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Sep 22, 2020 at 0:09 | history | answered | DavidRecallsMonica | CC BY-SA 4.0 |