No Passport for Spring Break? No Worries Here...
Monday February 11, 2008
Forgot to, or couldn't, get a passport for spring break? Well, no passport is needed to cross US state lines, though it feels like you're rockin a different country to get on a plane in the snow and step off into 80 degree balminess like that found under the sun in South Beach and other US spring break hot spots. Sunning yourself on Caribbean sand seems like another world altogether: do that without a passport in colonial Puerto Rico and the chi chi US Virgin Islands: no passport required (believe it!). You can drive to Mexico,
where the party may be pretty big this year. And ski resorts from Colorado to Canada (drive there without a passport) are some cool places to be for spring break 2008.
Read up and worry not if a passport didn't make the cut in your spring break budget this year:
Related: Passports Changes and Rules | Documents Needed for Mexico-US Travel | Spring Break 101 | Spring Break Hot Spots 2008 | How to Rush a Passport Application
Photo © Kathleen Crislip
where the party may be pretty big this year. And ski resorts from Colorado to Canada (drive there without a passport) are some cool places to be for spring break 2008.
Read up and worry not if a passport didn't make the cut in your spring break budget this year:
Related: Passports Changes and Rules | Documents Needed for Mexico-US Travel | Spring Break 101 | Spring Break Hot Spots 2008 | How to Rush a Passport Application
Photo © Kathleen Crislip
Comments
No info if a non-US-citizen needs a visa to travel from US to Mexico.
there are links to things all about on going to mexico and all about the visa. you just need a tourist card.
i live in san diego, ca and you need two forms of id when you enter back into the united states. this rule started jan 31st, 2008. i didn’t know and was questioned. no harm but i have to make sure i take my passport or id with second form of id. second form id is birth certificate, resident card, native american id card, tribal card..
Yeah, Rosalyn is right – all the info is here: Documents needed for US-Mexico Travel. When I came back from Mexico last week, which I do a lot, they were way more official-acting than usual about asking to see documents. One US border guy was a real jerk, in fact. I always carry my passport anyway, but I could see it was a bit of a hassle (probably magnified by the jerk guy, though) for the people who didn’t know they now needed a birth certificate, etc., instead of just being able to say, yo, I’m from the US.
thnx