[153737] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Dear Linkedin,
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Peter Kristolaitis)
Mon Jun 11 15:36:25 2012
Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2012 15:35:22 -0400
From: Peter Kristolaitis <alter3d@alter3d.ca>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <4FD64397.1000804@viagenie.ca>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 12-06-11 03:14 PM, Simon Perreault wrote:
> On 2012-06-11 15:05, Owen DeLong wrote:
>>> OK, someone shows you a Quebec driver's license. You ask for a
>>> passport, she says, I don't have one, and points at the blue word Plus
>>> after the words Permis de Conduire at the top of the license. Now
>>> what?
>>
>> To the best of my knowledge, ICE stopped accepting DL for admission
>> from Canada several years ago.
>
> Your knowledge needs an update! ;)
>
> http://www.saaq.gouv.qc.ca/en/driver_licence/licence_plus/licence_plus.php
>
>
> Simon
Yup, various Canadian provinces now issue "newer, better" driver's
licenses that are accepted by ICE for entry to the US by land or sea
only (not by air, you still need a passport or NEXUS for that). Here
in Ontario, they're called "Enhanced" driver's licenses, and only have
minor differences from regular driver's licenses -- they have the word
"Enhanced" on them, and they contain an RFID chip which is scanned at
the border for ID & verification purposes. Oh, and they cost an extra
$40 when you renew them. The enhanced licenses were rolled out at
pretty much the same time as the US entry requirements changed, so if
you were a keener and got an enhanced card when they were first
available, absolutely nothing would have changed for you, except that
your wallet is now a bit lighter and you have a shiny new card.
It's left as an exercise to the reader as to whether the word "Enhanced"
printed on a card and an RFID tag are, in fact, any more secure than
what we had before....
- Pete
