{"id":3029,"date":"2008-05-29T09:36:40","date_gmt":"2008-05-29T13:36:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=3029"},"modified":"2008-05-29T09:36:40","modified_gmt":"2008-05-29T13:36:40","slug":"canada-to-us-passport-or-enhanced-license","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/29\/canada-to-us-passport-or-enhanced-license\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada to U.S. &#8212; Passport or Enhanced License?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Regular visitor Lisa from Rochester sent me <a href=\"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/c\/?1463\">this story from a local TV station (WHAM channel 13 in Rochester)<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>By next summer, drivers will need a passport or an enhanced driver license to return to the United States from Canada.<\/p>\n<p>An enhanced license will look similar to the one you already have with an American flag on the front.<\/p>\n<p>A radio frequency chip inside will also allow border guards access to important extra information the driver provided to the DMV to prove your citizenship.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s as good as a passport for re-entering the US from Canada, Mexico, The Caribbean, or Bermuda.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Regular visitor Lisa from Rochester sent me this story from a local TV station (WHAM channel 13 in Rochester): By next summer, drivers will need a passport or an enhanced driver license to return to the United States from Canada. An enhanced license will look similar to the one you already have with an American&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3029\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}