If you do a short trip to the USA, download the ArriveCan app ahead of time!

smacd wrote: ↑ This deserves its own thread. If you're planning a short trip to the USA now that the testing rules for returning Canadians have changed, download the ArriveCan app!!!! I had my federal vaccine QR code and my passport and upon arriving back to the Canadian side (after spending 45 minutes collecting my 3 parcels and getting gas) I was given the option of either going back into the USA and downloading the app and registering the trip, or quarantining for 14 days! Fortunately, I had pre purchased 100mbs of US data 2 years ago as an add-on for my Koodo prepaid plan. Of the 15 or so cars trying to return at the same time as I was, at least 12 were in the same boat as me, scrambling to register in the US after being turned away. It was a nightmare!

smacd wrote: ↑ This deserves its own thread. If you're planning a short trip to the USA now that the testing rules for returning Canadians have changed, download the ArriveCan app!!!! I had my federal vaccine QR code and my passport and upon arriving back to the Canadian side (after spending 45 minutes collecting my 3 parcels and getting gas) I was given the option of either going back into the USA and downloading the app and registering the trip, or quarantining for 14 days! Fortunately, I had pre purchased 100mbs of US data 2 years ago as an add-on for my Koodo prepaid plan. Of the 15 or so cars trying to return at the same time as I was, at least 12 were in the same boat as me, scrambling to register in the US after being turned away. It was a nightmare!

ritzcrv wrote: ↑ 20 years ago suddenly we all needed id to cross the border. 10 years ago we all needed passports or enhanced id cards to cross the border. To see reports of so many people who have refused to read about how to cross the land border, as they've worked to reopen it for months is depressing.

Why are people so stupid?

smacd wrote: ↑ I think the confusion (at least in my case) stems from the rules around 72 hour trips. I'm not sure I saw anywhere that we needed the ArriveCan app. I thought my federal QR code and passport would be enough. I shudder to think what would happen with elderly folks. Believe it or not, many don't have smart phones or wouldn't know how to download an app, even if they did.

smacd wrote: ↑ I think the confusion (at least in my case) stems from the rules around 72 hour trips. I'm not sure I saw anywhere that we needed the ArriveCan app. I thought my federal QR code and passport would be enough. I shudder to think what would happen with elderly folks. Believe it or not, many don't have smart phones or wouldn't know how to download an app, even if they did.

smacd wrote: ↑ I think the confusion (at least in my case) stems from the rules around 72 hour trips. I'm not sure I saw anywhere that we needed the ArriveCan app. I thought my federal QR code and passport would be enough. I shudder to think what would happen with elderly folks. Believe it or not, many don't have smart phones or wouldn't know how to download an app, even if they did.

georvu wrote: ↑
Have done printouts only for over a dozen land crossings this year. Been at border +/- 3 hours that put in ArriveCan desktop.

Knighter wrote: ↑ Yeah, I knew that people need to use this app before flying to Canada in the past. But I thought for land crossing people just need to show their vaxx certificates and passports at the border, but I was wrong, after reading the ArriveCAN site, I knew all entries into Canada need this app, including land crossing.

Knighter wrote: ↑ You've done over a dozen land crossings this year already?

US only opened their land border to fully vaxx'd Canadians less than a month ago (Nov. 8), and Canada only dropped the prohibitive covid tests a few days ago (Nov. 30)...