Ugh!! Help. I went to check in for my flight tomorrow and surprise - passport expired 2 months ago. I DO have a valid Nexus. I'm supposed to travel from Canada to the US. What can I do!?

Call about a rush passport

Where do you live? You may be able to get a rush passport

Go to your nearest passport office in person. Bring your flight info and photos for your new passport. Do a renewal application. Request same day service for your passport. Surrey and Vancouver offices only.

You could call and try to get a special authorization.

How do you do that

Just get yourself to the passport office to be sure. They can help, maybe a temporary passport will be issued. It's only been expired 2 months plus you have Nexus.

Do you have the retina scan on your nexus?

Yes

If you used your passport as a secondary piece of ID when applying for your Nexus, I'm almost positive your passport needs to be valid in order to use your nexus... At least that's what my husband was told when he got into shit for having an expired passport and crossing the boarder

This is correct. Your Nexus card is not valid unless linked to a valid passport.

He was told they could have revoked his Nexus as well because of this, but they were nice and let him off! They are real sticklers with the fine print.. Which makes sense lol

Patty, Nexus is valid still if she didn't use passport as ID to get Nexus.

This says Passport, or Nexus.
As long as you didn't get your Nexus using passport.

What is unclear about that though is when you use your Nexus card at the kiosk I'm pretty sure you have to scan of valid passport too there?

Your Nexus is invalid if your passport is expired.

If you used ID other than passport to get Nexus it'll be fine.

Elan Ambrose but don't you need a passport to get a Nexus card? What other citizenship documents would be valid?

I thought I posted the list from Nexus site. I'll find it again later for you, if you don't first.

if you are travelling between canada and the usa then your nexus is good enough . They don't ask you for your passport as well....

Is that with the agent or at a kiosk?

when I have travelled I only use my nexus either at the kiosk or an agent, as well as the United States Customs and Immigration.

Brandi such a risk I will take!

if you are that nervous then I would be getting to a passport office and applying for a rush passport ... I know they have 1 day service for extra fee... when you check in online is there not an option to add your nexus number instead of your passport ? Your nexus card gets you through the security faster as well as the customs line faster and never do you have to show your passport as well.....

Krista, Did you use your passport to get Nexus? If you did, it's not valid if expired passport. If you used other ID to get it, Nexus will work.

We had forgotten to update the Nexus site with our new passport numbers and they made us go in the office at YVR.

I am fine to go to the passport office, but can they renew me today? I tried calling but still on hold

just go.. with your passport and your flight info. You have to be there to get a rush passport done anyhow, so you might as well head down there

http://www.cic.gc.ca/.../travel-documents/temporary.asp
CIC.GC.CA
Canadian temporary passports

https://www.tsa.gov/travel/security-screening/identification
TSA lists Nexus as acceptable for air travel entry.
*If you used *ID other* than passport to get Nexus it'll be fine.

Call the passport office and your airline to confirm.

The airports you're flying out of and into MUST be able to accept Nexus or you cannot fly without a passport. I ran into this problem 2 years ago and I couldn't get a passport in time as I realized it was this on a friday night and the ridiculous charge wasn't worth it. So I changed my tickets and flew out of YVR instead and didn't have any issues.

Yes yvr. I'm getting mixed reviews, most people say I should be OK..... but it does seem to be a risk. I'm travelling with my two young children who are under the age of four and they have passports and Nexus as well.

What about where you're going to? Is it a nexus approved airport?

Krista Are you travelling by yourself with your kid? If so, you may need a letter from the children's father to travel with the children without him.

Update, I was able to call the customs line at Vancouver airport and explain my situation and they said it's no problem, the officer may ask about my expired passport and I just have to explain my situation and I would be OK , So here is hoping, thank you very much everyone for all your help

I brought my expired passport with me too just in case but never had any issues. You will be fine. But it absolutely puts you in panic mode realising it's expired.

Krista, did you use your passport for ID when you applied for Nexus?

Get a Rush passport.

We flew Calgary to New Orleans via Houston a few years ago with Nexus only. No problem on the way down at all, but when we went to fly back it was a bit trickier since the kiosks wanted us to scan our passports which we didn't have. It all worked out so you should be fine, but I always bring both now.

I have travelled to US using nexus only no problems..

What all these people are failing to mention with nexus/global entry is that it must have a valid passport behind it.
Yes I have gone down with only nexus, but my passport that links to my nexus card was still valid.
Hopefully you ignored half the advice here and followed the other half that suggested going down to the physical passport office to get a rush passport

Good point, forgot about that!

Yet, I mentioned it multiple times lol

Plus for her to go office too, ya'll not read? Haha
Anyway...

And when you get a new passport you must go back to the nexus office and have the new paraprofessional and its number linked to the nexus. That also holds true for the credit card you have attached tot the nexus card. If you have a new CC - you must go and have the new card linked to the nexus. They have the right to refuse you entry using your nexus if the numbers are not up to date.

You can do all that on the GOES website yourself without going in. So much more convenient!

Thanks for that info - I will check it out! When my hubby got a new CC - he was told by the border guard he had to go the the Nexus office to change the info.

I don't know if you can still do it, but you used to be able to go to a large centre and pay a lot of money to get a passport in a day. I know in BC we could get them in Vancouver. Look at the website and see if you can still do it and if you can get to the nearest large city.

If you used your passport as Id for your nexus application then the nexus expired when the passport did. Or at least that is what the agent told me at the border when the same situation occurred with me. But that was the only time I had ever been asked for my passport while using my nexus card. Just random.

Will see what happens I guess! When I called YVR today and transfered to customs international he basically said not to worry and just explain my situation to the agent if they ask and I'll be ok - hope that's the case as I'll have my family with me. Renewing as soon as I get back!!

I was almost denied entry in Las Vegas with my Nexus card as their Global Entry machines were not up and running. I had to go to a supervisor and then into 3 different rooms where I was eventually let through after being lectured by everyone. To fly with just Nexus you need to be flying to a place that is set up to receive it. Good luck, I hope you don't get held up!

You do not need your Canadian passport to travel to the United States if you have a NEXUS card, assuming you aren't a dual citizen. I am, and even though the NEXUS card was designed specifically so Canadians and Americans can travel to each others' countries without a passport, the NEXUS card only states your citizenship is one country, and since I was born in the US, it says my citizenship is American, which means I have no proof of my status in Canada. It's idiotic. My wife, who is a Canadian citizen ONLY travels back and forth to the US with just her NEXUS card all the time. You'll be fine.

Nexus rules say you must always have your passport with you.

Passport can be expired though.

If you used your passport as secondary ID during your Nexus application, therefore having to keep that information up to date on your Nexus records, then your passport cannot be expired when using Nexus. My husband almost lost his Nexus while crossing the boarder and his passport was expired. If you did not use your passport as your secondary piece or alternative proof of citizenship on your Nexus application, then sure it can be expired as it is not linked to your Nexus

That is my point.

As written in my previous comments, that no one is reading.

No one appears to be reading mine either

I guess not many people know how to speed read.

It is important info, since the employees being asked, are not relating it!

You can lead a horse to water...

Does anyone know what happened with her?

We made it:)

I had my retina scanned at the airport and that lets you travel by air with just a Nexus card using one of their booths. My passport has been expired all year but nobody said anything to me *shrugs*

My husbands passport was expired at least 6 months, and had been travelling to the states numerous though the boarder crossing, before anyone bothered saying anything to him lol