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U.S. Customs Searches of Electronic Devices at the Border and International Airports (September 2008)

Stories of U.S. Customs officials searching travelers' laptop computers at the Canada-U.S. border have been in the news lately and there have been conflicting U.S. court decisions about the legality of such searches under the U.S. Constitution.

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Attending Conferences in the United States (March 2006)

Canadian citizens travelling to the U.S. to attend conferences for which they are receiving no remuneration from a U.S. source do not need visas. For the present time, they are not required to carry passports either, except when arriving in the U.S. from outside the Western hemisphere. However.......

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Travelling to the United States: Your Rights at the Border (June 2005)

When travelling by land to the United States, you have to enter into US territory before you arrive at the customs and immigration office. Once there, you are under the exclusive jurisdiction of the laws of the United States. You are not subject to the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms or to any other Canadian legislation.

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