The United States will begin requiring Canadians who travel to the U.S. for 30 days or more to register with authorities in a strict application of existing immigration law that hasn’t been applied to Canadian visitors in the past, The New York Times reports.
According to a notice released on the federal register on Wednesday, starting on April 11 foreign nationals who travel to the United States for 30 days or more must apply for registration with the federal government and submit to having their fingerprints recorded.
Buffalo, New York-based immigration attorney Rosanna Berardi told ABC News that Canadians are exempt from the fingerprinting requirement but not the registration requirement. Previously, Canadian nationals who stayed in the U.S. longer than 30 days were not required to register with the federal government.
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