(THE CANADIAN PRESS/Rob Gurdebeke)

By CKOM News

BORDER REOPENS

U.S. plan to re-open land border to Canadians

Oct 13, 2021 | 8:32 AM

Fully vaccinated Canadians will soon be able to drive to the United States for non-essential reasons.

American president Joe Biden’s administration announced the U-S will reopen its land borders in November.

This comes after nearly 19-month’s of the border being closed to Canadians looking to drive, or ferry to the United States.

“At long last, there is action by the United States to open the doors and welcome back our Canadian neighbours,” New York Congressman Brian Higgins said in a statement.”

“Border communities await further details from the administration with great expectation, and I will continue to advocate for a more fully and freely open border to both governments, sooner rather than later.”

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Those details remained few and far between Tuesday, but the plan is designed to dovetail with the administration’s existing plan to allow international travellers from further afield to resume travelling to the U.S. on the same timeline, provided they’ve been fully vaccinated against COVID-19.

Non-essential travel to the U.S. by unvaccinated foreign nationals will remain prohibited, officials said. As of early January, even essential travellers who are foreign nationals seeking to enter the U.S. will need to provide proof of vaccination.

Travellers will be considered to be fully vaccinated if they have received a full course of a COVID-19 vaccine approved by either the U.S. Food and Drug Administration or the World Health Organization, which includes Oxford-AstraZeneca, a common vaccine in Canada that never received FDA approval.

More details are set to be announced on Wednesday including what requirements will look like to get into the country.

A specific date hasn’t been given at this time, but the new measures are expected to start in early November when a similar easing of restrictions is set to kick in for air travel.

-With files from the Canadian Press