Travel Deadline Extended to June 2009

Congress has extended a controversial Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative deadline by 17 months, making June 1, 2009, the new
deadline by which people traveling by land or sea from the Caribbean, Bermuda, Panama, Mexico, and Canada must have a passport or other accepted document to enter or re-enter the United States. However, a January 23, 2007, deadline requiring passports for people
traveling by air still stands.