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Detroit – U.S. Customs and Border Protection reminds travelers planning trips across the border to Canada to make sure they have proper documents for their return trip and to anticipate possible heavy traffic during the observance of the Christmas and New Year holidays. Travelers can take a few simple steps to help keep traffic moving across the border.

1. Plan your trip and allow extra time for crossing the border. Check the CBP Web site to monitor border wait times and review the “Know Before You Go” tip sheet. ( Know Before You Go )
2. Avoid peak travel times when at all possible.
3. Be prepared to show proof of citizenship and identity to enter the United States. This can include a passport, trusted traveler program card, an enhanced driver’s license or a birth certificate with a conventional driver’s license. Travelers 18 and under can present just a birth certificate.
4. Be advised that if you are crossing at a port of entry that has a NEXUS lane, everyone in the vehicle must have their NEXUS card in their possession, in order to use the lane.
5. Be sure to declare all agriculture products, including firewood and kindling, which are subject to additional inspection by CBP agriculture specialists. Failure to declare agriculture products, including firewood and kindling, may result in delays and civil penalties.
6. “CBP will staff all available booths in accordance with the traffic flow,” said Sidney Aki, assistant director for border security. “Travelers who are prepared for their border crossing help us keep the traffic moving.”

Travelers can obtain local border traffic conditions by visiting the CBP travel Web site or the Canada Border Services Agency Web site. ( Travel ) ( Canada Border Services Agency )

U.S. Customs and Border Protection is the unified border agency within the Department of Homeland Security charged with the management, control and protection of our nation's borders at and between the official ports of entry. CBP is charged with keeping terrorists and terrorist weapons out of the country while enforcing hundreds of U.S. laws.