Bermuda Race 2008

If this is the first time traveled you on a The Bahamas Charter of Yacht Or you did not charter in the last one five years that you can want to know that little of the customs rules changed. If you travel by the exterior one of yacht or car of the United States will need to present you additional administrative work while returning countries close.
Adults and the children that are American citizens that will be demanded them to show "the citizenship proof," as a birth certificate, as the certificate of naturalization or an American passport to enter the country, even if your charter landed of an American harbor as Lauderdale of Miami or Strong. The adults will have also need to show ID to the government, as a driver's license.

There will be some indulgence for the travelers of aerial line to come in Florida of the south. The American citizens that enters Mexico, Canada, the Bermudes or some countries of West Indies will not have to furnish a passport while returning.
The majority of marinated where the charters land of demand typically that the citizenship proof already of all the passengers to come and to land. Since the protocols for marinated them did not change a lot of the, the American officers foresee the sail smooths because most of the American travelers already show the proof of citizenship for the return by the sea also. Recently the mayor of Lauderdale of Fort and the guard of American coast met with the officers of the West Indies in the St. Maarten to see how they can optimize the customs process for the community of yachting.

While some matter groups worry that the strict rules can interrupt commerce and the trip through the Etats-Unis-Canada and Etats-Unis-les borders of Mexico for the travelers to come in the states by car, the industry of yachting foresees heavily is not affected.

The Trip Industry Association and the Trip Matters Table round asked the government to have expressed some worries of the travelers that must furnish true birth certificates and asked to delay the "the citizenship proof" the rule, until it was modified. The groups asked that the American citizens are demanded to show only an ID furnished by the State to return by the earth or the sea.

These new rules are part of the project of the country to execute the more stretched border security since September 11, 2001 and the recent Presidential race made it known that the new President Elit in the month of November of 2008 will have to do the problem a first priority. Florida of the south leaders sea foresaw that they do not see problems in the future because they obtained the word out to the community of sailor for the months by the websites, the agents of trips and the other chains to these to enter the United States by the sea.

A lot of businesses of cruise, including the Croisiedristes of Carnival of miami-based, the bigger world, had demanded their customers to show to the citizenship proof to dispatch to treat. And a lot of canoteurs showed of the to the birth certificates to the authorities to obtain the numbers of canoteur for the return.

Chris Oswell, the captain of the Nancy of Lady, a private yacht of 112 feet that visits frequently Florida of the south, said that it worked for several years on the premise that person comes on board for a trip to the United States without a passport or to a green card. It mentioned that those that cannot furnish the documentation will have to be turned. Most of the charter companies are notified in advance by their charter agent as for what the preparation conditions are for their trip.

The Nancy of Lady arrives as a lot of charters of yacht done of the Bahamas to Lauderdale of Fort and clarifyes customs while telephoning a 800 numbers and give the Security of Fatherland the names of the passengers, the passport numbers, the date back to birth and the addresses. The captain obtains a number of release in the return. The guests have then 24 hours to go to an office of Unity of Eller to Everglades of Harbor and show their numbers of passports and release.

The travelers should not find it strong for itself in accordance with the new conditions. The citizenship proof can include even an American passport that expired, said Zachary Mann, the agent and the special spokesperson for American Customs and Trims Protection.

"We do not foresee vast lines [in Florida of the south] because of this rule," Mann said. "And if you do not have the just documents, and you are an American citizen that returns, we will not prevent yourself from will not enter. The treatment time for you to enter just will take longer".

A transition smooths will be strong welcomed in the comparison to the law change executed some exacting years ago a passport for the American citizens that fly return of the countries of Hemisphere of the west. So of millions of citizens asked passports that the passport offices were overwhelmed. The government had to suspend the rule to clarify the accumulation before to reintegrate it.

The passport rule took also a right of passage on West Indies, the world most of depending region of tourism. Some Americans were unaware of the vacation of West Indies to divert the penalty and the cost to obtain from the passports. The country economies including the Bahamas and Jamaica, that did not demand an American passport for the entry in the past, suffer.
Even the small West Indies that are part of the United States and excluded from the passport rule, including the Virgin Iles of the United States and Puerto Rico, felt certain of the effects, but the American trip to West Indies puts back themselves this year.

The current that treats the time for an application of American passport is four to six weeks, at the bottom of almost 12 weeks in the environment of-2007. The passports always could be dispatched for an additional premium or under the certain series of circumstances.

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