Driving to Canada requirements checklist

Alternative: Flying to Canada checklist

During the COVID-19 pandemic, we strongly advise Canadians to cancel or postpone non-essential travel plans outside of Canada. Now is not the time to travel.

People who travel, regardless of citizenship, will need to follow testing and quarantine requirements to keep Canadians safe, particularly given the new COVID-19 variants in Canada and around the world.

On this page

• Before you travel to Canada by land
• Arriving in Canada at a land border crossing
• Completing your mandatory quarantine
• Testing and quarantine exemptions
• Driving through Canada to or from Alaska

Before you travel to Canada by land

The COVID-19 pandemic restricts travel to Canada and within Canada. It is essential to understand and comply with the requirements.

To enter Canada through a land border crossing, work your way through every step to understand how to plan and prepare. Each step has specific requirements and exemptions that will follow through to later stages of your travel.

Use the same email address for ArriveCAN and all of your entry requirements.

Arriving in Canada at a land border crossing

Completing your mandatory quarantine

Testing and quarantine exemptions

There are no exceptions for vaccinated travellers, at this time.

If you think you may be exempt from mandatory requirements, check the details for:

• Who is exempt from quarantine
• Who is exempt from pre-entry testing
• Who is exempt from arrival testing

Driving through Canada to or from Alaska

Alaska travellers must meet the pre-entry and arrival requirements on this checklist, and meet strict entry conditions.

• Driving through Canada between Alaska and the rest of the United States