If you’re human, you would understand that it’s taking a huge toll on our family. Even though our daughter was 3 at the time we traveled to NY in August, she knew something wasn't right when we pulled away from our house in Montreal as she asked me, “Why can’t papa come with us?”. My husband used to work in New York City, we've had NEXUS for years, we've taken dozens of trips across the border and now sadly, he's not welcome.
Everyone is going through their own difficulties with this virus, but for our family, it's physically and emotionally hurting ours.
It's imperative that the US creates family exemptions and have compassionate rulings so we can travel as a family in the safety of our own vehicle, to visit my mother before I have this baby. Because of my age (I'm only 36) and my last pregnancy, I'm considered high-risk and we don't feel totally comfortable with me driving 10+ hours by myself with our 4 year old. It's now become crucial that my husband is permitted to travel with us by car due to my pregnancy. We recently found out that we are expecting our second child in October later this year. Since August, my mother received radiation treatments and is now receiving immunotherapy treatments. We’re in our car, limit our stops and plan our trip according to our safety needs. However, we don’t want my husband to fly for fear of transmitting Covid from the airport to my at-risk mother, or risk him being turned away at the land border which is what Senator Gillibrand's office suggested we attempt to do. We’re aware of the odd rule the US has, that my husband can enter the US by air. It’s obviously not easy driving by myself with a 4 year old from Montreal, crossing an international border, all the way to Long Island totaling at least a 10 hour drive. The US not allowing my husband and father of our child to be able to travel with us to visit my mother has taken a huge toll on our family and our well-being. The US border was alright, as we have NEXUS but the border officer asked me twice if our daughter was in fact a US Citizen, which was unsettling because she's a child and secondly, she is. In August of 2020, my daughter and I drove 10 hours each way to finally visit her. The last time we as a family traveled to see my mother was December of 2019. She lives by herself because my father passed away from cancer over 20 years ago. My mother, who still lives in NY, was diagnosed with cancer just prior to Covid. I live with my legal Canadian husband, as we were married in NY of 2014, and we have a 4 year old dual citizen daughter together, Charlotte. I am a US Citizen and a Permanent Resident of Canada. I’m originally from West Babylon, NY and now reside in the Greater Montreal area of Quebec, Canada.
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