Entering Alaska Without An Entry From Canada

I entered the Mexican crossing at Ojinaga Feb. 2014. I just walked across, no one asked me for anything.

The idea of sneaking into my own country sounds absurdly funny. It's crossed my mind.

There are more mountains, thicker woods, and it doesn't get dark in the summer.

Pretty sure it is easier to get something done with old criminal records that is easier & smarter than your plans.

I remember meeting a couple of Romanians in Budapest who were prevented from returning to their country. Something to do with taking cash out of their country to buy a car that they would return to Romania with and resell at a profit. The customs' agents didn't like their plan and told them to get lost.

My advice: follow the rules.

Please remember our Community Guidelines:

Do not discuss how to commit illegal activity (like buying drugs, avoiding visa restrictions, ticket scalping). It’s OK to talk about the existence of these things, but don’t advise how and where to do them.

It is OK to discuss the consequences of entering a country illegally, but it is not OK to discuss how to do it or how to try to avoid the consequences. It is OK to discuss what kind of records border officials have access to, but not OK to talk about lying to officials.

It may be time to move on.

It may be time to move on.

I think this is a bit unreasonable ... no-one on this thread has come close to discussing or advocating illegal activities (in fact the opposite - see #5) ... I think it is better to reserve the reminder in #15 for genuinely dubious or borderline cases, otherwise you risk the cry-wolf effect.

#14 I'm afraid you're too late with that advice. Had OP followed the rules, he would not need to look for illegal ways to enter Canada.

Once convicted it's very hard to get out of the circle of crime and start a new life. Imagine how difficult - if not impossible - it could be to find a job with a criminal record. So what options do you have left? Yes, you turn again to crime...

I wish good luck to OP to change his life!

Wow. You're so wrong with that post on so many things.

First off, I did not even commit the felony I was convicted of.

I've never had a single problem getting work. Does it limit my job choices? Sure. By comparison, my college graduate brother without a record can't find work.

I'm going to Canada to camp, fish, get eaten by mosquitoes, meet those awesome Canadians and have an adventure. Then head to Alaska to do that some more and work.

Change my life to what exactly? You made an awful lot of assumptions in your post. You give me the idea that you see me as some kind of career criminal, desperate to keep living and oppressed by the system, so I go to Canada to continue my crime spree. Because I just can't get a job. Is that close?

Also, to the moderator, I appologize if I broke the rules here. So let me rephrase my question:

What are the consequences of entering Alaska, from Canada, when you have no record of entering Canada in their system?

I would think:
-nothing
-suspicion and release
-arrest and deportation

But I don't know, so I'm asking.

The US and Canada both have no exit checks but they do have an agreement to share entry data at land borders, essentially the scan of your passport for entry into one also provides the exit data for the other, but as of now this does NOT apply to either US or Canadian citizens only third country citizens. So when you arrive at the border between Yukon and Alaska nothing should happen and they cannot deport you or deny entry as you are a US citizen in the US. Your experiences in Mexico are not really relevant as they had a system where the border is loose and the real control is maybe an hour south of the border. Canada like the US has its border control right at the border and attempting evade that control is, of course, illegal.