My husband and I will be driving from NY to Montreal next Monday. We both have passports to use as ID but the Fodor's travel book for Montreal & Quebec (pg. 127) is also listing vehicle ownership papers as necessary docs to cross the border. Has anyone who has driven across the border required this documentation?

I've never been asked for a registration..which is NOt the same as "ownership papers" which would usually mean a TITLE.

Unless you own your vehicle free and clear you won't be able to produce that until any liens are removed.

I've never heard of anyone being asked for such docs. The only thing similar that I've heard of them asking for was a rental car contract to verify that you are in fact allowed to cross the border with the vehicle. I wouldn't worry about it too much.

Layla

Thank you. We were worried that we may need to provide the registration card but just realized it expired last March (my husband has updated sticker on window but somehow does not have card.) Only realized this week so not alot of time to get to DMV before we leave on Saturday. I couldn't find anything about this type of documentation on the us.gov travel website but thought I'd check to see if anyone else had been asked to provide docs other than passport/driver's license.

I don't understand norahe but perhaps NY is different than California? Each year we get a registration form which we need to send in with the registration payment. We receive from the DMV a new registration card which we need to have in our vehicle or on our person and also a sticker to put on our vehicle license plate to show the vehicle has been registered with the state until the next year.

Isn't that true in NY?

Generally, the paid-up registration of a vehicle brings the decals which you put on the license plate (at least here in Virginia that's the way it works)

The decal on the WINDSHIELD is usually a sign that a SAFETY INSPECTION has been performed within the current necessary period...a bit different than registration...and here where we also pay personal property taxes on vehicles, yet another decal goes on the window...

and you thought times were "tough" out West...

Good grief Dukey! Well we are lucky here in California. We only pay the registration fee and once every other year we have to get a Smog Control Certificate but that only cost about $40.00. With a new vehicle the Smog Control is not required until the vehicle is five years old.