Offering the convenience of a driver’s licence and border-crossing document all in one, the Manitoba Enhanced Driver’s Licence (EDL) is a licence to drive that you can also use to cross the U.S border by land or water.* This enhanced version is completely voluntary, with additional features to meet entry requirements for travelling to the U.S. by land and water only. Non-enhanced driver’s licences are still available.
If you don’t drive, or prefer to keep your driver’s licence separate from your border-crossing document, the Manitoba Enhanced Identification Card (EIC) may be the choice for you. It’s a voluntary provincial identification card that can also be used to enter the U.S. by land and water*. It has all the same features of the EDL, except it‘s not a licence to drive.
Both cards are:
*A passport or other approved document is required to travel to the U.S. by air and to travel to other countries.