Plate Denial

emailme84

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If my plates are in denial status with the province of Ontario but are still valid plates. Will I be able to cross the border into the United States without any issues?
 
If your stickers are not current, your plates are not valid. I'd be careful. Both sides of the border have access to the MTO database and once you pull up, it is possible that the customer agent will know that you are driving with invalid plates and on a bad day, you may be heading home.
 
Let me guess, you owe the gov't money for tickets and don't want to pay.

Sooner or later it will bite you in the ass and just cost you more so why don't you take care of it sooner. It's not like they are going to forgive you for it so you'll end up paying less if you take care of it now.

As mentioned, your plates are scanned at the boarder and a whole host of info pops up on you on both sides. If you even look at the Americans sideways they don't let you in.

Good luck trying though. Be sure to let us all know how it went and how you enjoyed that body cavity search.
 
Actually, my plates are currently valid for another 8 months or so, it just that the MTO will not renew them because of a very large 407 bill that was built up when I leant a car to someone for a period of time. I'm working on paying it off, just don't have all the money up front. (Lesson learned). Currently everything on my car is valid, I just can't renew my stickers but was wondering if that was an issue for leaving the country.