Key Takeaways:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n The only non-citizens who can obtain NEXUS are lawful permanent residents of Canada or the United States.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Mexican nationals who are also members of Viajero Confiable are also eligible to apply for NEXUS. Under Mexican Nationality law, a Mexican citizen is a Mexican national who is also 18 years or older and who has \u201can honest way of living.\u201d Seeing that no minimum age is required for the Viajero Confiable program, this means that Mexican nationals under the age of 18 can also join NEXUS.<\/p>\n\n\n\n By the strict definitions of Mexican citizenship, these nationals under 18 remain only Mexican nationals and not citizens, in the sense they aren\u2019t yet full citizens. It would be untrue, however, to call Mexican Nationals under 18 non-citizens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Source1<\/a> Source2<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Non-citizens of any other country are eligible for NEXUS only if they are American or Canadian permanent residents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n H2: Can permanent residents apply for a NEXUS card?<\/strong> Yes, as mentioned, American and Canadian permanent residents can apply as long as they meet the other requirements for eligibility including:<\/p>\n\n\n\n H2: Can a green card holder apply for a NEXUS card?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Yes. A green card holder is a lawful American permanent resident and is entitled to apply, as long as they meet the other eligibility requirements listed above.<\/p>\n\n\n\n However, as the result of travel bans enacted in 2017 involving citizens of mostly Muslim-majority countries, some green card holders had their NEXUS membership revoked if they had passports from those countries. We explain further just below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n H2: Non-citizen permanent residents and the worst passports in terms of NEXUS<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n The U.S. is visited by people from around the world. Canada, like the U.S. attracts immigrants from around the world. So, when thinking of passports strength in terms of applying as a permanent resident to NEXUS, the worst passports are generally those that show up on at the bottom of recognized global passport lists \u2013 like Henley\u2019s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n As mentioned above, the U.S. enacted travel bans against a number of countries \u2013 many of them Muslim-majority \u2013 in 2017 causing permanent residents of the U.S. and Canada to lose their NEXUS membership if they were citizens of those countries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Not all the bans were identical \u2013 some only prohibited applying for permanent residence, in the case of Nigeria, while others were eventually dropped in the case of Iraq. These are the countries that were affected:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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