Enhanced New York State License with name not in proper order

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Please see my answer to your other question. In general, Canada admits US citizens with any proof of identity and citizenship. This should include an enhanced license with a clerical error.

In fact, when your brother shows the license, they may not even notice that the name is reversed. But, if they do, he may want to be prepared with independent photographic proof of identity, if he has it, as well as his birth certificate.

To get back into the US, as noted in the other answer, he is nominally supposed to have one of several documents specified by the WHTI. But in fact US citizens have a fundamental right to enter the country, so if he can prove his US citizenship by any means, such as a birth certificate, then CBP has to let him in. "Any means" may well also include an enhanced driver's license with a clerical error. The only caveat is that entry without a WHTI-specified document could take longer. Your brother should be prepared for the possibility that he will have to spend some time in secondary inspection as CBP considers his evidence of US citizenship.

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