New answers tagged customs-and-immigration
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Q1: It is not legal to carry prescription medications for someone else.
Q2: They're asking you to not tell Customs because they know or suspect that Customs will confiscate the medicines.
Being caught with medicines not your own may also result in your being charged with the criminal offenses of smuggling and/or lying on your Customs Declaration. Any such ...
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Officially, only Mercosur nationals do not need to get their passports stamped at this border crossing if they are not traveling too far into the other country, while people from further away are required to do so. As a practical matter, though, (at least in non-covid times) checks are very loose and probably nothing bad will happen to you if you are ...
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Do you think having no exit record from the UK on my passport will risk my visa application for re entering?
No. The UK does not place exit records in passports. Nobody has such a record, and not having such a record couldn't possibly have a negative impact on your visa application.
As noted in the other answer, the UK does record certain departures ...
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The UK (and the US), unlike most other countries, don't stamp passports on exit. Instead the airlines send an electronic record of your departure, and this is added to the Home Office's records on your passport.
When you apply for a UK Visa, this record will be checked, and since you have a matching entry and exit electronic records, the lack of a stamp won'...
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The British National Overseas passport is a burgundy colour (example below). It bears the same UK coat of arms as the new blue colored UK passports. As @DJClayworth points out, the BN(O) passport is issued by the UK and therefore is a UK passport. Moreover, as seen in the attached image, the new BN(O) passport has the ePassport symbol. Both of those ...
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At IAD airport, moving between terminals isn’t a big task. After you land, you will take a inter terminal bus (looks like a bus but is actually a vehicle with big wheels that can attach directly to a special gate at the airport so you can just walk in directly) to the main immigration hall. The immigration hall immediately exits into the baggage claim area ...
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For what it's worth, I should mention that I was successful traveling to Denmark via TAP AirPortugal, through Lisbon. They didn't give me any additional fuss.
Notes:
You MUST meet the requirements of your destination country, they checked all of that in the US.
You MUST have a negative Covid test valid 72 hours prior to departure. Depending on Covid testing ...
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The question is not whether they will notice it, but if they care.
The main criteria for the entry of 3rd country citizens is where they reside (not specified by the OP) and if that country is on the very short list of countries listed at the Restrictions on travel to the EU page.
So other than the possibility that you may possibly help in spreading a virus ...
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