Warning - when bringing US cash through US Customs/Immigration

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Malibook

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william webster said:
She risked it - flew to Buffalo and drove. Mailbrook is right, she made it but not all do.

Its sort of luck of the draw - how hard are they looking at that screen in front of them.?
It would shock you to know how much they know about you.
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I know that they can find out but this isn`t a routine part of a normal screening process.
The information does not automatically pop up on the screen.
It is only when something else about them raises a red flag and this issue might surface.
Most of the Americans with a DUI who travel to Canada don`t even know that they face this potential issue and for the vast majority of them it is never an issue.
 
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kimbjorkland said:
"oh we read the form wrong, we thought it was 10K each, okay sorry let me just erase that...."
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It was revealed by prosecution that a secondary search of the defendants brought on by the nervousness of the sweating younger brother, showed that the brothers were each in possession of $9,400. Sean had admitted to officers that the money had come from a poker tournament in Nassau. Officers later discovered that Freeman Jr was travelling with the pair and it was discovered that the remainder of the $26,000 was on his person. He initially told officers that the money was his but confessed that it came from Sean.
She acknowledged the submissions made by Mr Seymour, but said that the defendants had sought to deceive the system.
"All you had to do was fill out a form, instead you intended to deceive the officers at the pre-clearance." "And now you've lost all this sum of money," she added.
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Why be nervous and sweating and then lie if this was just an innocent mistake? :rolleyes:
 
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Derfish said:
NO. That doesn?t comply with the law. The law asks how many are travelling together. I had a pair of cousins travelling together coming from Colombia a few years ago. They lied and said they weren?t travelling together and it held them up for 22 nhours. Meanwhile I was wondering if they had missed the flight or what. But they?d been obsered as being together, and when they lied ot was reason for suspicion. It wasn?t a matter of cash, they didn?t have $20 between them, just a matter of lying.
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People have to realize that you can have a clean record and never have even thought of committting any crime, but telling a single lie to a federal officer is a crime under section 1001 of the US Code. Each and every lie is punishable with 5 years. This applies to all conversations with a federal officer. No warnings or Miranda applies. The lie is the crime. Usually there is video of all conversations, so convictions are slam dunks.
 
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Pure speculation on my part here but maybe the Casino was required to report the winnings over $10,000 of this particular individual. I have learnt that they often know the answer to questions that they ask. A friend of mine made a casual joke about an Atlanta politician caught smuggling marijuana to travel companion in the Atlanta airport and sure enough were stopped by an agent who asked them why they thought it was so funny.

Conchman said:
All 3 had just less than 10K and each one filled out their own form. One of them was still arrested and all the money was confiscated - only because the customs official 'suspected' that two were carrying the money for one.
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So you don`t believe in copyright laws.
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Maybe I woke up on the wrong side of the bed this morning, but some people should just shut the F*** up when commenting on things they know nothing about. Others just take everything their government says at face value. Stupid Canadians with their big government principles. Keep your mouth shut!

If you really want to talk about Megaupload, I think you'll find that their actions are protected under the safe harbor provisions of the Digital millennium Copyright Act - (DMCA). SO long as they followed the notice and take down procedures required by law, and they did not induce their customers to upload copyrighted material - they didn't, then they are in the clear.

This case is clearly a situation of big record companies leaning on lobbyists to pressure the government to turn a civil case into a criminal case. If you want any more proof, consider why the government doesn't go after Google and push their CEO in jail? Viacom already sued google for a billion and lost.

The government wants an easy win, so go after the smaller company and force them to concede when faced with 50 years in jail. When google is the market leader of the same DMCA loop hole exploitation, no point going after google, they pay enough lobbyists...

Tyranny defined.

Outrageous.

And you're the idiot on the sidelines preaching about breaking the law from your pulpit. wake up!
 
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kimbjorkland said:
Maybe I woke up on the wrong side of the bed this morning, but some people should just shut the F*** up when commenting on things they know nothing about. Others just take everything their government says at face value. Stupid Canadians with their big government principles. Keep your mouth shut!

Tyranny defined.

Outrageous.

And you're the idiot on the sidelines preaching about breaking the law from your pulpit. wake up!
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You seem to carry around a lot of hostile baggage.
Why don`t you tell us about it? :laugh:

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Pretty sick of all the whiners on this forum .....
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kimbjorkland said:
Maybe I woke up on the wrong side of the bed this morning, but some people should just shut the F*** up when commenting on things they know nothing about. Others just take everything their government says at face value. Stupid Canadians with their big government principles. Keep your mouth shut!

If you really want to talk about Megaupload, I think you'll find that their actions are protected under the safe harbor provisions of the Digital millennium Copyright Act - (DMCA). SO long as they followed the notice and take down procedures required by law, and they did not induce their customers to upload copyrighted material - they didn't, then they are in the clear.

This case is clearly a situation of big record companies leaning on lobbyists to pressure the government to turn a civil case into a criminal case. If you want any more proof, consider why the government doesn't go after Google and push their CEO in jail? Viacom already sued google for a billion and lost.

The government wants an easy win, so go after the smaller company and force them to concede when faced with 50 years in jail. When google is the market leader of the same DMCA loop hole exploitation, no point going after google, they pay enough lobbyists...

Tyranny defined.

Outrageous.

And you're the idiot on the sidelines preaching about breaking the law from your pulpit. wake up!
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A bit over the top, but totally agree.

Whoever who celebrates shutting down a legitimate page with more than 50% legitimate content just in order to erradicate the other 30% that may be used for piracy (not by the owners who got arrested) is out of their mind and believes on the "guilty until proven innocent" mantra.
 
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