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by potato3732842
445 days ago
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>It’s unconscionable and incredibly stupid to put a foreign student at risk by asking for such a “favor”, which she surely didn’t feel in a position to refuse. He shouldn’t even have asked an American (who can’t be deported) to do such a thing! Typical academia behavior to treat your reports as disposable. |
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I have been to airports in the US where customs routinely x-rays all bags, and dogs are common. Passengers are often directly asked coming in whether they have anything to declare and expected to answer honestly.
I've almost never had any inspection by customs entering into an EU country. People routinely don't declare things, and at times I've seen the majority of passengers on flights coming in from outside the EU go through the blue internal-EU lane for customs, with no repercussions or checks. In fact, I don't think I've ever seen someone declaring something, unlike the US.
On at least one occasion, I wanted to declare something coming into an EU country (value above exemption, not something dangerous), and simply couldn't. There were no customs officials at all. Some airports have a phone number or phone, or at least some information, at the red items-to-declare lane for this situation, but this one didn't. It appeared that, despite have having a very low exemption amount that was not marginal (a value of €exemption+€1 pays tax and duties on €exemption+€1, exemption-€1 pays nothing, ridiculously), they simply didn't expect to have anyone declare anything.