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| Brumby:
--- Quote from: vk6zgo on August 12, 2017, 03:01:39 am ---The little card they give you on the plane is not for fun, it's a legal document. --- End quote --- Very true - and once you've handed it over, it's too late to change it - so be straight. Imagine a TSA agent looking over your shoulder, waiting to pounce if you get it wrong. If you genuinely forgot to declare something, don't wait to see if they find out. Get in first and let them know - apologise profusely and they may go easy on you. If they find something that isn't declared, telling them you forgot at that point isn't going to wash. |
| Rerouter:
For the declarations, bring a working pen, if you make a mistake there will be extra cards before customs, but pens are extremly scarce as people have a habit of walking off with them, |
| ^_^:
@NANDBlog, Rerouter: I see. Well, I guess my luck is that I have the house taken care of for the first month and can prolong it. It is a student house with one possible roommate, though, but fully equipped. The caution is only $300. I've also read some blogs and the people seemed to be able to find fully furnished and equipped studio/apartment/shared flat after some devotion to search. It's similar in Germany, I guess. In a small city I lived, there would be mostly unfurnished flats, just painted walls and *maybe* a fridge or laundry machine. But in Munich there's lots of furnished apartments, though it's mostly shared with flatmates. @vk6zgo, Brumby: Yup, it's well over what one would consider resonable amount I guess ;) I will for sure take less than $10k ! --- Quote ---Aside from quarantine issues, when travelling to Australia, if you are carrying a total of AUS$10,000 or more, or equivalent in foreign currency, you must declare the money on your Incoming Passenger Card and when questioned by Australian Customs officials upon arrival. --- End quote --- @Brumby, Rerouter: Yeah, I've read about those import customs. It's just easier not to bring any food and bio-related stuff. Who would need that anyway? Except Léon the pro with his sweet little green friend. A pen it is! |
| tszaboo:
--- Quote from: ^_^ on August 12, 2017, 07:57:58 am ---Yeah, I've read about those import customs. It's just easier not to bring any food and bio-related stuff. Who would need that anyway? --- End quote --- If you dare, it is faster to enter the USA with some "bio stuff". You just declare that you have. Then they will pick you from the line, go to a separate room. You open your bag, and place a chocolate bar in front of them. Then they clear you and off you go. Much much faster than waiting in line. Only downside, they are more likely to put on the dreaded rubber glove. |
| GK:
--- Quote from: vk6zgo on August 12, 2017, 03:01:39 am ---Australia doesn't have many of the plant & stock diseases which occur in other countries, so you should also read up on quarantine, re foodstuffs, rawhide leather, etc. --- End quote --- It's always amazing to see on "reality" programs such as Border Security or the like the sheer amount of exotic c%$# that some people from Asian countries try to bring along with them, presuming that they can just bluff or bribe their way past some dumb western official by feigning ignorance or next to no grasp of the English language or our laws so clearly written out for them in their own tongue. Mostly pointless too as all Australian cities have large Asian communities with specialty shops that import all sorts of oriental oddities. Heck even mainstream Woolworths in Rundle Mall here in Adelaide stock the authentic Vietnamese fish sauce that I last sampled from amongst the table condiments at a Vietnamese-run laksa & noodle bar. Can't miss that distinctive read and white bottle; imagine the essence of a marathon runners armpit or sweaty sock concentrated and amplified x500. Must be the oriental equivalent of Garum and the market could only be a select minority of their Asian clientele. Anyway, there is no need to bring food stuffs over from Germany anymore as we've been able to buy Haribo Gummibaerchen here for years already. You can never grow too old for Gummibaerchen. |
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