10 of the Most Unexpected Reasons You Could Get Flagged

#4 – Visiting a Farm

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If you have visited a farm during your trip or have been in a very close contact with livestock, you must not lie about it and indicate it by checking “yes” in the customs declaration form you are asked to fill in when you return to the United States.

If your answer is “yes”, then expect to be pulled aside for a separate and secondary inspection and you may even have your stuff sprayed with disinfectant to prevent the spread of livestock diseases such as foot-and-mouth disease. At the end of the day, these strict procedures are only for your safety and that of other U.S citizens.

The perk? Maybe all this hassle is for your own benefit after all. Most of the times the agricultural inspection line is not crowded and normally shorter than the general customs line. So, maybe you will spend less time in agricultural line than in the other.

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