Originally Posted by
SoFlyOn
Only a baggage search. I've never been personally searched. I always have receipts handy too, but usually I just tell the agents that I have less than the allowance, and that I have receipts as proof. They are usually satisfied and let me proceed, since I can quote the applicable law.
Lately, when the customs screening has been inundated during the morning arrivals bank, the agents seem to be more interested in Argentine citizens, so it's not unusual to get waved through if you have a US passport.
John
I can confirm that.
The only time we had a problem was when my wife went before me at the scanning belt and they asked her to open a case up. We had brought a bag of daffodil bulbs from the UK and they confiscated them.
All the other times I have gone first and let it be known I was from the UK - (act stupid when I was asked something in Spanish) and we have just been let through without a problem.