Originally Posted by kmersh

I was picking my Wife up at DFW, arrived early, so decided to speak with CBP and find out about declaring USA prescribed meds and if they had any idea of the procedure.

The two people at CBP I spoke with were both very nice and wanting to be helpful, one even commented that he was impressed a citizen was really trying to do the right thing to the T.

However, just like the person a few comments up from mine, essentially they had no idea of any process and furthermore said that nobody would be penalized for USA prescribed and fulfilled meds, nor non-scheduled meds prescribed and fulfilled overseas.

I asked what I should do if I did have medication with me, they both said declare it to the nearest CBP Officer in the Customs Halls or any Secondary Inspection Area, but there was no need to wait in line at Immigration and either way Medication legally prescribed in its original bottle with the prescription on it would never be an issue, in fact one of the Officers said to me he had a man just the other day who had samples from his Doctor along with a prescription and that was more than enough to prove that the man was supposed to have the meds.

I asked about Dexilant (Dexlansoprazole) a non-scheduled, non-narcotic PPI I am prescribed for heart burn visa vie Global Entry and the Supervisor said look at it this way, that he was unfamiliar with Dexilant but that unless I had narcotics than I really should not worry and if I did have narcotics just make sure that are from the USA, that they are in their original bottle with a prescription label and worse comes to worse I might have to wait while they check on the prescription, but that 9/10 as long as things check visually it really wouldn't be a problem.

Take it with a grain of salt, in my experience the rules are the rules depending on who you speak with, not simply that the rules are the rules.