US Customs declaration form: "BGC"?
Jan 4, 2009, 10:34 pm
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US Customs declaration form: "BGC"?
Meant to ask this earlier ... but had slipped my mind 
I was recently returning from Vietnam on business travel with a colleague. The immigration officer wrote "BGC" on his customs declaration form, while I had the usual entry ("1" ). This resulted in his bags being inspected by US Customs ... nothing too dramatic, this was a casual inspection which took only a few minutes and he was allowed to proceed following the inspection.
Anybody know what does BGC stand for (Back Ground Check, perhaps) and what triggers this?
I was recently returning from Vietnam on business travel with a colleague. The immigration officer wrote "BGC" on his customs declaration form, while I had the usual entry ("1" ). This resulted in his bags being inspected by US Customs ... nothing too dramatic, this was a casual inspection which took only a few minutes and he was allowed to proceed following the inspection.
Anybody know what does BGC stand for (Back Ground Check, perhaps) and what triggers this?
Jan 4, 2009, 10:57 pm
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