Moving Household Goods to the United States- Determining Your Customs Status - Customs Forum

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Returning Resident
A returning resident is a resident, a citizen of the United States, or a person who once lived in the U.S. (including U.S. citizens residing in Guam, American Samoa, which are the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, or the U.S. Virgin Islands) who returning from abroad. To be classified as a returning resident, one must understand that your time was out of the country for a temporary period. If your intent was to permanently move abroad (she married a foreigner), and after some time, your plans unexpectedly changed (you became divorced), your return to the U.S. move will be classified as foreigners.

If you have lived abroad for more than three years you can give a foreigner.

Government / Military Employees
U.S. government personnel are those persons employed by the U.S. government. You need to get a paycheck from the U.S. government. The person in the service of the United States must be under government orders to return at the end of an extended duty assignment outside the customs territory of the United States.

An extended duty assignment abroad must be longer than 140 days, unless, for Navy personnel noted. Military and civilian personnel are entitled to free entry privileges if:

• You are again at any time after an assignment of extended duty.

• You are in the United States back on relocation (PCS) orders, regardless of the duration of the assignment overseas.

• They are under constant change of station (PCS) orders to another position or station abroad, require return of their personal and household goods to the United States.

Navy personnel aboard a United States naval vessel or a supporting naval vessel when the United States leaves on an intended deployment of 120 days or more outside the country, and who serve on the ship continued until he entered the United States return are entitled to the exemption extended.

Return before the permanent change of station (PCS) orders

Family members abroad, lived with the employee representatives, but returned to the United States with their possessions before the employee receives his / her orders the extended duty assignment ends, can not claim that grants duty-free exemption to military or government personnel such as a spouse, which the United States again for housing or a student who returned to the U.S. to seek to college.

Emergency Evacuees
Any person living abroad, who is appointed by the Government of the United States to abandon a particular foreign country and returned to the United States because of civil unrest or war is the same exemption under the Harmonized Tariff Schedule U.S. military and government Personal been granted. This may be busy state personnel, tourists, people in the private sector - in short, anyone not covered by an evacuation.

Nonresident / First-Time Immigrants
First-time immigrants to the United States shall be considered as foreigners, they will enter the first time in the United States. Each time, after which they will return as residents as long as their Immigration and Naturalization Service Form I-551, residency visa, also known as "Green Card".

Part-Time Residents
Has a part-time resident may maintain two households, one in the United States and one in another country. They can be used in the U.S. for business, pleasure or for educational purposes. The visit can be for a few weeks or for several years. A part-time resident is classified, for customs purposes, either as a returning resident or a nonresident. The status of either returning residents or foreigners is dependent upon several things and is usually decided on a case by case basis. Deciding factors include citizenship, where the traveler pays taxes, where he / she is employed, in which country or state driver's license, he / she possess, etc., is a U.S. citizen believed to be a resident, if they can prove that they have a residence is another country (for example, possess a visa for another country, a round-trip to another country return, etc.) A citizen of another country residing in the United States must be an Immigration and Naturalization Service form I-551, have residence visa, also known as "Green Card" to be a resident of return.

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