Declaration at Customs entering on new IR1/CR1

[Jilly30 16]

I'm jumping the gun a bit, hopefully not jinxing the process *knocks on wood*, but once my husband's IR1/CR1 visa gets approved and he is on a plane to his POE in the US, the flight attendant will bring around those customs declaration forms. Is he going to check permanent resident? or visitor? I'm assuming PR. But will he know his A# at that time? Is it required on the declaration form?

We are starting to think about how to get all our belongings back to the US (i am currently living in India, but will go back to the US before his interview) and we got talking about customs duties and if we will have to declare anything. Which is what got us thinking about that declaration form. As far as I've been able to grasp from other posts is that he will declare everything as personal items. Still not clear about his status on the declaration form though.

[NickD 203]

Our experience with those declaration forms, an attendant would collect them, barely glance at them and drop them in a large trashcan. With customs, wanted to confiscate my laptop, because the battery was dead, but fortunately had the charging cord with me. Had to find a place to plug it in, would boot up and was okay, But felt bad because that line was getting very long behind me.

But they did confiscate a very expensive some kind of facial cream from my wife because the jar said 4 ounces. Was a dumb mistake on her part, should have not put it in her carrying on luggage. Most interest is are you carrying over $10,000.00 cash with you.

POE is entirely different, they just want to see your papers. Either entering on a non or an immigrant status.

[NikLR 13,227]

of course he has an A# it's on his visa in his passport.

Also until it's been stamped by the POE he's not an LPR.