20 18 American immigration guide

Many families with good economic conditions will choose to emigrate overseas, which is also the trend in recent years. The United States has always been a popular country for immigrants, so what should immigrants pay attention to when they enter the United States? Let me introduce it to you, hoping to help you.

The U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has promulgated new regulations on electronic equipment border search (replacing the regulations promulgated in August 2009 to improve the transparency and accountability supervision of CBP electronic equipment search).

According to its regulations, government departments have extensive legal authorization at all borders entering and leaving the United States. Law enforcement officers can conduct extensive searches on the electronic equipment of entry-exit passengers, require passengers to provide passwords, and detain the equipment and related materials if necessary.

According to the new policy, border officials can follow the following principles

▲ You can search the information stored in the electronic device through its software, but you can't get the information stored outside the device from the electronic device.

▲ Border officials can ask passengers to put electronic devices in offline mode or prohibit connecting to the network, and ensure that they have not changed the contents of the devices.

▲ If there are reasonable reasons to suspect that there is an illegal act or a threat to national security, law enforcement officers may further search passengers with the approval of the competent authorities.

▲ Law enforcement officers can ask passengers to provide passwords for electronic devices and detain encrypted or unopened devices for further investigation. In general, the detention period cannot exceed five days.

Which devices will be checked?

Any device, that is to say, mobile phones, computer notebooks, iPad, and basically all electronic devices can be checked.

The new regulations explain in detail how to deal with detained information, including the handling of private information, whether it is necessary to delete information, and how to record and report the handling process.

When entering the US Customs, border inspectors may ask passers-by to provide computer passwords so that they can check the contents. If you have American citizenship, the device may be confiscated if you refuse to unlock it.

What will happen if the inspection is not allowed?

If you are an American resident, if you refuse to unlock it, you may be detained by CBP for several hours, even your equipment. Seizure may lead to forensic examination of the equipment, and CBP may not return it to you for several months.

If you are a tourist, it may be worse. If you are not an American resident, CBP may stop you from entering the country and send you back.

Entering the US Customs means that you will be subject to the highest standards of security inspection and electronic equipment inspection by the US Customs, so you must make the following preparations in advance.

1. Prepare for the inspection of electronic products. This means that you should remember to charge your mobile phone, iPad, laptop or other electronic products before you leave, and check whether their sheaths are easy to take off (or simply take them off in advance). This is because if you are randomly selected, but your electronic product is dead, can't be started, or can't be unsheathed, then it can't continue to travel with you.

2. "Organize" the files and materials stored in your electronic products (mobile phone, iPad, notebook computer) in advance (check whether there is sensitive information in your mobile phone). According to media reports, Apple phones and Samsung phones will be subject to additional strict inspections.

3. If there is an independent encrypted partition on your computer hard disk, it may attract the attention of CBP agents.

4. Consider moving sensitive data to the cloud or storing it on another device at home.

5. If you don't want CBP to see your work email, uninstall the email application from your smartphone. CBP's cursory search of your phone is unlikely to find out which applications you have uninstalled recently.

6. In particular, remember that "you can't lie to CBP agents during the inspection, and you should answer truthfully when asked". The principle is, answer whatever you ask, don't answer whatever you don't ask, give whatever you want, and don't disclose any information on your own initiative.

In order to avoid trouble, China tourists had better delete WeChat before entering the United States. At present, there are too many cases in which "details you don't care about" will be used by the customs as reasons for repatriation.

Special! Special! Note: Don't bring any pictures and photos involving child pornography. From international students to elderly people from China who came to the United States in their seventies, this sentence is too heavy, and nude photos of children cannot be stored in electronic devices, because it is also related to child pornography, so don't be found.

Finally, remind friends who leave the United States that leaving the United States is also subject to inspection, so it is best for everyone to arrive at the airport at least 2 hours in advance to cope with the stricter security inspection process.