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hi sirs, i'm steve. as a tourist of 2, how much dollar bills can we bring in the US for a 17 day stay? i know we have to declare them before entering the US, but we also have credit cards. will the credit limit of our credit card be declared also? if $10,000 is only allowed, will the credit limit or available balance of our credit cards be counted added to the pocket money we have? thankyou -- VOLTS Message origin: TRAVEL.com |
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On Fri, 10 Jun 2011 07:06:33 -0500, VOLTS
wrote: hi sirs, i'm steve. as a tourist of 2, how much dollar bills can we bring in the US for a 17 day stay? i know we have to declare them before entering the US, but we also have credit cards. will the credit limit of our credit card be declared also? if $10,000 is only allowed, will the credit limit or available balance of our credit cards be counted added to the pocket money we have? Don't worry. You don't need more than US$10000 for 17 days unless you try to stay in 5star hotel penthouses the whole time or expect to buy illegal powdery stuff. ;-) Your CC is not counted towards the $10000 you can bring into the US. We never had to declare any cash we had with us over the last 25 years. If in doubt I guess US consulate/embassy in the Phillipines can help you out (you seem to be from the Phillipines...). Bye Maurice -- Hamradio: ON4BAM http://www.on4bam.com/ Travelogues and Amateur radio http://blog.on4bam.com/blog/ |
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On Fri, 10 Jun 2011 16:23:32 +0000, Bert Hyman wrote:
In VOLTS wrote: hi sirs, i'm steve. as a tourist of 2, how much dollar bills can we bring in the US for a 17 day stay? i know we have to declare them before entering the US, but we also have credit cards. will the credit limit of our credit card be declared also? if $10,000 is only allowed, will the credit limit or available balance of our credit cards be counted added to the pocket money we have? https://help.cbp.gov/app/answers/detail/a_id/195 You can bring in as much cash as you like, but if the total amount carried by everyone in your party exceeds US$10000, you must declare it. The limit on your credit cards is not counted. The poster may not know the reason for the $10000 limit. It is a check on money "smuggling" whereby the likes of drug lords or other criminals get get their ill-gotten gains back to them in whatever country they live in. Cash is used because cash leaves no paper trail. It is mostly about those leaving the USA. -- Dave Hatunen, Tucson, Baja Arizona, out where the cacti grow |
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On 10 Jun 2011 16:23:32 GMT, Bert Hyman wrote:
You can bring in as much cash as you like, but if the total amount carried by everyone in your party exceeds US$10000, you must declare it. Can you define "your party"? Tnx -- Larry |
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hi sir, just me and my wife only. sir for 17 days only west coast, san francisco, LA and vegas. will $7,000 cash excluding our credit cards combined will be around $5,000 fit for the trip? we'll be staying in hotels $80 to $100 a day, take public transport, we don't dine at expensive restaurants, a little shopping mostly souvenirs. -- VOLTS Message origin: TRAVEL.com |
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On Fri, 10 Jun 2011 22:47:23 -0500, VOLTS
wrote: hi sir, just me and my wife only. sir for 17 days only west coast, san francisco, LA and vegas. will $7,000 cash excluding our credit cards combined will be around $5,000 fit for the trip? we'll be staying in hotels $80 to $100 a day, take public transport, we don't dine at expensive restaurants, a little shopping mostly souvenirs. $100 a day for 17 days is $1700. Add another $100 a day for inexpensive restaurants and $200 for a few souvenirs, and the total comes to $3600. Even if you don't charge any of it, $3600 is nowhere near $7000. Double the $100 a day for restaurants and it still comes to only $5300 And in the extremely unlikely event that you run out of cash, you can simply charge more to the credit cards or use the credit cards to get additional cash from an ATM machine. It seems to me that you are worrying about nothing. By the way, when I travel, I take nowhere near that amount of cash with me, since I don't want to risk losing it to a thief. I charge almost everything on a credit card and use ATM machines as necessary to get much smaller amounts of cash. -- Ken Blake |
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