Clearing customs miami

[navsar94]

hey all
Im headed to the bahamas next week. Can anyone tell me the most recent info on clearing out of the us then clearing in upon return? Thanks!
Chip

 

[Jgorm]

On the west coast you don't have customs when going into Mexico by boat. How do they regulate it on the east coast?

 

[robert843]

hey all
Im headed to the bahamas next week. Can anyone tell me the most recent info on clearing out of the us then clearing in upon return? Thanks!
Chip

Just download the new CBP ROAM app you can use it to clear back in. Nothing needed on the US side clearing out.

 

[robert843]

On the west coast you don't have customs when going into Mexico by boat. How do they regulate it on the east coast?

Actually Customs and Border Patrol rules should be the same on the west coast if you port in a foreign country you should have to clear back in through US Customs.

Pursuant to 19 CFR 4.2, operators of small pleasure vessels, arriving in the United States from a foreign port or place to include any vessel which has visited a hovering vessel or received merchandise outside the territorial sea, are required to report their arrival to CBP immediately (see 19 U.S.C. 1433).

The master of the vessel reports their arrival at the nearest Customs facility or such other place as the Secretary may prescribe by regulations. These reports are tracked in the Pleasure Boat Reporting System. Pursuant to 8 CFR 235.1, an application to lawfully enter the United States must be made in person to a CBP officer at a U.S. port-of-entry when the port is open for inspection.

 

[Jgorm]

I've been in Mexico waters lots of times, but never docked. I've also never even heard of anyone ever doing this, and i grew up 15 minutes from Mexico near San Diego bay. I worked at the yacht club growing up too. It might be a rule, but with thousands of boats going in and out of the bay each day, and no customs people anywhere, i doubt anybody has actually done it, law or not.

 

[robert843]

I've been in Mexico waters lots of times, but never docked. I've also never even heard of anyone ever doing this, and i grew up 15 minutes from Mexico near San Diego bay. I worked at the yacht club growing up too. It might be a rule, but with thousands of boats going in and out of the bay each day, and no customs people anywhere, i doubt anybody has actually done it, law or not.

I'm not doubting it. Lot's of people go to the Bahamas and back and do not check in as well but the fines are really steep if caught doing so its just not worth it to me to not do it properly but to each there own. People doing the Bimini runs have routinely been stopped by the coast guard and boarded and documents checked I think the are a little harder on it on the East Coast it sounds like.