"Have you ever violated any law related to possessing, using or distributing illegal drugs?"
"Do you have a physical or mental disorder; or are you a drug abuser"
It's also on the customs forms for New Zealand, where you're asked along with questions about any drug paraphernalia you might be bringing in. They seem to be much more concerned about fruit than people slipping through with a bong though. Only country I've ever been set upon by fruit sniffing dogs.
I've been pulled up by the kiwi's their basic problem was me not doing drugs in their country. Similar approach was used on my buddy "I'm glad you answered yes to pot, because if you'd declined I wouldn't have believed you and pulled you in anyway".
So we were all pulled in an at that point I figured there was no reason to lie. I discussed all the drugs I'd done previously and they stated there was no way for them to prove I was (or was not) smuggling as trace amounts were found in the bag I admitted to carrying them in for previous ski trips.
I stated it was illegal in my country but had no plans to do it in theirs. I was allowed in on the condition I didn't do illegal drugs in NZ... I accepted their terms and didn't do any gear while I was there.
I was once taken into a room and questioned by US border personnel for eating a banana after passing US pre-clearance at Dublin airport.
Technically still on Irish soil but within the US customs zone, apparently, and I had thus lied on my form when I said I wasn't tranporting fruit or vegetables into the USA.
I flew into Chicago from the UK a few months ago. A guy a few spaces behind me in the line had a search dog stop at his feet. He had some fruit in his bag. I can't remember what it was, an apple or something. They gave him a form to fill in and he had to pay a fine.
I had a banana in my bag. A very ripe one. But the bag was on my shoulder rather than on the floor by my feet so the dog just walked straight past me. There's a hack to remember.
If anyone's thinking about it - don't. mike-cardwell got lucky. Dogs at the airport sniff everything. Whether you have something in your backpack or the bag on the floor, NZ has pretty bad fines even for stupid stuff like obviously half eaten and taken by accident piece of fruit.
I'm surprised any bag would ever be allowed anywhere off the ground in their presence. K-9 officers generally just call for all people to rest their bags and luggage on the floor to one side. While the dog makes it's rounds, you're also being watched for body language and behaviour.
"ruining a country's entire fruit industry?" is overly dramatic. If this experience was anything to go by, it seems likely that fruit is constantly accidentally brought across the border. I've been to the US a few times and this is the first time a dog went anywhere near my bag, and even when one did, it didn't detect the fruit.
That'd be because, like Australia, there's a very isolated ecosystem there that could be decimated by unintentionally bringing in diseased fruit from overseas. Australia has similarly strict rules on bringing food items, etc. in because it has a similarly isolated ecosystem where some diseases prevalent elsewhere simply aren't found here, so the ecosystem isn't resistant to it.
Serious question: I live in Sweden and have officially diagnosed autism/adhd, so I would have to answer yes to the first question. What are the chances that I will be denied entry purely based on that answer?
Quote:
```(b) You had a physical or mental disorder and a history of behavior associated with the disorder that has posed a threat to your property, safety or welfare or that of others and the behavior is likely to recur or lead to other harmful behavior. Answer "No" if:
(a) You currently have no physical or mental disorders; or
(b) You have or had a physical or mental disorder without associated behavior that may pose or has posed a threat to your property, safety or welfare of that of others; or
(c) You currently have a physical or mental disorder with associated behavior, but that behavior has not posed, does not currently pose nor will pose a threat to your property, safety or welfare or that of others; or
(d) You had a physical or mental disorder with associated behavior that posed a threat to your property, safety or welfare or that of others, but that behavior is unlikely to recur.
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They have the fruit sniffing dogs in the US. I've seen someone in the immigration line at O'Hare get pulled aside because they were smuggling in an apple from the flight. (No doubt there were several in the trash on the plane, which is likely emptied into the US.)
I would imagine that such a question is standard all over the place. Almost like a canary trap? For example, life-insurance forms. They ask you those types of questions as well as questions along the lines of "have you every been denied life-insurance by any provider for any reason".
I'm pretty sure that the customs form for NZ doesn't ask anything about drugs or drug paraphernalia.
On the note of that form you linked, apparently they send the results live, a friend of mine for a joke checked "yes" to Question 3, and now her visa application is under review.
What form is that? It certainly isn't a landing card. Maybe a visa application, but the number of western country with visa free or visa on arrival is huge.
"Have you ever violated any law related to possessing, using or distributing illegal drugs?"
"Do you have a physical or mental disorder; or are you a drug abuser"
It's also on the customs forms for New Zealand, where you're asked along with questions about any drug paraphernalia you might be bringing in. They seem to be much more concerned about fruit than people slipping through with a bong though. Only country I've ever been set upon by fruit sniffing dogs.