Re: seed import permits

In a message dated 11/29/01 7:56:09 AM Eastern Standard Time, 
genebush@otherside.com writes:

<< to) Reality is usually a horse of a different color. While most foreign
 countries take customs seriously, have a minimum of personnel to do the job
 (perhaps even knowledgeable of the rules and regulations) the US custo >>

Maybe yes - maybe no Gene. In NYC we have the famed dogs and they have 
visited me several times.  The first time I was irate, I wondered who let 
dogs loose in an airport until I discovered they were checking baggage.  The 
only time I was ever truly checked was in Heathrow where I had my purse 
tipped upside down on a table.

Prompting me to write this just now is a trip upcoming for Ed and me.  We are 
flying to Brazil in January and will board a ship to look around the Cape and 
Antarctic glaciers.

We will touch in four countries and all are interested in us intensely.  We 
are two grey haired Americans with no particular terrorist records and we are 
having an awful time getting into Brazil.

We need so many things to obtain a visa that we may be still here when the 
ship leaves.  We need a passport with 6 mo. valid left upon it, two pages 
blank (so we can leave as promised), a color photo on a white background, 
facsimile cuts of or tickets in and out of Brazil, customs cards, a 
registered agent's letter that we have in fact made plans for this trip, 
45.00, confirmed round trip status or proof we will actually leave from 
another country, notarized statements that we have not been in any of sixteen 
countries that Brazil does not like at this time.  Oh yes, an application 
form.

We will also be in Argentina and Chile and one or two days in Uruguay.  These 
countries are requiring only a landing card.  Expect and approve the 
tightening of regulations worldwide. I think we will fall in line, certainly 
hope so as this new year comes with new legislation.

I should never touch a seed in Brazil or a bulb (home of hippeastrum- sigh) 
for fear I would spend portions of the rest of my life there.  Ed and I are 
only going to be in Brazil several hours.  We will land there and bus to a 
ship leaving the same day.  All this for a few hours.  We will be processed 
by customs in and customs out in the course of several hours.

 I am reminded of a neighbor, a German woman, who visited Europe each summer. 
 She thought the everbearing strawberries were much finer there at the time.  
One summer she arrived home in a straw hat with leaves all over it, half of 
them live strawberries.  She got through OK.  I think those days are over.

If there are no more posts from me after January, I will probably be in 
Brazil still doing paper work.

Claire Peplowski
NYS z4

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