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Should I start putting my phone in checked baggage? Is that allowed with the batteries and stuff? I guess I can carry a cheap older smartphone with a burner num
by dyauspitr 1y ago
Should I start putting my phone in checked baggage? Is that allowed with the batteries and stuff? I guess I can carry a cheap older smartphone with a burner number for the actual flight.
- tsimionescu 1y agoThat wouldn't matter, you get your checked luggage before border control, don't you?
- lifeinthevoid 1y agoNot really, in JFK terminal 4 at least, you get your luggage after passing through immigration.
- knorker 1y agoNo. Sure, if you get sent to secondary screening they may pick up your bag for you, but no. Luggage pickup is after CBP. As far as I remember this is the case everywhere.
- ryandrake 1y agoEvery country I’ve ever travelled to, it’s: 1. Go through immigration, 2. Pick up your luggage, 3. Go through customs.
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- account42 1y agoNot in any airport I have been to. Usually it's landing -> immigration (border control) -> baggage claim -> customs (just walk through if you have nothing to declare) -> exit.
- lifeinthevoid 1y agoSure, if you want to look extra suspicious.
- serf 1y agoYour phone hasn't been a secure data-store across US national borders for 15+ years. (if ever.)
- treve 1y agoDelete social media or wipe your phone and restore on your destination. On a laptop, you could use a decoy OS on a separate partition. The best way to seem like you're not hiding something is to have something else to show.
- axus 1y agoBefore entering authoritarian countries, you should factory reset the phone, add a minimum contact list, and have a process for restoring what you need from the cloud. No need to store phone in luggage. Also better to leave the laptop at home, if you don't want to wipe it.
- mosdl 1y agoTake out the sim and say the phone has no internet connection
- account42 1y agoThey have WIFI.
- oldpersonintx2 1y ago[dead]