To our best of knowledge, there has never been
an incident whereby anyone attempting to obtain medicine, amount,
which is within 90 days of supply through importation, has had experience
any legal problems or issues. Although, Customs authority has the
rights to decline any entry of shipment, importation of medicine
is not a crime unless the shipment is deemed to be within the category
of scheduled or controlled drugs like Marijuana, LSD, Ecstasy, Cocaine
and etc.
Shipment of prescribed medications, which originated from a legitimate
pharmacist or physician through mail order will either be approved
or declined by the custom authority. There are massive amount of
mails that is approximately amounted to 250,000 pieces of mails
coming from oversea which ranges from flat envelopes, regular mails,
document mails, small parcels and etc. that arrive at every USA
port of entry daily that are subjected to their clearance, which
makes it impossible for them to decline or even meticulously go
through more than 10% of the total volume. That leaves 90% of the
total mails to be approved of their entry legally with proper inspection.
If so happened that the package is randomly checked and deemed to
be inappropriate for import, it will be ‘detained’ or
legally termed as ‘seized’. Such seizure can be contested
based on the valid ground that the medicines are amounted to a 90
days supply or less for the sole purpose of personal administration.
There shall be no legal repercussions for this form of importation,
which is not deemed to be unlawful, and the ‘seizure’
is considered to be less ominous than an issued ticket for illegal
parking, which you are required to pay a stipulated amount of money
in order to compound the said offence. An act of ‘seizure’
in such instance is considered as ‘Shipment being declined
of its entry’.
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