POE - personal belongings value

[SF2007 48]

I couldn't find an answer on the forum and I am crossing Wednesday :

When you active your K-1, do you need to provide an estimate worth for the personal belongings you are travelling with? If so, how do you estimate used clothes value...? I am just taking 2 luggage of clothes, shoes and some jewelry. Do I need to go over everything and estimate the total worth?

Any advise is welcome. Thank you!

[Blob18 111]

I couldn't find an answer on the forum and I am crossing Wednesday :

When you active your K-1, do you need to provide an estimate worth for the personal belongings you are travelling with? If so, how do you estimate used clothes value...? I am just taking 2 luggage of clothes, shoes and some jewelry. Do I need to go over everything and estimate the total worth?

Any advise is welcome. Thank you!

There is really no way to estimate clothing value unless you just bought it. If the jewelry is expensive or worth something and you have an idea on it's cost you could put that down.

Edited June 13, 2011 by Blob18

[Krikit 1,164]

The only time there is a request for the monetary value of your personal belongings is if you are importing a vehicle.

[Kathryn41 3,205]

I never included the value on any of my personal belongings when I brought them in across the border. I also used a professional mover and had much more than 2 suitcases and some jewelry - it still wasn't a problem not having a valuation of the items. You may wish to list certain expensive items for your own protection if you need to pursue insurance (eg if you have some expensive pieces of jewellry) but other than vehicles, as Krikit mentioned, generally value is not requested - you should be fine. btw - you have up to ten years after you move to bring over any of your other belongings duty free - and that can include items from a parent's home in which you lived as they would count as part of your property for immigration purposes.

[BlueBonnet 84]

Heres something that I used. Im sorry, but I have to link the entire thread to you. The 2nd posting has a link, that is the file that you want to read.

http://www.visajourney.com/forums/topic/276809-drivingmoving-from-canada-to-us-with-k1-visa/

[Krikit 1,164]

Heres something that I used. Im sorry, but I have to link the entire thread to you. The 2nd posting has a link, that is the file that you want to read.

To link directly to a specific post, click on the post # in the top right-hand corner. For example, your post # is 5. A box will pop up in a separate window. Hover your cursor over the box, right click your mouse, then hit cut or copy. Now you have the link.

[BlueBonnet 84]

Ahhh Krikit, I think you may be attempting to educate me here. Complete waste of your time

When I was trying to learn everything I could about the proper procedures for this process, I would read and read. I would email myself anything that was to long to read right then and there, or information that I knew I would need. This was one of those things I emailed to myself. So when I saw the OP question, I just went into my email, and found the thread I had kept on this topic.

So I may have been a bit on the lazy side with my reply

[SF2007 48]

Thank you everyone for taking time to reply. Much appreciated

[Veronik 19]

Thank you everyone for taking time to reply. Much appreciated

Have a good POE by the way! I had written down every single item in each luggage in case I was asked for it (i was flying), but that never came up during my POE.

[redfragglekat 0]

I crossed at the Thousand Islands crossing on May 30th with my fiance, his SUV and a UHAUL trailer of belongings. I had a list all prepared of the contents of each box, and they didn't even bother to look at it. They asked to have the UHAUL opened, and checked to be sure it was boxes (and not, like, people I guess) but other than that, I had nothing else to delcare, record or list.

[OBX 51]

To link directly to a specific post, click on the post # in the top right-hand corner. For example, your post # is 5. A box will pop up in a separate window. Hover your cursor over the box, right click your mouse, then hit cut or copy. Now you have the link.

Cool! I never knew you could do that...now I do! Thanks Krikit.

In reply to the OP I was not asked about the value of any of my personal belongings at my POE.

[SF2007 48]

Just to confirm in case someone POEing soon was keeping an eye on this post : I just went through Pearson's customs and they did not ask my items value or search.