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Customs declaration form

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Form showing how much money and what goods you are carrying

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Landing card

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From with your personal details and date of arrival

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Vaccination certificate

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Paper proving you have had the necessary health injections

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Entry regulations

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Rules about who can enter a country and for how long

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Facial recognition technology

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Computer application that can authomatically identify a person from a visual image

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Spot check

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Checks done as a sample, rather than checking everyone or everything

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Banned or restricted goods

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Items that are forbidden or only permitted in specified quantities

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Allowance

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Amount permitted by law

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Sniffer/detector dogs

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Specially trained dogs who locate specific items using their sense of smell

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Detect

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Find something hidden

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Clear customs

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Successfully get through baggage checking

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Port of entry

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The port or airport where you first enter a country

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Refugees

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People who have escaped from their own country for political reasons

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Asylum

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To request permission to stay in another country to avoid persecution back home

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Persecution

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Cruel treatment because of race, religion or political beliefs

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Enforce

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Make people obey

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Suspicion

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Belief that something may be the case

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Search warrant

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Official permission from a judge or magistrate to search a home

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Exceeding the speed limit

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Going faster than the permitted speed

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Traffic wardens

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Someone whose job is to make certain that people do not leave their cars in illegal places

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Surveillance

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The careful watching of a person or place, especially by the police or army, because of a crime that has happened or is expected

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Security forces

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Often a name for the army and police working together

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Plain-clothes police

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Police who do not wear uniform

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Undercover police

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Police who do not wear uniform

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Drug squad

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Police specially trained to fight the illegal drug trade

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Anti-corruption squad

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Police specially trained to discover and fight bribery/corruption

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Cyber crime

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Computer crime

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Phishing

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An attempt to trick someone who has an internet bank account into giving information that would allow someone else to take money out of the account