Immigrant Daily

CBP Notice on Mitigation of Carrier Fines for Transporting Aliens without Proper Documents

The U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has published a general notice in the federal registrar regarding the mitigation of carrier fines for transporting aliens without proper documents; modification of memorandum of understanding and recalculation of performance levels to measure carrier performance. The notice provides that, a transportation company that violates the provisions will be subject to a fine for each alien brought into the U.S. without the required documentation.  However, pursuant to statute and regulations, if a carrier that enters into a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with CBP, agreeing to follow procedures set forth in the MOU, commits a violation and becomes subject to a penalty, such carrier would not have to apply for a reduction of the fine, but would be eligible for an automatic reduction. Further, the notice announces that CBP has made changes to the existing Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) and has recalculated and reset the performance levels CBP will use to measure carrier performance of its travel document screening responsibilities pursuant to the MOU.” The revised MOU is appended to the notice.

CBP will begin accepting the signed revised MOU’s on April 23, 2010 and will discontinue automatic processing of reduced fines based on the expired MOU practice on the same day.

For complete information, please click: CBP Notice: Mitigation of Carrier Fines for Transporting Aliens Without Proper Documents