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Can US Border Officers Really Take My Cell Phone?

By Grant Uhler & Guest Contributor on November 7, 2017
Posted in Global Employers & International Expansion, Immigration & Mobility, US
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Melissa Allchin, a Global Immigration and Mobility attorney in Baker McKenzie’s Chicago office, provides the answer in a nut shell . . .

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