Customs Question

[Ohio_Buckeye_1]

If you bring an electronic item down for your personal use, customs expects you to take it back with you. If you do not take it back with you, this is not what is keeping with the "personal use" concept (please dont confuse this with something that you can "use up" like soap, shampoo, etc). So yes, if you fail to bring back an electronic item that was declared as "personal use", whether you want to believe it or not, you are breaking the law.

I know about that half of the customs rules - tourists bringing down personal items on vacation. Most questions and answers on this board are focused on that category - for obvious reasons.

But there is a whole other set of customs rules if you are moving there (even half-time) and bringing your household items there. When doing that you are obviously not going to take the items back off the island when you travel back-and-forth between USA and JA. I thought some of the people on this board might have gone thru that and could explain some of THOSE rules to me. I am sure I can't just explain to the customs official that I am engaged and am building a house and bringing down goods that are for my personal use only - not gifts or for resale. I know once married, and we both are eventually "legal" in each others countries - I will be able. But is there something I can do in between those two conditions?

Some people on this board have moved to JA without marrying a Jamaican. I was hoping to get benefit of their experience with customs rules. Or from people who were in the same condition for a while I am in - engaged and/or building a house and therefore wanting to bring down household items - before becoming "official" with a TRN, etc. Maybe there's a bright line - nothing doing before marriage vs all allowed after marriage. But Jamaica just seems like it always has gray areas - if you know where to go and fill out the right forms. That's what I am asking about.