port of entry
Noun
Meaning
a port in the United States where customs officials are stationed to oversee the entry and exit of people and merchandise
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All persons on yachts and other pleasure craft will be able to make arrangements for their required rapid tests at the port of entry or via the relevant website.
Every hour, it seemed, another Border Patrol van pulled up at the port of entry to expel more migrants.
A U.S law of 1825 required that all goods salvaged from wrecks in U.S. waters be taken to an American port of entry (which, for the Bahamians, meant Key West, Florida ).
Agents arrested a man allegedly trying to smuggle 7,000 rounds of ammunition into Mexico at the port of entry in Nogales.
At the Beat Hotel Burroughs discovered "a port of entry" into Gysin's canvases: "I don't think I had ever seen painting until I saw the painting of Brion Gysin."
Since asylum claims are evaluated either at a legal port of entry or processed after an individual has illegally entered the U.S., it’s important to weed out the valid from the frivolous.