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Home » Reader question » Reader question: Where at Schiphol should I indicate that I am bringing a lot of money to Thailand?
Reader question: Where at Schiphol should I indicate that I am bringing a lot of money to Thailand?
Dear readers,
I'm going to Thailand soon and want to take more than € 10.000 with me. Where exactly should I declare this at Schiphol after I have checked in at
EVAair?
Regards,
Jan
Then you have to make a declaration to Customs.
You can download the declaration form at the bottom of the page. You fill this in and hand it over to Dutch Customs when you leave the EU from the Netherlands or when you arrive in the Netherlands from outside the EU. Are you traveling into or out of the EU via another EU country? Then file a declaration with the Customs of that EU country and ask for the declaration form there.
Just Google customs money Schiphol
https://www.belastingdienst.nl/wps/wcm/connect/nl/bagage/content/geld-meenemen-op-reis
Schiphol: File a declaration with Customs in Departure Hall 3 (Office Tax refund/OB refund).
Also declare the money upon arrival in Thailand. That is the most important thing. Once you have taken your luggage, leave the baggage hall via 13. There you say that you have money to declare. Takes 5 minutes at most in Thailand.
What Paul wrote is correct. I had all the necessary papers. However, customs at Schiphol acted very strangely. It took more than an hour. I was told that their copy machine was defective and that she had to go to another department. Saw them making phone calls with my form in hand. After an hour the requirements stamp. Then to the security check. There I was taken a separate passport and all the money was counted. I gave the paper from the customs that everything was approved. had been approved half an hour earlier. But there was no response. Even more people were called in. I said that I still miss my plane, but they didn't care. Customs was called after half an hour, two officials arrived. They read the letter of approval and everything was okay. But I was 3 hours further and the queue at passport control had become gigantic. Connecting to that was missing the plane if I neatly joined the queue. So I asked you to have me Detained for more than 2 hours now I miss my flight you can't give me priority at passport control. They walked away without an answer. Then I went to stand in front of the queue myself. And I was able to catch my flight just in time. In short go to Schiphol well in advance 4 hours. Still gets angry when I think back treated like a criminal. Good handling and flight.
Johan
What an amateurish attitude of both the customs officers and the security staff. I can imagine your powerlessness and stress to miss your flight. Wasn't there of course, but after all that waiting you logically get irritated and that may have been reflected in your request for priority at passport control. Those 2 guys from customs will probably not have been pleased by your, incidentally justified, comment that you lost more than 2 hours on this matter and therefore threatened to miss your plane. Downright rude of them to walk away without replying to you. In any case, a good tip from you to be at Schiphol in plenty of time when you have to declare carrying more than € 10.000 with you.
Either you exaggerate with your times, or you didn't look too reliable in their eyes, or the work at the airport is amateurish. I have already declared money several times at the airport in Brussels and it only takes 5 minutes.
Yes after passport control to customs and declare there.
I've done that once and will never do it again. Neatly ordered money from the bank, added paper from the bank with the types of banknotes, signed by the bank. So nothing wrong you would say.
To the customs office for declaration, all the money had to be on the table in a closed room, including small change.
Long story short, was locked up for an hour and a half and treated like a criminal, barely time to catch my flight. The customs tax employees come to their senses and they harass quite a bit to come up with an excuse for having checked the wrong social security number afterwards. They can see that the money comes from my bank, have no debts based on my social security number and still come up with 97000 euros outstanding but did not refer to my social security number.
I don't take that much money with me anymore, at least all the money I will have with me, also foreign currency will remain below 10.000 euros. They can screw up there.
But a lot of success.
Roel, since June 2015, passport control at Schiphol takes place after the security check! Download and complete the relevant form at home (see Paul's response) and when you arrive at Schiphol, hand in the form at Customs in Departure Hall 3 (see Ger's response) and have the money counted. If necessary, you can check in with the airline before visiting the customs office. After checking in and handling at the customs office, you go to the security check, where, as Johan described, the money is counted again and unfortunately in Johan's case, the employees did not know what to do, which caused the necessary delay. Passport control now takes place last. After that you can possibly shop tax-free, have a drink or eat something, and then go to the right gate.
I will think about it. Sometimes I also hear positive messages.
Match what is described above. Better not start it. You are also registered, and an extra target on subsequent flights. If the opportunity is there, then you better overwrite it. Be careful
I would anyway file a complaint with the ombudsman if I feel unfairly treated by the government, everyone understands that they have to check for money laundering practices, but they have to treat you decently.
It makes sense to mention it here so people know they could be wasting a lot of time, but it doesn't solve anything in terms of rude treatment.
Had the same experience at pier D to declare money. Very rude and rude people there, I was 2 hours away. A very stout lady said that I had to wait a while, because she was working. When I made the comment that I was also working, it was bingo. Made me wait for half an hour and then 2 guys came in and was taken into their office. Had a significant amount on me and was just a bank statement with the bank's withdrawal note. everything was counted and I had to empty my pockets, then a few more 100 were added, fill in all the papers again and put the exact amount on them. can access your bank account, I noticed. Then I had to open my laptop and view photos that were on it, when I asked what for, I received the answer:,, You are going to Thailand and we know what kind of people are going there,, the word pedophile just didn't fall out of his mouth. Almost missed my flight, they have achieved that I never declare money again, just in my suitcase, with record book with me because I don't want that misery anymore.
Typical, that behavior of those unreserved power-hungry at Schiphol! They seem - not to mention the good guys - time and time again to completely forget that WE, taxpayers who cough up their salaries and helped them get their jobs, are their boss. The bourgeoisie is in charge. They are the servants of the people, the civil servants as they say in GB. So they are there to serve US, the citizens – not the other way around!
These power bums can't be reminded of that often enough.
In fact, they also contribute to their salary as Dutch taxpayers and are therefore also accountable to themselves. But despite the negative experiences (not to mention the good ones) a little more understanding would be better in general. As human beings we remain equal to each other or do you belong to a lower category as a civil servant.
I know, it is an unimportant detail in your eyes, but: those officials are also the implementers of the legislation apparently also desired by the taxpayers…………
I am open-mouthed reading these comments. What inspires someone to travel with more than €10.000 in cash? Is this just to avoid a few cents in costs for transfers or debit cards? Special.
Erik for me those few cents were a capital. And the biggest advantage is in the exchange. exchange at an exchange office and you can then negotiate a better rate. And then bring those few cents to BKK bank. Can you recommend it, you will also earn a few cents extra.
If you have a high amount exchanged in a currency exchange office, you may receive a higher exchange rate than indicated.
@ rude power-hungry at Schiphol!
Can I fully agree, I have been avoiding Schiphol like the plague for 5 years after an incident in which I was treated like a dog, the word I want to use for these people is not allowed by the moderator, but has something to do with the 2nd World War.
A good friend of mine once got tired of this kind of treatment and said: "what are you guys actually a bunch of idiots", that cost him a fine of 270 euros, and missed a plane, I still find ignorance a very mild expression if I said the above read stories.
Just take another airport then you will not be treated as an untermensch with such a show of force, that treatment is because you are a Dutch national.
Another monkey sandwich story. One simply cannot impose a fine for the simple use of the term ignorant.
Monkey sandwich is your response. Were you ever there? what do you base your opinion on? Don't forget that the word Homo has been made a criminal offense no matter how unimaginably if you say it to an official it will result in a fine, so I think something has changed in legislation or implementation.
I maintain that if civil servants behave rudely, they should not be surprised if people can no longer contain themselves verbally.
It has been extensively in the news. Officials Police and other servants have had enough of being called names, whether they called it out on their own or not, it doesn't matter. Even the most innocent can be taken as an insult.
What I didn't mention (I wanted to keep it short) is that after much irritation from both sides there was also a slight skirmish, a bit of pulling and pushing but not serious and he had been ordered to take back his words, which he didn't. did.
So then they had enough of it and he of them. that resulted in the fine. 2 hours later and the necessary paperwork he was able to go home to resume his journey the next day.
While I'm at it, the whole story is actually unbelievable because he himself had complained to customs that the money dog that sniffed him did not react and walked on to someone else.
Then they asked him, do you have any money with you? yes the answer was 9000 euros. then he had to go into the office because they wanted to see the money. He then said No because then I will miss my plane, I tell you that I have money with me, then he was jumped by 4 officials and dragged into the office.
Well this was not smart of him, but that was the man's character very honest and thought correctly with this report. to act .NO SO!
I wouldn't have said anything, but he had once trained dogs and was amazed that this was also done for safety.
Bring 9000 euros in cash plus what you normally have in your wallet, of course stay below 10.000 euros. Bring bank cards and withdraw 500 euros in baht every day in Thailand and have a family member or good friend deposit an amount at Western Union once or twice, which you pick up on the spot.. That's how I do it nowadays if I want to take a large amount with me to take. I will never report anything at Schiphol again, I was once treated like a criminal and almost missed my flight and they don't care….
Bringing cash and especially in such quantities is just asking for problems, theft, loss, etc.
But if you don't want anything else, take 9999 Euros with you.
No problem then I think.
Jan Beute.
Just this: everyone who departs from Schiphol is, according to OUR customs (because it is ours, not vice versa) a World Traveler.
A huge amount of capital has been wasted by our government to make TV-watching Netherlands believe in this laughable fairy tale through a wave of expensive TV commercials. We MUST download the CUSTOMS APP before departure, so that we know exactly what those people are and are not allowed to do on the way.
Those people really think that the Dutch, as soon as they go on holiday or otherwise want to escape for a while, will first look at the customs app!
I have news for our customs: Dutch people are crossing the border en masse to avoid being bothered for a while by that highly irritating, ubiquitous government control. The last thing traveling NL people do is see what our exemplary government thinks of their movements outside the Netherlands.
Customs sees a criminal in anyone traveling to or from Thailand – whether they have downloaded the expensive customs app or not!
Coincidentally, I left Schiphol on 3-10 and declared more than €10k in currency and securities at customs.
I followed Paul's tip (the first response) and downloaded the form and completed it on the way to Schiphol.
After handing in my luggage at the check-in desk in terminal 3, I went to the customs office. That office is located in terminal 3 diagonally in front of check-in desks 30 and 31.
When filling out the form, I crossed out some mistakes, which was rejected by the officer. He then looked for a new form that I had to fill in again at the counter. I filled in accurately to the penny what I was going to export in terms of currency, etc. Proof of where the money came from was not asked.
Then he went to another room and phoned for a few minutes, after which I got the form back stamped.
All in all it took 5 to 10 minutes.
Then through the airline ticket checkpoints, through the paranoia department and through immigration. I have not been approached/taken aside by officials during the remaining hour before boarding time.
PS: Last year I wanted to declare an amount smaller than €10k, but they didn't want to process that. (Nor in Thailand, by the way, but – although less than $20k – yes this time.)