point of entry

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point of entry - a port in the United States where customs officials are stationed to oversee the entry and exit of people and merchandise

port of entry

port - a place (seaport or airport) where people and merchandise can enter or leave a country

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This, then, included epidemiologists, clinicians, laboratory experts, communication officers, social mobilization experts, refugee experts, logisticians, point of entry focal points and infection prevention and control experts.

Ebola simulation drills in Tanzania trade worry for calm at border entry points

"Since the child was identified at the point of entry, there are no contacts in Uganda," Dr Joyce Moriku, the State Minister for Health in charge of Primary Health Care, said in the statement.The case is the second outbreak to be reported in Uganda after the first in June which claimed two people who had travelled from Congo.

Uganda confirms another Ebola case in Kasese

This notice initiates the adoption process, and the publication of this notice triggers the first point of entry. (6)

The Points of Entry for Rule Challenges Post Florida Pulp & Paper

Beto O'Rourke, D-El Paso, get instructions prior to touring the tent city at Tornillo Point of Entry.

Chaos at the Texas-Mexico border: Scenes from Tornillo to the Rio Grande Valley

'We will tackle the drug menace at the point of entry and that is our ports.

NAFDAC to tackle importation of unlicensed drugs frontally aDG

The NHS belongs to the people and we do not want privatisation, but Mr P Armstrong is using mealy-mouthed words like "free at the point of entry".

Not all that it seems; Views of the North

The rule: It takes $1 to verify the accuracy of a record at the point of entry; $10 to clean it in batch form; and $100 per record if nothing is done, including the costs of undeliverable shipments, low customer retention, and inefficient CRM initiatives.

Express Entry[R] speeds e-commerce transactions and address accuracy with auto-completion

Concert-goers should check their ticket carefully in advance and those holding tickets in the pitch standing area (no under-12s permitted) and tier one and tier two seats, should follow signs to their designated colour-coded point of entry.

Check out your zone for 1D gig

Capture at the Point of Entry is the process of scanning documents as soon as the documents enter an organization, applying business rules to minimize exceptions, and extracting business information to send downstream as quickly as possible.

7 ways that Capture at the Point of Entry beats Point of Origination

The jockey, who was riding Animal Kingdom for the first time, was to cop some flak for this early manoeuvre on the odds-on favourite when Shug McGaughey's Breeders' Cup Turf runner-up Point Of Entry edged ahead of him in the final furlong under John Velazquez to score by a length and a quarter for his fourth Grade 1 victory.

Kingdom replaced as World Cup favourite

The single point of entry adds improved aesthetics to its list of benefits, he said.