CBP Updates its Paperless Bonds Process Info
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued updated information regarding its Revenue Division’s process for paperless bonds.
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(CBP issued its original notice in June 2010 and announced that the RD has started to process and store bond documents electronically.)
Changes from the June 2010 notice include:
Adds That Rejects Must be Converted to TIF Format
With this paperless process, each and every attachment submitted for a new continuous bond, termination request, bond rider, and rejection must be converted into a TIF format. It is requested that bond applications submitted as email attachments utilize the TIF formats with a dpi no larger than 300.
CBP’s previous notice on the paperless bonds process did not list rejections.
(The RD continues to recommend that filers submit bond applications via email and consolidate all documents in a single attachment. Continuous bond submissions should be scanned and submitted in the following order: CBP Form 301 (1st page), CBP Form 301 (2nd page), bond application, CBP Form 5106 (if applicable) and any other documents, i.e. power of attorney, partnership papers, etc. Only one copy of the CBP Form 301 should be submitted. Multiple copies are not necessary. Although not a requirement at this time, the RD anticipates that at some future date all bond submissions will be required to conform to these specifications.)
Adds that RD is Notifying Sureties of Approved Bond Submissions via Email
CBP’s paperless bond process notice has been revised to add that the RD is now notifying sureties of approved bond submissions via email. A limited number of notifications will continue to be issued via U.S. postal mail. Sureties that do not participate in receiving notifications of approved submissions via email should anticipate that it will take them a maximum of six more months to receive notification of approved bonds.
Contact Information Added
CBP’s paperless bond process notice also includes the following new information:
General questions about bond processing, as well as specific questions about the status of a particular bond application should be directed to (317) 614-4880, or via email to cbp.bondquestions@dhs.gov. After a bond application has been referred for rejection, any questions about that application should be directed to the Reject Team by leaving a voicemail at (317) 614-4881. Please note also that the Reject Team has its own fax number for accepting corrections to rejected bond submissions -- that number is (317) 298-1042.
(See ITT’s Online Archives or 06/15/10 news, 10061439, for BP summary of CBP’s original notice on the paperless bonds process.)