U.S. Customs and Border Protection has announced that as of Nov. 14 applicants for individual customs broker licenses must complete and submit all applications and associated fees through the eCBP portal. Applications that are hand-delivered, mailed, or emailed on or after that date will be returned to the applicant for submission through this electronic portal.
CBP states that individual applicants will log into eCBP using the same login.gov account used when they applied for the customs broker license exam. Credit card and debit card payments will be accepted, no additional fees will be charged for payments, and receipts will be provided electronically. CBP notes that applications submitted via this method will be placed into the existing queue of applications.
CBP notes that this change will not affect the process of submitting broker license applications for organizations, which will remain a manual process for now but which CBP appears to intend to automate eventually.
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