Crew and passengers must declare mandatory before Customs

From the 29 of July, All passengers and flight crews dutyán Declare before Customs, At the entrance and exit of Ecuador, the Customs Registration Form – FROM, A setback for facilitationóN of the travels.

What was necessary until today úonly for travelers entered or saltíthe delís con más de $10.000 dóAmerican lares or the equivalent in another currency, changeá Since the end of July and beá mandatory for all, Even for pilots and cabin crew, sí, así As they read it.

Así me lo confirmó directly in x:

All dutyán, obligatorily to declare before Customs of Ecuador

As we can see, either exit or entrance, be crew or passenger, dutyás make a statementón Customs mandatory, otherwise, couldás be fined for breaching the new standard of Ecuador.

Definitely, A setback and by más that this declarationón is already digital from the 9 from December to 2024, to beá A new tráunnecessary that, dutyá be controlled to thousands of passengers to DíA at the airports of Quito, Guayaquil and Manta, generating additional delays for travelers, más aún when to beá a howún denominator that many, Above foreigners, there will not beánoíof the requirement and couldíand segúin each case, even potentially lose a flight generating stretés and a bad travel experience towards our país that needs M so muchás tourists and recover your connectivity.

Specific, all dutyán Fill the form called Fra, independent of the cash value that they carry or bring and even now it is dueá value goods as artípersonal asses  and declare them.

¿CóMo fill the customs registration form?

In theory, is fácil, But as we are Ecuador and we like to complicate things, We must first have an account, imagíNate a Norwegian or a klm pilot having to create an account, since there is no opción of doing so as a visitor:

1. Enter a https://www.aduana.gob.ec/servicio-al-ciudadano/formulario-de-registro-aduanero/.
2. Create an account with your passport or Cédrama.
3. Select whether your declarationón is from entry or exit.
4. Select travel date and customs control point.
5. Complete your personal data.
6. Fill your airline dataínea, país de origen, destination and directionón.
7. Complete customs control questions.
8. Pon crear from.

Ready that's all, take close to 8 minutes and it depends on having all the data. It is worth indicating that when I try to create the FRAG, salió error and I could not finish the process and if you want to correct, You have to fill out everything, péSima experience as a user and not to mention the horrible translationón al inglés of this form.