I've read here several times that Uruguay's bureaucrats will give you a hard time if what you bring in, via your household goods, seems excessive for the number of people in your household.
One example given repeatedly was more than 2 computers for 2 people.
Seriously?
As I sit here in my home office, I count 7 computers within sight, and one out of sight.
I use them all. One is a general purpose machine (I'm typing on it now). Another is a general purpose work laptop, and one more is a netbook I take traveling. One is my better half's computer. The others all are dedicated to various small- or medium-sized specialized tasks such as MIDI music, printer management, podcast downloading, IP camera monitoring, and so on.
They're mostly veterans. The newest is from 2011. The music computer is 9 years old. It runs a 15 year old OS and 17 year old music software. The rest are mostly early- to mid-2000s laptops. The netbook is from 2008.
That's not counting a few extra parts laptops that keep the others going, mostly picked up at garage sales.
All in all I doubt that the total value of these aging computers exceeds US$800. Nobody in his right mind would want to buy such old machines, but collectively they accomplish that tasks I want them to. I would really hate to have to give them up.
So, do the brass there in Uruguay, the ones with this one-computer-per-person tunnel vision, have any kind of appeals process for whackos like me, giving me a shot at getting all my workhorses into the country with me?
Has anyone managed to bring in more than one computer per person? How?
Thanks for any thoughts or suggestions you may have about this.
One example given repeatedly was more than 2 computers for 2 people.
Seriously?
As I sit here in my home office, I count 7 computers within sight, and one out of sight.
I use them all. One is a general purpose machine (I'm typing on it now). Another is a general purpose work laptop, and one more is a netbook I take traveling. One is my better half's computer. The others all are dedicated to various small- or medium-sized specialized tasks such as MIDI music, printer management, podcast downloading, IP camera monitoring, and so on.
They're mostly veterans. The newest is from 2011. The music computer is 9 years old. It runs a 15 year old OS and 17 year old music software. The rest are mostly early- to mid-2000s laptops. The netbook is from 2008.
That's not counting a few extra parts laptops that keep the others going, mostly picked up at garage sales.
All in all I doubt that the total value of these aging computers exceeds US$800. Nobody in his right mind would want to buy such old machines, but collectively they accomplish that tasks I want them to. I would really hate to have to give them up.
So, do the brass there in Uruguay, the ones with this one-computer-per-person tunnel vision, have any kind of appeals process for whackos like me, giving me a shot at getting all my workhorses into the country with me?
Has anyone managed to bring in more than one computer per person? How?
Thanks for any thoughts or suggestions you may have about this.
