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llamataboot on Feb 17, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: What could happen if you refuse to unlock your pho...

This is unclear. They can ASK, but as far as I know it's unsettled territory whether this is refusable.You can definitely refuse it as a USC and I would bet, as an LPR. Gets trickier when on any other visa as then your entry is essentially all "discretion"

tptacek on Feb 17, 2017 [–]

The problem is that it's pretty much CBP's discretion whether you --- a non-citizen --- are being responsive. There aren't statutes for this stuff.

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