What will happen when the group arrives the first day?
The Peace Corps staff will meet you on arrival and help facilitate your clearance through immigration and customs. Due to the excellent reputation of Peace Corps here, this is usually a relatively painless process. Your bags will be tagged with colored yarn at Staging to enable you to identify and separate your luggage from other passengers. You only need to complete the Customs Declaration form only if you are carrying more than $1,000 in cash, a computer, musical instrument or an expensive camera. After having your passport stamped, clearing customs and loading your baggage into a truck, you will board a bus for the ride to the training center. We know you will be tired, maybe hungry and thirsty, and we will take that into consideration. We will go directly to the Peace Corps training site or another meeting venue, where your host families will be waiting to meet and greet you. We will try to keep those introductions very brief, but you can expect a genuinely hospitable and friendly