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Treat DD Form 1252 as Department-level, which changes how you look for it. Title: DD Form 1252, US CBP Declaration for Personal Property Shipments - Part I, February 2006. Function: U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Declaration for Personal Property Shipments - Part I. Because the number carries DD rather than a service prefix, the same edition covers all military departments and the defense agencies at once. Nobody issues a Navy copy or an Air Force copy.
Authority: not stated prescribes it, not stated maintains it. Those two names settle most disputes about why the form is being asked for. Local commands add timing on top; the requirement itself comes from above them.
Edition not stated, status not stated. That comparison is the first thing worth making, because a DD form supersedes centrally and an old copy in a shared drive is out of date for every office, not just yours.
Formats: PDF. Length 1 pages, approximately 23 entries. Pick on the basis of how you will complete it.
Take the fillable pdf unless you have a reason not to. Fillable means the boxes are real fields that accept typed text and retain it in the file. Printable means a flat blank — no fields, printer and pen only. The difference is not cosmetic: one produces a record that reproduces cleanly through scanning and forwarding, the other depends on penmanship.
Skip xfdl unless the viewer is already installed. It is the IBM Lotus Forms format, adopted Department-wide for electronic forms and still present in the set for that reason; ordinary pdf software reports it as unreadable.
All formats are free. One operational note: save the file locally and open it in a desktop reader. Browser-embedded viewers drop field properties and lose typed data without warning.
What the form asks for
- Customs declaration number.
- Part 1 - Household goods, unaccompanied baggage, and privately owned vehicles. 1. To: (overseas POE/APOE).
- 2. From (military customs inspector).
- Section A - Owner's customs declaration. 1. Name (last, first, middle initial, print or type).
- 4. Grade.
- 5. Social security number. Do not include dashes.
- 6. Unit address overseas (include A P O number).
- 7. Address in U.S. (include zip code).
- 8. Declaration for: Press space bar to mark X if Household Goods.
- 8. Mark X if Unaccompanied Baggage.
- 8. Mark X if privately owned vehicle.
- Number of members of family.
- Amount of alcohol beverages.
- Number of cigars.
- (7) I have been serving overseas under competent US Government orders and was: Press space bar to mark X in first box if assigned to permanent duty overseas, second box if required to perform temporary duty overseas for 140 days or more, third box if assigned to temporary duty overseas under orders, fourth box if directed from one overseas duty station to another, fifth box if directed to evacuate to the United States, or sixth box if directed to ship personal property in advance of travel orders.
- 10.a. Signature of owner.
- 10.b. Date (4 digit year, 2 digit month, 2 digit day).
- 11. Remarks.
- 12. For use of U.S. CBP officers.
- 13. Name of carrier.
- 14. Voyage or flight number.
- Copy designation. X appropriate box: 1 - Attach to manifest, 2 - Place in envelope affixed to No. 1 cargo container, 3 - Origin transportation office file, or 4 - Owner.
- Press this Reset button to clear the data from all fields.
Start by matching the printed date to not stated. Old blanks accumulate in shared folders for years. Because the Department reissues to all services in one action, nobody is still accepting the previous layout by local custom.
For anything ambiguous in a specific field, the form's own instructions come first and not stated controls where the two differ.
Submit to the office named in not stated or in local instruction; retain a duplicate before it leaves. Joint routing often sends a DD form across organizational boundaries, and tracing one afterward is not a same-day matter.
Related forms are found by number alone. The DD sequence is one unified Department-wide series, so a cited number resolves to exactly one document with no branch qualifier needed.
Do not read across from a service number. DA numbering is Army-specific under an Army proponent; DD numbering is Department-wide under not stated or an equivalent Department office. The sequences are unrelated, so identical digits in each identify two different documents. Read the prefix, not the digits.
Revision follows directive changes, changed data requirements and amended notice language, unannounced. Verify not stated each time rather than trusting a saved copy — the cost of the check is seconds.
What is here is the blank form and a description of it. What is not here is legal guidance or any assurance about a particular filing — this page is not the issuing authority and does not speak for one. Those questions go to not stated, to your servicing administrative office, or to the authority identified in not stated.
Questions and answers
- What is DD Form 1252?
- DD Form 1252, US CBP Declaration for Personal Property Shipments - Part I, February 2006
- Which edition is current?
- Not stated by the publisher
- Who is responsible for this form?
- Not stated
- In which formats can it be downloaded?