I wouldn’t bring the metal plate across borders, especially if you’re traveling by plane. I would either memorize the seed phrase and then re-create it in the new country, or find a more inconspicuous method of moving the seed phrase. IMO, metal plates stay within borders.

Are you ACTUALLY looking to relocate w/your seed intact, or is this hypothetical? 🤔

Look up Borderwallets. It is an entropy grid that allows you to store a seed as a shape you can easily memorize. The grid itself can be posted to a public server, printed and carried with you, or emailed to yourself. The grid reveals nothing, but if your mind can store a shape and a single word (the...

Put a passphrase on it. Leave it with someone you trust. Memorize it. Set it up again. Create a new seed. Transfer out. Done.

I would probably obfuscate the seed phrase, say by shifting all the words by a fixed number, subtly mark the new words in a paperback novel and bury the metal plate somewhere as a backup plan.

Memorize it

nostr:nprofile1qqsgyyqq26d8yrsx6mfypynpf5whmdpw3znnekhllmvnslpduxvq38cze09xc the word shifting trick is the risky one. a homemade cipher you have to recall under stress is how coins get lost, and a bip39 passphrase does the same job with something every wallet already implements.

Write it on a piece of paper and put it in a conceal compartments in fake credit cards. Scouts membership card in your wallet with a fake oath on it that is your words. Things along the lines of the above.

Stamp on nylon washers, conceal in/on person