The Central American country of Belize has launched its sex offender registry last week.
Unlike the United States (and like most countries) the registry is non-public. Concerned citizens would be required to complete a questionnaire/application form, and if approved, the authorized individuals would then be granted a password to access the system.
According to this article in the San Pedro Sun, “most of the information about sex offenders is confidential nature, those granted access would be expected to treat the information in a responsible manner, and to widely publicize data on individuals which could lead to mass community hysteria, and result in unwarranted attacks against the registered offenders by parents concerned about the safety of their children. The object is to prevent crime, not to provoke more crime inadvertently.”
I own property in Belize that I am leaving to my son He has to register as an offender for a consensual relationship with a 15 year old when he was a 20 Served his time over 20 years ago He was turned away from Mexico this week and lost thousands on vacation Can he go to Belize??
Likely no they just adopted IML a few years ago and that treaty is the death of having a chance of entering the country.
Of course I could be wrong and I’d be glad to hear otherwise.
I am trying to find out if a SO can come into Belize to live and work?
While the Belize policy might sound reasonable, it is still punitive when it is used to restrict/deny entry. Put lipstick on a pig, you still have a pig.
that is exactly the way Americas started and most others started as well. its the “soft” approach.. Later comes the real deal..always does..
What does the government expect a senior citizen to do when they get dementia and forget to report to the sheriff every 90 days? Did you know that if you’re on the SRO that you can never live in a nursing home?
Just looked at TAG Travel Matrix. Belize is turning away SO’s?
YES – individuals are reporting that they are being turned back. Belize is no longer allowing registrants to enter.
This makes me so incredibly angry and helpless at the same time. I got a dive trip into Belize a little over a year ago and hoped to go back. When is this insanity going to stop?!?
This is how it is supposed to be done. Also I don’t mind registering in other countries just as long as they don’t deny me entry. You register basic info with them as you land and be done with to enjoy your stay. Of course, I would rather have none of that and travel to vacation like any regular citizen, but it’s better than being denied entry to be sent back and waste all that time, energy and money, not to mention feeling shamefully embarrassed.
If the US notifies a country yo are coming, you get denied entry. How can any sovereign nation hear from the world guardian USA that ” A monster is coming” and let them in?
Please let me know what countries have allowed you in with full notification by the USA?
The matrix maintained by Resident Travel Action Group gives a rough idea of which countries.
The green notice in Interpol doesn’t exactly say, a monster is coming. Instead, it says, this person has a conviction of x, here is their itinerary.
Some countries interpret that as U.S. pressure to deny entry and do so. Others think it’s a joke. And some, namely continental European countries in the Schengen Agreement, view it as a human rights violation and pay it no regard.
So again, which countries have let you in, with full notification coming from the US?
TAG’s matrix is outdated and misleading. A lot of the countries that say SO’s were admitted were without notification, pre IML.
Well I’m a 49yo RSO from Georgia who’s crime was 31 years ago and travel the world. Now I’m in Guatemala but got the 3rd degree plus they went thru ALL my stuff and asked a million questions but let me in. I tried Honduras but they denied me. I was in Belize 2017 with no issues and have friends there but not so sure now with new law. I want to go back but fear I’ll be turned back. However Mexico doesn’t allow us BUT I just walked across the border into Juarez City via El Paso with NO ISSUES! I had a GREAT time! Just WALKED in they didn’t even check my passport, coming BACK the US AGENTS harassed me a bit, as usual!. Europe is no problem EXCEPT England and Ireland, they’ll deny you. Fly into Paris (it’s easiest way) and take trains to the other countries, NOBODY checks passports (Skechten borders) except in Switzerland and they STILL let me in. All of Africa except South Africa is good (Morocco is AWESOME!). Thailand in 2010 I got in, Cambodia and Myanmar but NOW I think it’s changed. I got into Japan for 1 day during a 24 hour layover with no issues. South America is off limits EXCEPT Trinidad I believe. Jamaica NO sadly. And Dominican Republic is a no go, but Haiti is ok i think. British Virgin Isles let me in also in 2012. Fact is we have to NOTIFY the Sheriffs dept before we leave and THEY tell the FBI who tells Interpol as they BOTH kiss each other’s BUTTS who informs the other countries. So ALWAYS tell them where you’re going or you’ll get arrested. You may lose a few hundred dollars on a plane ticket but it’s better than prison! The laws are draconian and it’s just a way to win votes. Maybe you’ll get into a country or not, but atleast try! I travel to HELP RSO’s know where they can go. Good luck!
This passport crap with a stamp in the back is not fair. I was planning on moving to South America because of the crap to report every 90 days to your local sheriff. I’ve done my time and parole and it’s tough enough w/o having this passport crap. I am also a senior citizen living on only social security because I can’t get a job because of both my age and register. I think we ought to start our own national “union” and appear at the White House in Washington D.C. like the women all over our country have done. It would be nice to have a website that solely helps RSO’s know where they can travel or move to. In the meantime I’m planning on moving to another country while I can. I hate to leave my family behind though.
You’re right it is not fair what they were doing and needs to be stopped. I have purchased a condo in Belize and owned property there and was planning to retire there, now I cannot get in. So now I must sell my condo and empty my bank account over there and move somewhere else. Is there anywhere else that speaks English which is the only language I speak that I would be comfortable and have white sands in a beautiful ocean, I doubt it. They’ve ruined my retirement and ruin my life! Yester
Maybe puerto rico. I believe you could get in there
Puerto Rico is the United States
That’s American territory, so you’ll still have to register.
I would like to do the same as you when you stop traveling. Do you think there is funding available for me to travel to see where sex offenders are able to gain entry to and what goes through the entire process. I would like to constantly travel to not only different countries to video and see how we are treated but also visit each state to see how everything differs in each state.
I traveled to Kenya 2 times and lived there prior to the 3rd time going in 2018 and I was turned away. I even have my citizenship there due to my father being from there. I had to pay to get my name out of the system there. Otherwise I would’ve been bared from all the East African countries since they all are tied together. If you go to Kenya, I’d say know someone so that you can pay to get into the country. I know it’s sad, but that’s that’s climate that we live in being labeled as such.
Germany,, anything older than 10 years Germans don’t care. And they shy away from registry’s as that is what Hitler did with the Jews .
Does it say foreign nationals are required? There are justice system differences amongst the world. If we were not prosecuted by the legal system of that country how can there be a sanction?
And another set of second class citizens is created for political manipulation and abuse. I feel for those who are about to have their lives ruined.
It is going to be used just as it is here…to control with fear and misinformation.
Even Central America can exercise common sense. Hear that Florida…and most of the USA!
I wonder if that means that we will no longer be able to travel/move to that country? I am planning on visiting again with the purpose of buying a property next year.
Same here had my sights on the country but a simple trip to florida killed me
Agreed. My wife and I went there last year and really enjoyed the trip. I figured that was my go to place since all the other Central American countries are now off limits.
Please keep us posted if you find out if they are now denying us entry.
Exactly what it will translate into!
Oh well. There is always Thailand
Another United States in the making!!!
I disagree. Belize can’t possibly be as stupid as the law makers and keepers are in America.. I love my country and what it used to be but it’s all but dead now.. I’ll abandon it as easily as my ex-wife did me12 years ago.
Never underestimate the amount of stupidity or corruption available in the human mind..every time you do someone will take it as a challenge..
This country is corrupt
I would love to get a pass to just leave. When you find the way. lets talk. I am interested.
Correct we should leave if we want to move to another country. I would love to get out of this country because of the laws are not right. The constitution says when your time is up there was no further persecution for your crime. So what is the sex offender registry other than further persecution. I will leave this country And never look back, will retire overseas somewhere nice. I love this country but not Willing to stay here and be persecuted.
I agree, only thing it does it makes things harder for us. As is I get notices I open new accounts around the world with all my info,which is available to the world,mailbox gets shot,beat with objects. Unsolicited mail,emails and phone calls, because it’s all public. And favorite of all is open discrimination at employer and denied pay increase for the past 4 years while everyone else gets them and paid better, employer ignored by safety which caused a life long injury. Yea the usa is doing real great with the registry and entrapment. Yay us all.
How do you thank a third world country for showing more incite in making knowledgeable decisions based on facts when a first world country takes the lead in making decisions based on hysteria and biased ignorance.. thank you FAC
Also did you notice they did there research before they started the registry not afterward like in the US. And noted that .07% of crimes were sex related and 40 % of those involved minors where they live and by a relative. Facts not stranger danger hysteria that the US trumped up with no facts to back it up. And they only were concerned with rape and molestation not urinating on the side of the road or spanking your kids or every stretch of the imagination and calling it a sex crime and destroying families. I don’t think Belize will go down that road because they don’t have all the money in the world to burn like the US.
While laudably it is claiming to be private, that to is how the American registry’s started.. It is a Pandora box.. When you let a politician get an inch they will eventually take a mile. When they learn how many times they can cover their own wrong doings and how many votes they can garner they will start piling the corruption..When they learn how much money they can launder like America they will never stop…
Yes, America did start their registry as non-public. I was in real estate then and we talked about that very thing. People could check at the police station and ask though…if they were home buyers.
yea evil may start out small but it never ends small..best to not go that road to start with.. its like an infection if allowed to take root it soon becomes a gangrene and infects the entire organism… look at the American justice system..It is so corrupted and infected it would literally require a complete restructuring of impossible proportions to make it resemble a justice system again… It would be simpler to completely erase the entire American fake system and start over then to try and fix it at this point.. its toast. Nothing can save the American un-justice system. it is that malignant.
Yes I agree the system has failed. When you pass to lie to tactor test then you asked for 12 jurors and they refuse and they give you only six jars that have been stacked you have no way of winning and you’re forced into a play. So there’s no way to win with these laws here in America. They are very unjust!