RTAG's International Travel Matrix
Registrant Travel Action Group (RTAG – www.registranttag.org), an RSOL affiliate organized to protect the international travel rights for lawful travel of registrants, is putting together a travel matrix, to serve as a snapshot guide to warn which countries you may have difficulty traveling to.
Since the US is now sending out travel alerts whenever a registered citizen travels, you need to be mindful of issues you may have at certain borders.
The below matrix is a work-in-progress and if you have traveled internationally as a registered citizen, we ask that you share your experience with RTAG (good or bad), so that information can be shared.
You can reach RTAG at the following:
Email: info@registranttag.org
Phone: 1.972.638.0651
| Area | Country | SOs turned away | Law keeping out SOs | Law keeping out felons | SO Registry | ||||||
| Mexico | Mexico | YES | YES | Unk | NO | ||||||
| Canada | Canada | YES | YES | YES | YES | ||||||
| Central Amer | Belize | NO | NO | NO | NO | ||||||
| Costa Rica | YES | NO | Unk | NO | |||||||
| Guatemala | NO | NO | NO | NO | |||||||
| Panama | YES | YES | YES | NO | |||||||
| Nicaragua | YES | NO | NO | NO | |||||||
| Caribbean | Aruba | NO | NO | NO | NO | ||||||
| Bahamas | NO | NO | NO | NO | |||||||
| Dom republic | YES | NO | NO | NO | |||||||
| Jamaica | YES | NO | NO | YES | |||||||
| St Lucia | NO | NO | NO | NO | |||||||
| Trinidad | NO | NO | NO | NO | |||||||
| South Amer | Argentina | YES | YES | Unk | Unk | ||||||
| Brazil | YES | YES | Ukn | Unk | |||||||
| Chili | NO | NO | NO | Unk | |||||||
| Colombia | YES | NO | NO | Unk | |||||||
| Europe | France | NO | NO | NO | NO | ||||||
| Germany | NO | NO | NO | NO | |||||||
| Ireland | YES | NO | NO | YES | |||||||
| Italy | NO | NO | NO | YES | |||||||
| Netherlands | NO | NO | NO | NO | |||||||
| Spain | NO | NO | NO | NO | |||||||
| UK | YES | YES | YES | YES | |||||||
| Asia | Australia | Y/N | YES | YES | YES | ||||||
| China | Y/N | NO | NO | NO | |||||||
| Japan | Y/N | YES | YES | NO | |||||||
| Hong Kong | NO | NO | NO | NO | |||||||
| Korea | YES | NO | NO | YES | |||||||
| Indonesia | YES | NO | NO | NO | |||||||
| Loas | Y/N | NO | NO | NO | |||||||
| New Zealand | YES | YES | YES | YES | |||||||
| Singapore | YES | NO | NO | NO | |||||||
| Thailand | Y/N | NO | NO | NO | |||||||
| Vietnam | Y/N | NO | NO | NO | |||||||
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| Middle East | Dubai | YES | NO | NO | NO | ||||||
| Lebanon | NO | NO | NO | NO | |||||||
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Has anyone been turned away or have any experience traveling to France, Bulgaria, Ukraine, Estonia? Just in general I’d like to hear from anyone who has traveled to Europe or the east European countries about their experiences. Thanks for sharing! Trying to plan trips in hopes to find a place for a second start for my family.
Been to france twice this year,march & September.Also Spain,Portugal, and Belgium.No issues getting in.No questions or delays.Was stopped coming back into U.S. twice.In JFK,NYC and Miami airport.Just told to wait in a room for about 10 minutes then let go. I have the stamp on page 27 but noone bothers to notice it says see page 27 on passport page near bottom.probably agents don’t bother looking all over the page. Planning to retire early in 2022 and live in Europe and travel in & out of Schengen area if it’s still the same.
Most of Europe is OK. They are not big fans of the US and could care less about the notifications.
The public registry type thing has been declared illegal in a couple of countries in the EU if I recall correctly. I believe Germany is one in Spain maybe the other. Lifetime registration was declared illegal under the EU treaties in the UK a couple years back. But, that was before Brexit. The UK didn’t started excluding people until the United States government started sending out their little notices. The first time I know that that happened to me was in November 2013 because I got dragged into a back office in Brussels and had all of my stuff searched. For the person from Texas, remember that you were on state courts and said you can’t extend some of the stuff beyond the federal mandate so if you’re a 25 year offender under the federal system, you should be able to petition to at least get off the federal registry after 25 years. My understanding is that’s 25 years from conviction, not end of sanctions. The only question is will the feds have to go buy their own rules or will they just say that your state requires everyone to register for life so you were a lifetime registrant?
No country in the world other than the US has ever established a public registry.
Germany (which has never had a sex offender registry) argues that the UK’s police-only sex offender registry is a violation of some European human rights agreements.
Hi Mario , did you already retire in Europe now? how was it?
Hi Mario , did you successfully retired in Europe now?
I had a question. If my passport doesn’t have the stamp on it and I am flying from a country outside of the U. S. To another country will the know about my offense. What do they see when they scan my passport if I don’t have a stamp on it?
Does anyone know about and RSO going to Jordan? I see that Israel is ok as we want to go a Holy Land Tour, Just wondering if anyone has experience with Jordan or even Dubai UAE?
Has anyone travel to Hong Kong lately with the identification mark on their passport on the back page
Don’t withhold your passport from your registration office. In Florida, it’s the law!
It’s OK if the passport is not specially marked— whether it is or not is outside Florida’s jurisdiction and not your problem.
OK for passport not to be marked. But registration office must see the passport.