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: [email protected]
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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Anyone been turned away in Nicaragua?
I am about to apply for a passport so I don’t know what will appear as a stamp. But, with that said…. I met someone and I am very curious about traveling to Nicaragua and permanently reside. I understand that there are no laws restricting travel but is there any problems, perhaps, to moving there. My charge is from FL 25 yrs ago (1994) and I am now in SC where I am listed as lvl 2… if anyone has had problems, is there a way on how I can travel into Nicaragua where I can eventually enter and remain? I understand that airports are more restrictive but if they turn around RSO there, what about ground transportation? I plan on traveling before July 2020. Please update me.
Thank you for this valuable resource. Do you have any information about tours in the Holy Land. Israel/Jordan?
I was refused entry into Thailand on September 12, 2017 I traveled their to meet my fiancé & marry her in Thai tradition. When I arrived at Schwannaphim airport Thai Immigration were waiting for me as I was as departing the plane I asked Thai Immigration what was the problem they simple said “I was blacklisted!”
I have never been to Thailand & never broke any llama in that county why am I being refused to marry my fiancé in Thailand I want to live there with her someday
Adrian – contact http://registranttag.org/
Has anyone been to Denmark/Norway/Sweden lately? Considering a trip that would start in Denmark and then go to Norway.
Does any know about the US Virgin Islands? I see Registrant TAG website it says they abide by registration requirements. Does that mean we have to register there?
The US Virgins Islands are part of the US and subject to the Federal requirements to have a registry just like all US territories. Remember that the Feds and locals recently clamped down in Puerto Rico.
USVI is ok. For St John and St Thomas you register on St Thomas. For St Croix, register on St Croix. My experience was they are all decent folks. St Croix checked to be sure I had my paperwork when I left the island. St Thomas seemed not to care. Be sure to register. If you don’t they nAil you leaving. Not arriving. Good folks so be nice and go the distance to respect them and their laws
I want to go to saint Croix. what did you mean when you said you had your paper work. where do you go to register and is there a number of days that you were staying that you would not have to register
St Croix registers SO’s on St Croix. They were located ina warehouse looking building so they may be hard to find. They were great. Check in with them and check out with them. CBI asked for my paperwork when I was leaving. If you do not register, they will get you when you leave. Had a good time and the people were incredibly friendly.
You can go to any territory of the united states but you will have to register according to their rules as a visitor.
There is no place where we can move within the USA and no longer have to register. The best we can do is move to States that give us the least amount of grief. Having to register once a year is better than twice or four times a year. not having any residency restrictions is even better.
I live in Georgia and have to register once a year and I have 0 problems.
Registration officers have a sense of knowing who they are going to have problems with and who they don’t need to worry about.
Yes, I have inquired personally for my husband and was told over the phone that we would immediately have to report to authorities once arriving in the Virgin Islands.
I am trying to find out about the new passport regulations. Is it in affect now and what is it? My passport is good for another 4 years. Is it true that instead of a 10 yrs passport we only get one year?
Can I say that being an RSO in Florida now for 21 years sucks. Lifetime on the registry, oh wait after 25yrs off probation you can ask to be taken off which is crap. This is the third time I am trying to get my civil right restored. But I digress.
I have contacted the FDLE to see what the new requirements for the passport and they couldnt tell me. If they dont know how are we supposed to know. They guy gave me the number to the SMART office in DC which I have called and left at least a half a dozen messages. I finally got an email address I could email my questions to which I did on 17AUG17 and have not gotten a response. Probably wont since I am an RSO. I am trying to go out the the country for Thanksgiving week to what I have to so that I am not harassed to much.
Does anyone know about Colombia? It says they turn someone away?
Hi Dane ,
I am an entrepreneur who used to live abroad in a Colombia and Panama for about 6 months at a time and I am no longer welcomed on either of them . Colombia didn’t allow me on January 2013 based on Articles 72 and 73 of Decree 4000 of 2004 . As of now I am just waiting to save more money and hire a lawyer who can help me get a pardon and take me off the registration requirements . I have been a sex offender since 2003 and still get treated unfairly at all times when my status get known .
This is to Diane and Edward:
Diane, no one knows because the law was passed when signed by that enemy of the constitution Obama. The details are yet to be worked out. I suggest you do what I recently did and simply renew your passport. You will receive one for the full 10 years with no visible mark. I recommend you do this before they get their shit together and start marking them.
Edward, a lawyer cannot assist you in getting a pardon from the governor. It simply will not happen so do not give any money to any lawyer who tells you otherwise as they just want your money and you will get nothing in return.
Now to BOTH OF YOU: The passport situation is not the issue or the reason you are not allowed into Colombia or Panama…it is Interpol and the green notice that the USA sends when someone in the system – in our case someone labelled as a SEX OFFENDER travels internationally.
The green notice alerts them and flags your passport with their immigration. The next part is secret as we have not been able to get any actual documentation of it however, I experience the same thing that others did which is this. You are stopped at immigration…they will look confused and then tell you to wait while they get a superior. They will escort you to a secure area and then tell you that you will NOT be allowed to enter the country and that they USA has requested your return to the USA. You can argue and even ask for a copy of this request but you will be wasting your time and you will NOT be given a copy of any paperwork stating that request.
The mark of the passport is really just overkill as it is not needed. The Interpol notice has effectively blocked our travel to most countries so we can only imagine it will get worse once they finally do decide how the marking of the passports will occur.
Perhaps they will simply revoke them and not allow us to travel ever again as Australia has recently do to their sex offenders! Either way the future of travel looks bleak at best.
Thank you Lee. I knew about the notice and I planned on contacting the consulate of whatever country to see what their reactions would be. I was trying to get my duck in a row first. The idea of getting a new passport is a good one.
Thank you,
Dane
PS Diane was my moms name and she passed 7 years ago.
This is exactly what happened to me as i was trying to enter Peru. Does anyone know if there’s ways around this, to get special permission from that country to enter? Who, or what agency to contact?
Colombia’s law enforcement is very integrated into the law enforcement system of the United States. They share databases with each other and you will NOT get in being a registered sex offender.
You will be denied entry and returned to the USA where they will claim they had nothing to do with it and that was all Colombia’s choice (bullshit) so don’t even bother.
Has anyone been removed from the Florida registry? I would figure that the first people eligible to be removed after 25 years (from end of sanctions) are just starting to become eligible as most people convicted after 97 would have drawn at least a few years of probation. The only people that I can think of who might have already been eligible to apply are those who were convicted of misdemeanor CP possession before it was made a 3rd degree felony and I don’t remember when that happened. Maybe at the same time that they put everyone on the registry in 97?
You can move to Georgia and petition for removal.
Only register once a year if your charge was before 2005 and not have to pay an annual registration fee.
I lived in SC from 2003 after being released and by the time I bought my second home in Ga, I was registering 4 times a year there and paying 150.00 per year. I am sure that in time they will keep on raising that fee.
I was never mistreated by law enforcement in SC I must say, and Georgia is even better. I help other offenders out there who are interested in starting a new career in the trucking industry.