UPDATED – RTAG International Travel Matrix
Based on comments and information updated by members, below is the updated travel matrix for Registrant Travel Action Group (RTAG – www.registranttag.org).
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 1.972.638.0651
| REGISTRANT TRAVEL ACTION GROUP TRAVEL MATRIX | |||||
| 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 | |
| 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 | Unk | Unk | |
| Chili | NO | NO | NO | Unk | |
| Colombia | YES | NO | NO | Unk | |
| Europe | France | NO | NO | NO | NO |
| Germany | NO | NO | NO | NO | |
| Ireland | NO | NO | NO | NO | |
| Italy | NO | NO | NO | YES | |
| Netherlands | NO | NO | NO | NO | |
| Spain | NO | NO | NO | NO | |
| Russia | YES | YES | Unk | NO | |
| UK | YES | YES | YES | YES | |
| Australia | Y/N | YES | YES | YES | |
| Asia | Cambodia | YES | YES | NO | NO |
| China | Y/N | NO | NO | NO | |
| Hong Kong | NO | NO | NO | NO | |
| Korea | YES | NO | NO | YES | |
| Laos | Y/N | NO | NO | NO | |
| New Zealand | YES | YES | YES | YES | |
| Philippines | YES | YES | NO | NO | |
| Thailand | Y/N | NO | NO | NO | |
| Vietnam | Y/N | NO | NO | NO | |
| Middle East | |||||
| Dubai | YES | NO | NO | NO | |
| Lebanon | NO | NO | NO | NO | |
| Africa | |||||
| No problems in Africa at this time | |||||
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Candy — what cruise line? Was the problem with the cruise line or Bahamas customs? Secret — you can go to the Bahamas (Grand Bahama Island) without using a password. Only need a certified birth certificate and drivers license on a ferry from Fort Lauderdale called Bahamas Ferry Express. Once you’re there, you can go to other islands within the Bahamas with no problem. I haven’t done this, but their website is very explicit about it. If anyone does accomplish this, please let the group know that it works. This is one of the only nations I have found where a US citizen can visit without a passport.
http://gobahamasplus.com/fast-ferry-info/
Just be careful not to stay in Florida so long before you leave that you have to register there. Read carefully the details on the CRSOL state-by-state US Sex Offender Registration Laws.
I’d still love to hear about any new cruise updates (denied/allowed boarding). From my experience with cruises in the past, you don’t need a password for a closed-loop cruise (leave/return same US destination on a Caribbean itinerary) only certified birth certificate and drivers license, and you can leave the ship in any port with your ship ID and not have to go through customs with a passport. This sounds like a great work-around.
The cruise line was Royal Caribbean, and we live in Florida. We were in the Bahama’s twice in 2014 with no problem, but now were are afraid to even try traveling out of the country again. It is completely humiliating to be pulled out of line, sent to a corner and have all your luggage searched, and electronic devices looked over (mine too!). I can’t believe the US Supreme Court doesn’t believe Megan’s Law is “punishment”. I wish we could re-submit the court case heard by the court in 2003 and see if they still feel the same way about the term “punishment” when it comes to the way RSO’s are treated now. Adam Walsh was left alone in a department store toy department while his mother shopped, and his body was never recovered. Why punish my husband for Mrs. Walsh’s lack of parenting skills, and how did any of the Adam Walsh kidnapping end up applying to registered sex offenders, anyway? We need to stop discrimination of all types, because ALL lives matter!
Hey all. I just got back from the Bahamas via the Balearia Ferry in FT Lauderdale. You can use a birth certificate and driver license, but I didn’t. I brought the wrong doc so had to use my passport. Its actually not a bad experience. Your passport is not scanned at either border. They just check that your passport matches your name on your ticket. They do scan the passport to print your ticket, but I think its to search an internal system. Let me know if you have questions. I’m happy to answer any.
@relaxed, in regards to Bahamas, did you give 21 days notice?
This was a YEAR ago ???? I bet The Bahamas won’t let a RSO in now !!!. If so. we will head that way very soon !!. We have a Boat that has made the trip many many times !!. I also would like to know about the “21 Day Notice” !!??????. Since The Bahamas is “So Close”, Would the 21 Day Notice be required ???. Also would like to know the MAXIMUM days Allowed to “Stay Visiting” in the Bahamas ????????. I used to go every other weekend !! Miss the GREAT fishing and Diving there !!. If anyone can answer these questions with some sort of “GARENTEED” answer, It wouldn’t be AWESOME !!. Anytime I call “FDLE” or any other Law Enforcement department, I never get a answer !!. They just say, That’s not their Area of concern !!!!. I’m not on ANY KIND OF paper, No Restrictions (Except for Flordias BS), And was Adjucation With held at first !! Now it shows me being Convicted !!!?????? . Anyway I’d love to travel to the Bahamas if I can !!!
Bahamas is still ok!!!!!
21 day advance notice of travel to ANY country is REQUIRED!!!!
Not sure what you mean by “G[U]AR[A]NTEED answer”. Would accurate information suffice?
@FAC, is that based on recent data point about Bahamas is still okay? The Matrix has Malaysia okay but I knew someone that got denied to Malaysia because of the 21 days notice. So I reluctantly trust the matrix anymore.
The matrix is managed by Registrant Travel Action Group and can be found here: http://registranttag.org/resources/travel-matrix/ at its original source.
We re-post periodic updates, but we’re not the authority on International Travel for Registrant and, for that reason should really be referring people to RTAG.
Bahamas has been OK and since many it’s so close to Florida, we’ve had many go.
When were they turned away? Were they alone or with their spouse? Any info would be helpful.
FAC moderator: giving you the slow clap for that one. Made me laugh out loud.
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I have a trip paid for to jamaica next june. I am very nervous i will get turned away. Any advice
I am planning a trip to Jamaica in September. Can you please let me know how your went? I am very nervous I will get denied entry
The Bahamas are not OK for RSO’s… I paid for my husband (a first time offender convicted in 1991) and I to take a short cruise last October, but he was denied passage to go by the cruise line. They totally refunded our ticket costs two weeks before the ship set sail, even though their policy stated in writing on our contracts that no refunds would be given that close to sailing. The truth is that although my husband and I went on cruises to Panama, the Bahamas, Bermuda, Jamaica, Costa Rica, Columbia, and Mexico in 2014 with no issues at all (and nothing has changed except we moved to Florida) now he can’t go to those country’s anymore. He a first time offender and a level 3 SO in any other state, his conviction was from 1990, long before any “Megan’s Law”… Why is he now being denied to go on another cruise, or to Disney World? We moved to Florida last year and I didn’t see the ‘RSO’s not welcome’ sign at the border, where was that?? So, welcome to hell and living in the “sunshine state”, now I know why it’s so hot here! If only I had known there were different laws in different states, and can someone explain how that equate to being a ‘federal law’? Florida has denied the right to vote for anyone who has committed any felony (other states allow felons to vote after they’ve completed their sentence). Can someone at the national level please remind Florida about the 15th Amendment to the US Constitution?
Candy – we are organizing a lawsuit for people with convictions pre-97 (before the registry existed).
If you are interested in participating, please contact [email protected]
so is there any relief for pre 97 convictions, mine was 94
thanks
we have a potential case. if you are interested in participating, contact [email protected]
Conviction date or date of crime? Whats the daye these go by
Candy, Welcome to Rick Scott and this Goonies like Ron Book and others of Florida.:-(
I wonder if it is the Bahamas that are denying entry or is it the cruise line that is denying a boarding pass?
sounds like the cruise line
Does anyone know what cruise line? We are planning a cruise in Dec.
Princess cruise line accepts sex offenders
I am just wondering, with some cruise lines, disney , facebook, and few other’s.. they are privately owned and can ” refuse service” to any one, that “anyone ” seems to be registered citizens.. how long before airlines, bus lines, hotels.. etc jump on board ??
The examples you give are actually publicly owned companies. Shares of stock in Disney and Facebook are available to the general public and freely traded on a stock exchange. Many of us cannot participate in companies we own stock in.
If u we’re smart n ur a rso u would move out of Florida. Florida has the severest registration laws out of all other states. This effectively deters other rso from moving to Florida.
No, Alabama has the worst SO laws in the nation. If you had sex with your girlfriend who was underage and her mom complained and you are convicted of Rape 2 (STAT. Rape) you can never even have your own family / children and live in the house with them.
While the study indicated there were no issues at this time in Africa. I am personally aware of a registered citizen from Seminole county Fl that was denied entry in South Africa after years of business travel there due to the change in international notifications
what happened to Nicaragua, it was listed now it is not?
we have tried calling and email, no response
Concerning Africa, does this mean no one has tried to visit Africa? I would still like to see how many reports you have for each country.
We are just republishing RTAG’s Matrix.
You would need to contact RegistrantTAG directly for that info. Information is above.
I’m a RSO in Florida, have traveled to Germany and Italy as of late. I travel to Bermuda (Dutch) every year. I have no Felony record. I’m a registrant. You need to call each state office of tourism incoming as well as make sure your own laws are compliant to your travel plans. I have yet to be informed to change my PASSPORT identifiers.
Bermuda is not Dutch. It is nominally British. From what I have heard, Germany and perhaps Spain have declared SO registries to be violative of national law and the EU convention on human rights. A Uk appeals court declared lifetime registration to be violative of EU treaties. law. Things like the German determination is apparently one thing that has held up the implementation of an EU wide registry. Only like 4 or so countries in the EU have one at this time, UK, Ireland, France and maybe Austria and none are public after the fiasco in the UK a few years back where a couple of regrets were murdered in London after one of the tabloids acquired the list thought some form of public records request and published it. Italy is apparently also not big on such things. The Netherlands does not have a registry, but does not totally purge your records after a time certain if you are a SO.
U contradict urself. U say your a rso but yet ur not a felon? I’m assuming ur offense is a misdeamenor.
it’s possible and common. some had adjudication withheld – they don’t even have a conviction