American Registrant Denied Entry into Philippines
The Philippines Bureau of Immigration announced that an American national previously convicted of rape was barred entry into the country. The 61 year old man was detained upon arrival at Naia airport on May 2 upon his arrival aboard a Philippine Airlines flight from Los Angeles, California. He was returned to the US on the next flight.
He was issued an exclusion order upon seeing his record in our centralized database,” said Port Operations Division chief Grifton Medina. “His name was immediately included in the bureau’s blacklist of undesirable aliens.”
A search of this individual revealed his offense date was 2001 against an adult and he had a couple of failure to register violations since.
I have said this before most countries will tell you ahead of time if they will allow you or not. Some take it on a case by case basis, Some just plain out say NO.
best way to find out is to e-mail the embassy of that country about a month before you make the plans and explain your situation and the majority of them respond quickly.
I don’t know of a lot of Asian countries besides Hong Kong that allow RSO’S
all your doing is opening Pandoras Box they will contact the us embassy and other legal entity’s and if your not blacklist and on the registry you just hung yourself and added problems on top of more problems
I have never heard of anyone blacklisted because they contacted the embassy prior to travel.
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I know a registered person who failed to listen to me
he emailed the Phils embassy, they never got back to him,
he scheduled flight from SFO to phils
In SFO refused to allow him to board and Phils Airline handed him the blacklist order
so as far as that goes emailing an Embassy and asking questions and admitting he was a RSO, ended his chances of ever getting back in Just sayin open pandoras box
I’ve been to Vietnam and Taiwan since my RSO, but I’m not on Megan’s List since my offense didn’t involve children. From what I understand I may not be impacted by Asian country travel.
Though I am still not allowed to go to countries that share the database like Canada, MX, UK, etc.
This is why I shredded my passport when this started getting bad. I always traveled with family so I was not going somewhere to be naughty.
Now it doesn’t matter because I cannot afford the gas to get to the airport , no less travel somewhere.
Why shouldn’t we have the right to travel like any one else. This 61 year old man’s crime was years ago, he went to court and did what was suppose to be done. How can say what happens to a sex offender is not punishment, every step of his life is punishment, something needs to be done. When will it end?
The U.S. say’s they aren’t stopping you from traveling just informing your destination country about your past criminal history no matter how long in the past it was. They say it’s not their fault you can’t get in but they fail to mention they do have incentives in place for countries that refuse registrants access like the Philippines.
I have a question. If you are not on a states RSO list, does the government still notify immigration of the country your visiting of your past crime? My wife and I was traveling to Costa Rico and they sent us back on the next plane. Officials treated us both like we had a cash of drugs on us. What a croc!
Yes. The Federal Govt. has its own list, of which you found out the hard way. In fact, your State’s list is only there because of Federal Grant money.
I think that is completely separate from the registry. That was an International agreement between countries to share information. Also, believe it or not, on this matter, it is not just sex offenders. Some countries like the U.K and Canada ban almost all felons with some exceptions.
I know when I use to travel in Europe, you could go all over Europe without a passport, it was just getting through airports customs that was the hassle. After it got even worse, I shredded my passport.
If you are on the Angel Watch list(minor victim), you will still be reported as arriving. That is a federal list, having nothing to do with state lists.
I never understood why other counties like Philippines and Mexico who don’t have registries still deny us entrance. If they think we’re all such monsters then they’d have registries of their own. The only reason they don’t let us in is because the “land of the free” tells them not to.