We have updated our main International Travel section. It features:
- List of Schengen Nations (allowing entry to registrants);
- Resources (including a CA DOJ Travel Notification Form); and
- User Submitted Travel Reports.
This post is linked from the Main Menu at the top of the site.
1. The 26 Schengen Nations (which allow registrants to visit)
As an agreement, Schengen was signed among the five out of ten countries of the European Union members back then, on the 14th June 1985. Under the Schengen agreement, travelling from one Schengen country to another is done without any passport and immigration controls or any other formalities previously required.
Austria
Belgium
Czech republic
Denmark
Estonia
Finland
France
Germany
Greece
Hungary
Iceland
Italy
Latvia
Liechtenstein
Lithuania
Luxembourg
Malta
Netherlands
Norway
Poland
Portugal
Slovakia
Slovenia
Spain
Sweden
Switzerland
Note: US Citizens are visa exempt when visiting the Schengen area for up to 90 days in a 180 day period (List of Countries, Section B or map). The European Commission is proposing creating a European Travel Information and Authorisation System (ETIAS) for such travelers, beginning in 2021 – which may or may not take criminal convictions into account. ETIAS Fact Sheet April 2018 – July 2018
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2. Resources
Forms
Publications
- RTAG Travel Matrix
- IML Dispatch (SMART Office, Feb 2016)
- ETIAS
Old Posts
- International Travel after IML (2016)
- International Travel – Mexico (2014)
- International Travel (2013)
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This MIL thing should of not got this far. This needs to go back court and put a stop to it.
Thank you for sharing this valuable information. It’s too bad that I might never see the motherlands of my ancestor’s, but glad that I can visit those nations I’m most interested in seeing. According to the post, however, I’d better do it quickly!
“The European Commission is proposing creating a European Travel Information and Authorisation System (ETIAS) for such travelers, beginning in 2021 – which may or may not take criminal convictions into account.”
Rename IML to “Operation Karma”
I am planning to travel international while im on the registry and probation in Texas… If get a round trip ticket to Europe which allows entry, then get a separate plane ticket to a country that has a risk of turning people away like Thailand. Do I still have to report SORNA all my travel details?
I want to know if I am breaking “SORNA” rules if I am already in a foreign country (21 day in advanced) and I decided to travel to different countries in between.
What would be really helpful is listing all the Notifications systems that the agency uses such as Interpol that is accessible to UK, Europe, Africa unions.
Once you are in the system, then they already know and can turn you away because of SORNA/DHS/ICE…
No one here has any business trying to subvert the reporting requirements for travel by routing through other countries. This is not the 1970s; everyone knows everything. Even Jetblue and American Airlines know I am on the List. Interpol keeps their own records and they know who we are. Maybe you’ll get away with it and enter and have a super time. But CBP is going to have some awfully serious questions about that Thai entry and exit stamp in your passport. Then they are going to call ICE investigators to come down and they will be the ones to take you down to see the US magistrate to book you into US Marshals custody. I’m not saying this to be mean. I just don’t want the Nazis to get their claws into any of us again. Do everything in good faith and even if they try to hang you on some trivial paperwork disagreement, the US Attorney’s Office is not going to want to try to convince a federal judge that you were trying to do anything malicious when you obviously reported everything in good faith. The government is chomping at the bit to screw us all over again and again, so don’t give them the ammo to do it.
@ Relief, @ Notorious DIK and @ America’s Most Hated: Last September, I was met by the French police when my plane landed in Paris. I wrote to Interpol to request any documentation they had about me that might explain why this occurred. In my letter to Interpol, I specifically noted the information about me may have been sent as a “green notice” from Angel Watch, U.S.Dept. of Homeland Security or U.S. Dept. of State. Interpol wrote me back stating that I did not appear in any of their records or documentation. They suggested I contact French National Police.
If you think Interpol has something to do with any travel-related thing that happens to you, I suggest that you contact Interpol and ask.
My reading of the SORNA guidelines call for us to provide 21 day’s notice including “expected itinerary.”
That doesn’t read like they’re asking for a detailed itinerary or that it be followed 100%, just that it is the “expected itinerary.” When I have provided the notification in Wisconsin, I was told that only a basic outline of where I’m going and how I’m getting there was required, not a day-by-day accounting.
The IML says that we are to provide an itinerary and other information as detailed by the Attorney General, but I have no idea where to find any procedure published by the AG which detailed the rules for complying with IML.
Go figure??? They pass a law requiring us to do something, and then they don’t make the details available regarding when/where/how to do so.
Has anyone actually been arrested and prosecuted and convicted for violating the IML in one of these insignificant ways — making a side trip to a country not included on the submitted itinerary, for example?
I see our main hurdle in getting to where we want to be is that we are attempting to do it legally. I would offer the following:
going to the dark web, purchasing a passport, and cross the country of choice at a less patrolled border area.
Millions do this every year without any I.D. and live out their lives comfortably. There are people out there willing to help us, for not that much money. I would post some of my results, but that could compromise my goals. Trust me when I say that there is a path. I only recommend this for those out there that have nothing to lose and no attatchments. Prepare yourself. Learn the language of your chosen location, learn customs. Learn a more low profile trade that will benefit local employers. If my neighbor can rent a home, have a business, and raise a family without ever having legal status, I think it can be done in other countries that, once you’re in, could care less.
These laws CAN and WILL be challenged in court. It is only a matter of time. It was a ruled that the 2012 changes to the laws made the whole scheme Punitive. Also, a recent ruling stated that someone on the registry is in custody.
So how can the government impede travel with their Punitive law without, at Minimum, Due Process given to each person??
You CANNOT force people to register travel unless you can PROVE that doing so would be in the best interest of the public to SUCH an extent that it tramples the person’s civil rights.
Seems like a straight-forward argument and there is enough precedent to take on the challenge.
RTAG has collected dozens of reports of “free citizens” who have suffered damages due to laws that keep them in custody.
This is just like the fights of other groups in this country in the last 100 years. The ‘Great’ country of the USA has a long history of hatred against just about any group of people that can be segregated. I can assure you many foreigners would never have moved here if they knew the level of corruption going on in this country. The atrocities are happening in plain sight under the mask of “legality”.
What is the difference between IML and probation/parole reporting requirements? Parole and probation is considered punishment.
Hi,
Ok, to the guy anonymouse, so tell me this. I do not register at I currently live in the Midwest. The state where I currently lived once, has put me back on the registry. They did that within in the last 4 years. I have not had to register in 13 years. Now the big question Do I give a 21-day advance notice? Well the state where I live said we do not follow the federal SORNA. So, therefore, we do not require that and do not notify the U.S. Marshal’s office. Now I spoke to Janice and Paul R. about this issue and they explained, in that case, you would not have to tell anyone. Now one comment was made to fill out the California 21 day advance and tweak it maybe with your state information on it. However, I have not left at all due to this very issue. No one can really give me a better answer and in addition, I contacted the CBP since I live on the border of Canada. I actually went up to there office told them my story and. There answered was well we would still pull in secondary, but more likely would let you go after the interview (interrogation) nothing we could do. I have a letter from my current state says you do not have to register. Maybe that is good enough. Who Knows!
@Kari . I am in the exact same situation as you, leaving Texas. Have you crossed to Canada? Did they stop you?
@ Will Allen: That’s because “sex!!!” is so titalating 🤩, but murder is rather drab and passé. 😩😵
Hi texasex,
No I went in to Canada several times before Texas put me back on the registry I left Texas in 2005 Texas transferred me to the Midwest. I was off the registry from 2005 to 2014. During that time yes, I traveled in to Canada several times until Texas. Texas put me back on in 2015. However, I do not have an obligation to register or send Texas any updated information at all.
I’m taking a trip to Europe next month for a month with my wife and sent in my 21 day notice for International travel to my reporting agency. Officer calls me and says I need to come in and de-register couple days before travel. When I return, make sure to register again. Is this legit? I travel international maybe 2 times a year and this never came up before. I live in Orange County in California.
De register? As the law notes, you give them 21 day notice. That’s it. Unless your moving, no! Telll whomever your talking to that they are retarded! It takes me (I live in the OC) 30 – 40 mins (depending upon traffic) to get to the location where you register. Then, it takes 1-1.5 hours to register? In summary, it’s at least a 2.5-3 hour ordeal each time? In LB, your in and out in 30 mins or less? The people in OC are techs. So, I suggest they get with the program
Does anyone have the contact info for a civil rights attorney? My state is not letting me travel. I have already bought my plane tickets and my hotels and I am about to lose thousands of dollars yet again to these tyrants and I am done. I am suing the state and the US if anyone will take the case. The lawyers on this site won’t help. Anyone know any civil rights lawyers?
I would encourage everyone having a interest in this topic be on the conference call being held Saturday, April 20 at 10 am Pacific Time. It will include information about the domestic and overseas travel.
https://all4consolaws.org/2019/04/acsol-phone-meeting-on-april-20/
this is just an up date on my travel to mexico after I deregister from my state (tx) and no longer on the web site I travel 3 weeks ago to Mexico and there were no problems I was once sent back from mexico back in 2015 also between 2015 and 2019 I was able to get a Mexican passport do to the fact that I was born in Mexico and the way I leave the country is by showing my USA passaport and to enter mexico i show my Mexican passport coming back to the state I leave mexico with my Mexican passport and enter USA with us passport this is most easy and hassle free trip ever some of you might want to know why I use my mexican Passport only reason it has more (benefits) **** this is just information**
I am in Spain! They didn’t even scan my passport. He said “Hola”, took his stamper thing and banged me right in. I haven’t even left the airport and I already love this place!
I did 6 year probation and then 10 more years registering (thank God I finish )
Romania is not on the Shenzen list above, but they are a Shenzen country and on the travel matrix with all “NO’s”
We just returned from 10 days in Europe with no significant issues.
We flew into Munich, Germany. When we got to the customs person, I handed him both our passports. He scanned my passport, and then stared at the screen for what seemed to be a long time. Then he sat my passport aside. I’m thinking, “oh boy – here we go”. He scanned my wife’s passport, then immediately turned it to a blank page and stamped it. Then he turned to another agent and spoke to him for a few moments. After that, he reached over and picked up my passport, opened it to a blank page, and stamped it. He handed me back both passports and said “have a good visit”. He did not look in the back of my passport for my “branded” page.
We then boarded a plane and flew to Naples, Italy. We subsequently visited Sicily, Malta, Spain, and France by ship. Our passports were never asked for nor looked at by any government person after we left Munich, until we were about to fly out of Munich back to LAX. Of course, our passports were looked at (but not scanned) when we stayed in hotels in Naples & Munich, and when we boarded the ship. I did have my “branded” page tucked into the passport cover, but no one ever tried to look for it.
My conclusion: There must be something to see on the computer when one of our passports are scanned, but the special “branded” page is not an issue in Europe, at least for now.
Returning to LAX was the usual hassle, but there was a little different twist this time. When I presented our passports with the slips of paper from the automated kiosk (mine with the X across it) to the person at the customs desk, she scanned my passport, and set it aside. Then she scanned my wife’s, and told her she could leave. After my wife walked a little ways away, the clerk said “Do you have your registration paperwork?”. I thought she meant my copy of my 21-day notice, which we had unfortunately forgotten to bring. So I said, “no, I left everything at home.” So she said, “that is too bad; if you had your card with you, I could clear you right here”. So I said “card? what card is that?”. She said “the card they give you when you register”, and she held her hands up to indicate about a 3″ x 5″ card. I said, “where I register, they don’t give me any kind of card”. So she said, “well, you’ll have to stand over there and wait for an officer to take you to Secondary”. Now, when I first registered about 25 years ago, they would give us this little wallet sized card that they said we were legally required to have with us at all times, and to show it to any law enforcement person we should encounter, but I think that went away over 20 years ago, so I have no idea what this agent was talking about.
Observation: I was still never asked anything about the 21-day notice required by IML. Also, the customs agent never checked the back of my passport for the “branded mark”.
Re: Recent discussions about last minute itinerary changes: Based on a copy of our airline flight itinerary (which turned out not to be the most recent one), I booked a hotel for our long layover (16 hours) in Munich. When I printed our boarding passes the night before we left, I was surprised to notice that our layover was actually 1 hour and 45 minutes, which also meant that we arrived in Naples a day early. It was too late to get a refund for our Munich hotel, but I had to book a hotel in Naples for that night. Of course, my 21-day itinerary listed the name and address of the hotel in Munich and obviously had no info on the Naples hotel. If someone were really monitoring the 21-day notices, I suppose they could have given me a hard time, but it was not intentional.
Mike G ~ Thanks for the update, even though, it would have been nice if you could just walk through customs back in your “home” country without having to go through any secondary, just like any other “free” American. As for the travel itinerary, how can that ever be enforced? Plans change all the time, and there just isn’t time to notify anyone 21 days prior. You get to your destination and may have planned to stay in a certain hotel to do a hike the next day. Then, the weather changed, and the hike is out of the question, so you go to Plan B that has not been “cleared” with the authorities. What a bunch of nonsense. Anybody who is off paper should be able to travel freely, any time and anywhere. Welcome “home”.