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Monday, July 14, 2025

US Embassy: Travel advisory only updated for COVID, not safety and security

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1008 days ago
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Image courtesy US Embassy.

Image courtesy US Embassy.

US EMBASSY

In re­sponse to the lat­est vi­ral mes­sage on so­cial me­dia with re­gards to a trav­el ad­vi­so­ry is­sued by the US De­part­ment of State, the US Em­bassy in T&T has sought to clear the air with re­spect to the se­cu­ri­ty and safe­ty as­pect.

In a re­lease is­sued on Sun­day, the Em­bassy said: “The US Trav­el Ad­vi­so­ry for Trinidad and To­ba­go was up­dat­ed on Oc­to­ber 5 due to a change in health re­stric­tions for COVID-19. The se­cu­ri­ty and safe­ty as­pects of the ad­vi­so­ry did not change.”

It added that “Trav­el Ad­vi­sories do not tar­get spe­cif­ic coun­tries. Each coun­try is as­signed an over­all Trav­el Ad­vi­so­ry Lev­el from 1 to 4. The De­part­ment’s Trav­el Ad­vi­so­ry lev­els are based on es­tab­lished risk in­di­ca­tors such as health, crime, ter­ror­ism, kid­nap­ping or hostage tak­ing, civ­il un­rest, nat­ur­al dis­as­ters, and oth­er po­ten­tial risks. Each coun­try’s lev­el is based on an as­sess­ment of do­mes­tic con­di­tions that might af­fect the wel­fare or safe­ty of US cit­i­zens.”

“Ad­vi­sories are up­dat­ed when a change in any part of the ad­vi­so­ry oc­curs. They are al­so up­dat­ed when the ad­vi­so­ry is low­ered,” it added.

The em­bassy as­sured that the De­part­ment of State “has no greater re­spon­si­bil­i­ty than the safe­ty and se­cu­ri­ty of US cit­i­zens over­seas. We are com­mit­ted to pro­vid­ing US cit­i­zens with the most up-to-date, fact-based, ac­cu­rate, and trans­par­ent in­for­ma­tion to keep US cit­i­zens in­formed when they are abroad.”


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