Haiti Travel Guide

Haiti's paperwork is almost beside the point right now. US citizens technically need no visa for tourist or business travel, just a valid passport, and other nationalities generally need a tourist visa, but the practical question for 2026 is not the visa, it is whether traveling to Haiti at all is something to consider. The US Federal Aviation Administration has prohibited American air carrier flights to Port-au-Prince over ongoing instability, and the US State Department's advisory sits at Level 4, Do Not Travel, its highest level.

Armed gangs are reported to control approximately 90 percent of Port-au-Prince, and travelers have been targeted, followed, and violently attacked and robbed shortly after leaving the international airport there, a specific and repeated pattern noted in security reporting, not a generalized warning. Kidnapping is a real and ongoing risk, with ransom demands reported reaching into the tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars, and some Haitian gangs are formally designated as terrorist organizations by the US State Department.