Mar 22, 2020, 4:26 am
Last edit by: FlyinHawaiian
Comprehensive Overview, With Questions and Answers:
https://www.gohawaii.com/travel-requirements
CURRENT POLICIES
List of Hotels that are currently closed:
https://www.gohawaii.com/special-alerts-information
For interisland travel:
https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/hawaii/2041823-interisland-travel-unrestricted-starting-june-15th.html
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https://www.gohawaii.com/travel-requirements
CURRENT POLICIES
- JULY 8 - Fully vaccinated U.S. travelers flying domestically — including island residents returning home — will be allowed to bypass Hawaii’s quarantine and pre-travel restrictions, as long as they upload their vaccination records to the state’s Safe Travels website and arrive with a hard copy of their vaccinations records. https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/hawaii/2044877-those-fully-vaccinated-anywhere-us-eligible-bypass-quarantine-july-8th-new-post.html
- JUNE 15 - Fully vaccinated travelers who received the vaccine in Hawaii are now exempt from Safe Travels
- JUNE 15 - Regardless of their vaccination status, travelers are allowed to fly between islands without having to take a COVID test or quarantine.
- AFTER JANUARY 3, 2022 The mandatory 5-day quarantine is required for all unvaccinated passengers (visitors and returning residents) arriving into the state of Hawaii.
- Additionally, operations, including peer-to-peer platforms or sharing services, may not rent vehicles to any person who is subject to a 5-day traveler quarantine order unless an exemption is granted.
- Travelers flying into Hawaii are required to register personal information into the Safe Travels application; the information will be used to aid officials in contacting travelers via phone, email, and SMS. It does *not* currently enable GPS-tracking of travelers via their mobile devices.
- Travelers are exempt from the mandatory 5-day quarantine if testing is completed no more than 72 hours before the departure time of the final leg of your flight to Hawai‘i with proof of a negative result.
- The state of Hawai‘i will ONLY accept Nucleic Acid Amplification Test (NAAT) from a certified Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendment (CLIA) lab test results from TRUSTED TESTING AND TRAVEL PARTNERS. A negative COVID-19 test result is required prior to departure to avoid quarantine in Hawai‘i.
- If results are not available by time of arrival, quarantine necessary until test results received.
- All travelers (returning residents and visitors) of all ages subject to pre-test requirement.
- Individuals are responsible for testing costs.
- Travelers (returning residents and visitors) are not able to test upon arrival in Hawaii because this is a pre-travel testing program.
- No commercial COVID-19 NAAT testing will be provided upon arrival at the airport. Travelers without the pre-test will be in quarantine.
- https://hawaiicovid19.com/travel-partners/
List of Hotels that are currently closed:
https://www.gohawaii.com/special-alerts-information
For interisland travel:
https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/hawaii/2041823-interisland-travel-unrestricted-starting-june-15th.html
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State of Hawaii "Safe Travels" Program 5-Day Quarantine (Ends March 25, 2022)
Jun 15, 2020, 5:07 pm
#256
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By the way, that was something stated in the 8th supplementary proclamation. But it is not in the 9th, and I know of someone who has already been rejected for trying to get that exemption (returning resident performing critical infrastructure on the Mainland), notwithstanding the verbiage carried over on the HDOT's website.
Here is the ninth. Go to page 40 for what is considered critical infrastructure workers.
Jun 15, 2020, 6:09 pm
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https://governor.hawaii.gov/wp-conte...ion-signed.pdf
Here is the ninth. Go to page 40 for what is considered critical infrastructure workers.
Here is the ninth. Go to page 40 for what is considered critical infrastructure workers.
In the 8th supplementary proclamation, the Governor specifically stated:
Pursuant to section 127A-13(a)(1), HRS, all persons entering the State of Hawaiʻi shall be subject to mandatory self-quarantine, except those persons entering the State by recreational boats which have been at sea for at least 14 consecutive days before entering State waters and have no persons on board that are ill or are exhibiting symptoms of COVID-19. Those persons performing critical infrastructure functions as identified in Section III.A of this Proclamation will be subject to self-quarantine but may break quarantine to perform their critical infrastructure functions so long as they wear appropriate protective gear and follow the social distancing requirements identified in Section III.D of this Proclamation. The period of self-quarantine shall begin from the time of entry into the State of Hawaiʻi and shall last 14 days or the duration of the person’s presence in the State of Hawaiʻi, whichever is shorter. Persons traveling from the State to perform critical infrastructure functions as identified in Section III.A of this Proclamation should self-quarantine while away from their Hawai‘i residence but may break quarantine to perform their critical infrastructure functions. Upon return to their Hawai‘i residence, such persons will not be subject to the self- quarantine so long as they wear appropriate protective gear and follow the social distancing requirements identified in Section III.D of this Proclamation.
In the 9th supplementary proclamation, the Governor now states:
Pursuant to section 127A-13(a)(1), HRS, all persons entering the State of Hawaiʻi shall be subject to mandatory self-quarantine, except those persons entering the State by recreational boats which have been at sea for at least 14 consecutive days before entering State waters and have no persons on board who are ill or are exhibiting symptoms of COVID-19. The period of self- quarantine shall begin from the time of entry into the State and shall last 14 days or the duration of the person’s presence in the State, whichever is shorter. Persons who require paid or commercial lodging while subject to the mandatory self-quarantine shall designate a hotel or motel as their designated quarantine location.
Those persons entering the State to perform critical infrastructure functions as identified in Section III.A of this Proclamation will be subject to self- quarantine but may break quarantine to perform their critical infrastructure functions so long as they wear appropriate protective gear and follow the safe practices identified in Section III.C of this Proclamation.
Those persons entering the State to perform critical infrastructure functions as identified in Section III.A of this Proclamation will be subject to self- quarantine but may break quarantine to perform their critical infrastructure functions so long as they wear appropriate protective gear and follow the safe practices identified in Section III.C of this Proclamation.
That bolded language in the Eight is no longer in the Ninth, and returning residents performing critical infrastructure duties on the Mainland can no longer can obtain an exemption for this notwithstanding what it says on HDOT's website.
Jun 15, 2020, 6:42 pm
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Just curious: What under what Critical Infrastructure category do you think you qualify? I'm no expert in this area, but if your presence really was critical, you would have been here along time ago.
Jun 16, 2020, 12:57 am
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People will get a yes or no from Hawaii State when they apply for their quarantine exemption via email regardless of what version the proclamation is. The final say so is via the application anyways, such as what your friend found out.
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Jun 16, 2020, 11:51 am
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I didn't miss it, I'm just providing resources for the folks that are asking the questions so they can research abit more.
People will get a yes or no from Hawaii State when they apply for their quarantine exemption via email regardless of what version the proclamation is. The final say so is via the application anyways, such as what your friend found out.
People will get a yes or no from Hawaii State when they apply for their quarantine exemption via email regardless of what version the proclamation is. The final say so is via the application anyways, such as what your friend found out.
This may all be moot, though. That lawsuit challenging the Governor's proclamations is now getting wider local media attention, having been reported in the Star Advertiser: https://www.staradvertiser.com/2020/...rgency-powers/
Hearing on the preliminary injunction motion filed in that lawsuit is set before Judge Watson on June 26 at 10:30 a.m. I doubt J. Watson will rule from the bench on this one, so maybe we will see a decision in mid-July.
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Jun 16, 2020, 12:00 pm
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I'm not discouraging anyone from applying for an exemption, but I also don't think we should be going around giving people false hope or providing misinformation (as the HDOT website is doing). There are no grounds for an exemption for returning residents traveling to the Mainland to perform critical infrastructure functions as the Ninth supplementary proclamation controls and supersedes all prior proclamations. I am hearing from now multiple sources that the COVID exemptions folks are rejecting requests for exemptions on this basis, so if anyone is able to get one, please let me know, as I would love for these folks to contest their denials.
This may all be moot, though. That lawsuit challenging the Governor's proclamations is now getting wider local media attention, having been reported in the Star Advertiser: https://www.staradvertiser.com/2020/...rgency-powers/
Hearing on the preliminary injunction motion filed in that lawsuit is set before Judge Watson on June 26 at 10:30 a.m. I doubt J. Watson will rule from the bench on this one, so maybe we will see a decision in mid-July.
This may all be moot, though. That lawsuit challenging the Governor's proclamations is now getting wider local media attention, having been reported in the Star Advertiser: https://www.staradvertiser.com/2020/...rgency-powers/
Hearing on the preliminary injunction motion filed in that lawsuit is set before Judge Watson on June 26 at 10:30 a.m. I doubt J. Watson will rule from the bench on this one, so maybe we will see a decision in mid-July.
Jun 16, 2020, 12:17 pm
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Jun 16, 2020, 10:31 pm
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Jun 17, 2020, 12:10 am
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Jun 17, 2020, 1:26 am
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Nobody is leaving and coming back infected as far as I know, the very few cases in the past few days have been from crowded families. Doctors are trying to save lives. Short of Hawaii cutting off all ties and no longer a state I don’t know how or why Hawaii residents think they are special, me included. I’m a United States citizen, and I care for everyone in every state. Like any person, doctors need an income and go where the work is.
Jun 17, 2020, 10:06 am
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Health care industry and agriculture. But again, working now in the continental US but my Hawaii operation is suffering horribly. Empty office for 4 months (correction now 5), the rent alone is now staggering. The other issue is my wife usually accompanies me as she can work out of Hawaii and has family there for years. However, as I mentioned from the look of the application she will not qualify so we are AGAIN pushing things back to Aug 1.
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Jun 17, 2020, 10:47 am
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Nobody is leaving and coming back infected as far as I know, the very few cases in the past few days have been from crowded families. Doctors are trying to save lives. Short of Hawaii cutting off all ties and no longer a state I don’t know how or why Hawaii residents think they are special, me included. I’m a United States citizen, and I care for everyone in every state. Like any person, doctors need an income and go where the work is.
Jun 17, 2020, 12:01 pm
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https://hidot.hawaii.gov/coronavirus/
There is a subsection for exempt critical infrastructure workers going out of state and coming back.
There is a subsection for exempt critical infrastructure workers going out of state and coming back.
Jun 17, 2020, 1:22 pm
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Well so much for that, I suspect they were getting flooded with exemption requests. I somehow doubt my request will be "grandfathered" and quite honestly at this point I don't even care anymore.
Jun 17, 2020, 4:02 pm
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