Pets on board – Avianca Oficial

If you might want to journey to the United States along with your canine, you need to meet sure necessities established by the United States Department of Transportation (DOT) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Below you can find necessary data; nevertheless, we suggest consulting the official web sites of those entities to keep away from any points when touring along with your canine.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) introduced that as of August 1, 2024, all passengers coming into the United States accompanied by their canine should meet sure necessities. These necessities are along with these already established for canine touring as emotional support or service animals. The necessities are:

  
Be at the very least six months of age.
  
Have a microchip suitable with the International Organization for Standardization (ISO).
  
Dog well being certificates, which should be verified by way of the CDC dog import form. This kind should be accomplished on-line, 2 to 10 days earlier than the arrival date.

Check the additional documentation, which varies based on the canine rabies threat degree of the nation the place the canine was within the six months previous to coming into the United States (together with transit international locations), or the place the rabies vaccine was administered.

Additional necessities in case you are touring from a rustic categorized as excessive threat for canine rabies

The CDC has established further necessities for canine coming from high-risk canine rabies countries (Colombia, El Salvador, Peru, Brazil, Dominican Republic, Honduras, Guatemala, Ecuador, amongst others), or which were in any of those international locations within the final 6 months and haven’t been vaccinated within the United States. In these circumstances, the next paperwork should be offered:

  
Rabies vaccine and microchip certificates. This kind should be accomplished by a veterinarian and endorsed by an official authorities veterinarian of the nation of origin, not more than 30 days earlier than the journey.
  
Valid rabies serology titer. If you wouldn't have one, a 28-day quarantine reservation should be offered at one of many animal care facilities registered by the CDC. To keep away from this quarantine interval, it's endorsed to hold out the rabies serological check, offered by a CDC-approved laboratory. For circumstances in Colombia, El Salvador, Peru and Ecuador, which wouldn't have an permitted laboratory, it's doable to go to a veterinary heart for pattern assortment and worldwide transport to one of many authorized laboratories.

Please notice: in case you are touring from a rustic categorized as excessive threat for canine rabies, even if in case you have solely transited by way of any of the locations we function, you might solely enter the United States by way of Los Angeles, Miami, New York and Washington, cities which have a CDC-authorized port health station. If your itinerary contains one other vacation spot within the United States that doesn’t have a port well being station, the canine’s entry won’t be permitted.

If your canine has a rabies vaccination certificates issued within the United States, it could enter by way of any approved port of entry, so long as the entry level matches the one indicated on the CDC Dog Import Form. Learn extra on the official page.

Please notice in case you are touring with service canine:

In addition to assembly the above necessities, you need to current on the airport check-in counters or boarding gates the next varieties with dates after your flight reserving, as relevant: U.S. Department of Transportation Service Animal Air Transportation Form and United States Department of Transportation Service Animal Relief Attestation Form as acceptance necessities.