Voyager avec un animal — Hawaï (2026)

Pet arriving in Hawaii from an exempt area (HAR §4-29-10: British Isles — Great Britain, Ireland, Isle of Man, Jersey, Guernsey — plus Guam, Australia, New Zealand)

• Quarantaine: HAR §4-29-10 designates the British Isles, Guam, Australia and New Zealand as exempt areas: a dog or cat coming from one of them is exempt from Hawaii's rabies quarantine altogether — no 120-day stay, no 5 Day Or Less programme, no FAVN blood test and no 30-day waiting period. What it needs instead, from HDOA's own "Checklist for Pets Arriving from British Isles, Australia, Guam and New Zealand": (1) the pet must fly on ONE aircraft from the port of origin to Honolulu, with any transfer supervised and certified in writing by the officer in charge; (2) an original official health certificate issued within 14 days of transport by a veterinarian who holds an appointment as an officer of the government of the country of origin — note that is a GOVERNMENT vet, stricter than the accredited vet Hawaii accepts from elsewhere; (3) an affidavit from the owner that the pet was not outside the country of origin for the six months before shipment; (4) an affidavit from the aircraft captain that the pet travelled on one aircraft and was not off-loaded; (5) a container sealed with an official government seal; and (6) a fee of $45.00 plus $14.30 for each additional day until release, instead of the $185-$1,080 range other origins pay. From Guam you also need the signed Guam Affidavit for Export, form IC-5. Every animal is still inspected for external parasites on arrival, and any sign of transmissible disease in the shipment sends the whole shipment to the quarantine station. Hawaii publishes no further breakdown of which jurisdictions "the British Isles" covers beyond that phrase, so this plan applies the exemption to the United Kingdom; if you are travelling from Ireland, the Isle of Man or the Channel Islands, confirm your status with the Animal Quarantine Station (rabiesfree@hawaii.gov) before relying on it. Hawaii's general pre-shipment rules in HAR §4-29-8 — rabies vaccination, the tick treatment and the other dog or cat vaccinations — are shown unchanged here because §4-29-10 exempts these origins from QUARANTINE and does not say it displaces them. Which jurisdictions count as "the British Isles": HAR §4-29-10(a) names the term but §4-29-2 never defines it. We asked the Animal Quarantine Station directly, and on 2026-10-09 they answered: I reached out to my program manager who stated, "Yes, the British Isles includes Great Britain, Republic of Ireland, the Isle of Man, and the Channel Islands (Jersey and Guernsey)." On that basis the exemption is applied to Great Britain, the Republic of Ireland, the Isle of Man, Jersey and Guernsey. Caveat on the strength of this: the AQS officer relayed her program manager's wording by email and did not produce a written Board determination or a published list, which we had asked for. Confirm with the Animal Quarantine Station before relying on it, because this exemption waives both the quarantine and the FAVN blood test.
• Test sérologique antirabique (titrage): No FAVN / OIE-RVA rabies antibody test is required for a pet arriving from an exempt area. The FAVN test exists in HAR §4-29-8.1 to qualify a pet for five-day-or-less quarantine; a pet exempt from quarantine under §4-29-10 has nothing to qualify for, and HDOA's exempt-area checklist does not list it. Read the quarantine note on this plan for the documents that replace it.
• Quarantaine: HAR §4-29-10 designates the British Isles, Guam, Australia and New Zealand as exempt areas: a dog or cat coming from one of them is exempt from Hawaii's rabies quarantine altogether — no 120-day stay, no 5 Day Or Less programme, no FAVN blood test and no 30-day waiting period. What it needs instead, from HDOA's own "Checklist for Pets Arriving from British Isles, Australia, Guam and New Zealand": (1) the pet must fly on ONE aircraft from the port of origin to Honolulu, with any transfer supervised and certified in writing by the officer in charge; (2) an original official health certificate issued within 14 days of transport by a veterinarian who holds an appointment as an officer of the government of the country of origin — note that is a GOVERNMENT vet, stricter than the accredited vet Hawaii accepts from elsewhere; (3) an affidavit from the owner that the pet was not outside the country of origin for the six months before shipment; (4) an affidavit from the aircraft captain that the pet travelled on one aircraft and was not off-loaded; (5) a container sealed with an official government seal; and (6) a fee of $45.00 plus $14.30 for each additional day until release, instead of the $185-$1,080 range other origins pay. From Guam you also need the signed Guam Affidavit for Export, form IC-5. Every animal is still inspected for external parasites on arrival, and any sign of transmissible disease in the shipment sends the whole shipment to the quarantine station. Hawaii publishes no further breakdown of which jurisdictions "the British Isles" covers beyond that phrase, so this plan applies the exemption to the United Kingdom; if you are travelling from Ireland, the Isle of Man or the Channel Islands, confirm your status with the Animal Quarantine Station (rabiesfree@hawaii.gov) before relying on it. Hawaii's general pre-shipment rules in HAR §4-29-8 — rabies vaccination, the tick treatment and the other dog or cat vaccinations — are shown unchanged here because §4-29-10 exempts these origins from QUARANTINE and does not say it displaces them.