- Travel Advice
DFAT advice for Guam
When travelling to Guam, you should always get travel insurance in case the worst happens. To help you ensure you travel safely, we have included the travel advice from the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade for Guam.
| Guam overall | This Advice is current for Sunday, 21 March 2010. | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Be alert to own security | Exercise caution | High degree of caution | Reconsider your need to travel | Do not travel |
This advice has been reviewed and reissued. The overall level of the advice has not changed.
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Summary
- We advise you to be alert to your own security in Guam.
- Exercise common sense and look out for suspicious behaviour, as you would in Australia.
- As Guam is an unincorporated US territory, you should read this advice together with our travel advice for the United States of America.
- All Australians passport-holders eligible to travel to the United States under the Visitor Waiver Program are required to follow new border entry procedures. For further information, please see our travel bulletin on entry into the United States.
- Australia does not have an Embassy or Consulate in Guam. The Australian Embassy in the Federated States of Micronesia provides consular assistance to Australians in Guam.
- Pandemic (H1N1) 2009 has spread throughout the world. The World Health Organisation (WHO) provides useful information for individuals and travellers on its website. For further information and advice to Australians, including on possible quarantine measures overseas, see our travel bulletin on Pandemic (H1N1) 2009.
- Be a smart traveller. Before heading overseas:
- organise comprehensive travel insurance and check what circumstances and activities are not covered by your policy
- register your travel and contact details, so we can contact you in an emergency
- subscribe to this travel advice to receive free email updates each time it's reissued.
