Originally Posted by steve74
To add to what Rick shared, the customs officers in the US are pretty stringent on meat and produce coming in from the BVI. We also charter for 14 days and typically spend a day or two in St. John. However, on our last trip, after experiencing scrutiny about our food the prior year, we decided not to visit the USVI. We have heard a few stories where boats were called into the customs dock to be searched. Obviously, if this is important to you, you can research what the restrictions are and make sure you do not have any of the restricted foods onboard. Good luck!

I can share first hand experience with this. The last time we came back to the USVI from the BVI I checked in via ROAM and checked the box that asked if we had animals, meat...etc. on board because we had our dog with us. We do this quite frequently and usually either get approved online within about a half an hour to an hour or I've also had to call and then they quickly approve us. This time we were already on the mooring ball at Honeymoon and hadn't heard from them. I called and asked about it and he said they had some questions about what kind of meat we had on board. We had cooked bacon, breakfast sandwiches (with cooked breakfast sausage), lunch meat, etc. All of these items we got in the USVI and took over to the BVI, which I explained to them. They told us that we were going to need to bring the boat to the customs dock in Cruz Bay. We did this and they had 2 agents come aboard and had me take everything out of our fridge/freezer. They confiscated all pork products but let us keep a roti (with cooked chicken). They were extremely friendly and told us we did the right thing by claiming the meat so that they could dispose of it properly. So, what we learned is that you can't bring any pork products into the USVI, even if it was bought in the USVI. If it goes into another country it is considered contaminated. You also can't bring raw chicken from another country but you can bring it in if it is cooked.