diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 14d5ce5e..13ed05bb 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -18,6 +18,6 @@ requests
 phonenumbers==8.12.27
 django-countries
 django-localflavor==3.1
-amqp
+amqp<2.0,>=1.4.9
 anyjson
 pytz