Registration Requirement Update
| A now requires for official international travel (defined as anything affiliated, sponsored, or funded by the UW) undertaken by 91探花faculty, staff, and other academic personnel. This will help ensure the 91探花 is able to account for and support its global travelers and be in compliance with new . Personal travel does not need to be registered unless the traveler is a , in which case certain types of will need to be registered. Through the registration of official travel, travelers are able to access 91探花global insurance resources, including an app for emergency assistance and pre-departure country-specific briefing materials. |
| Please also note the has been updated. The policy has been revised to return the University to a pre-pandemic approach to international remote work. Units seeking to relocate personnel abroad, or make internationally-located hires, should consult the policy. Limited exceptional requests for remote work abroad require the completion of a request form (linked in the policy), which should be submitted to 91探花Global Operations Support at . |
See below for additional FAQs. Please contact 91探花Global Travel Health and Safety at travelemergency@uw.edu with any unresolved questions.
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As of July 25, 2025, you are required to register official 91探花international travel, per .
As part of the required registration, you receive the following benefits –
- Travel registration is the best way to access your international insurance coverage.
- Part of this insurance coverage includes access to International SOS, an overseas emergency assistance service. Accessing the ISOS materials is done through your travel registration portal.
- Travel registration is the primary way that 91探花Global Travel Health and Safety stays up-to-date on the whereabouts of travelers abroad on 91探花official business. In the event of an emergency, resources are more readily available when we know where you are, how to reach you, or how to get in touch with your emergency contacts.
- Travel registration confirmation may also be required by your department for reimbursement.
- Travel to high risk destinations requires, per university policy, approval from the International Travel Risk Assessment Committee and the Provost.
- After听clicking on a registry link above, you’ll听be asked to login with your NetID.
- Note: you will see a large ‘ 91探花Study Abroad’ logo – you’re in the right place! We know you’re not on a study abroad program.
- Next, you will enter relevant traveler information, including name and NetID as well as destination and dates of travel.
- Note: you will need to select the destination from the dropdown menu. It will populate with destinations once you start typing.
- Provide the mobile phone number you will be using abroad and emergency contact information.
- You can also share听flight information,听detailed itineraries with multiple destination cities,听and lodging information.
Unfortunately there is no way to register on behalf of someone else without using their NetID. At this point, only the individual traveling can register for themselves 鈥 the registry lives behind a 91探花NetID login page.
Administrators can also email itinerary information to 91探花Global Travel Health and Safety (travelemergency@uw.edu) who can create the registration manually and email an access link to the traveler. Itinerary information should include only the travel dates and city, country(ies) of travel.
All individual official trips should be registered. Trips are determined by your itinerary parameters and the assumption that a traveler is returning to the US, their home country, or taking time off in between.
For example, a faculty member that travels to Bangkok every month for a week, returning to the US for the other three weeks of the month, they would need to register each of those trips separately.
Conversely, if a faculty member is traveling to Nairobi for a meeting with research partners and then immediately flying to Geneva to present at a conference, that should be registered under the same trip with multiple destinations.
The individual trips are not defined by the parameters of an award or grant, but based on the specific 鈥渞ound-trip鈥 itinerary dates.
A Travel Waiver is required for travel to any country or region. If you are traveling to a country that has Level 3 and 4 areas, even if you will not be traveling to them, you will be required to submit a waiver. If a waiver is required, it will be included in the registration听辫谤辞肠别蝉蝉.
Our system is automated to flag any听country听with an elevated advisory level (including regional ones), which is why a听travel听waiver may be required for your itinerary country. Due to technical constraints, we aren’t able to filter out destinations by city. We can’t account for every city in every Level 4 region around the world. The solution is a travel听waiver听that deploys based on the itinerary country, not city or region. The听travel听waiver, in this case, acts essentially as a signature document, confirming your itinerary city. The intention is to help us mitigate and reduce the possibility that we would be unaware of UW听travel听to a high-risk area.听
More information on the insurance is included in your registration, including steps on how to . You must use your 91探花email to login.
Using International SOS, the emergency assistance provider, is the easiest way to access your Cigna insurance while abroad.
See here for more information.
Yes, dependents (children, spouses, domestic partners, etc.) who are accompanying 91探花personnel on an official trip are covered under the same insurance policy. They should not register separate travel and are automatically covered under your registration.
- Your registration will be processed immediately, and you will receive a confirmation email.
- We encourage you to also register your travel with the U.S. Embassy / Consulate through the U.S. State Department鈥檚听.
- The UW听International Travel Registry assists the Office of Global Affairs in providing emergency support and resources to 91探花travelers abroad.
- It is not an approval process – you are required to get travel approval from your individual unit or department.
- Registry information is confidential. It is used by the 91探花Global Travel team in case of an emergency, and to provide support when requested.
- All 91探花employees traveling outside of the U.S. on official 91探花travel.
- All 91探花graduate assistants, residents and fellows traveling outside of the U.S. on official 91探花travel.
- All covered individuals.
Personal travel does not need to be registered unless the traveler is a Covered Individual, in which case certain types of personal travel will need to be registered. Please note: personal travel is not covered under 91探花global insurance.
For questions about Covered Individual definitions, contact the Office of Research: researchsecurity@uw.edu.
The definition of covered individual varies depending on the federal agency. Generally, however, it is:
An individual who (A) contributes in a substantive, meaningful way to the scientific development or execution of an R&D project proposed to be carried out with an鈥ward from a Federal research agency; and (B) is designated as a covered individual by the Federal research agency concerned.鈥 See听
For more information, see here.
Travel to US territories and commonwealths should be registered.
Our insurance coverage will extend to those areas as well.
If the primary purpose of travel is personal then the travel does not need to be registered.
However, if a traveler knows that as part of their personal travel they will be working as part of their faculty/staff appointment for a predetermined period then just those dates can be registered. Working abroad for more than thirty days, that is working internationally while receiving 91探花payroll funds, including for personal reasons, falls into a different category than just travel registration.
Temporary remote work abroad for periods exceeding 30 days .
It is up to each unit or department to determine any individual consequences for not registering. Your individual unit manages your requests and approvals process and may withhold travel reimbursements without proof of confirmation of registration.
For retroactive travel, if the travel dates have already passed, the travel does not need to be registered.
There are also possible institutional consequences for not registering travel, particularly for covered individuals or longer-term travel that poses tax, export control, or cybersecurity risks and regulations.
No, non- 91探花individuals do not need to register, even if being funded through the University. The registry lives behind Net IDs, so a good rule of thumb is that anyone without a Net ID cannot (and should not) register.
If someone has a Net ID, they likely have an official 91探花appointment and should register any official travel.
- If听you are leading a group of students on an international program or trip听not听affiliated with the Bothell, Seattle or Tacoma study abroad offices, visit the website to register your program and learn more about how 91探花Study Abroad and the 91探花Global Travel Security program can assist with administering the health and safety elements of your program.
- All students traveling overseas through an academic program or receiving funds/sponsorship from 91探花must听purchase the听, activate International SOS, register international travel, and for travel to high-risk destinations. This will automatically deploy in your program proposal and in student’s individual applications. You should not register a separate trip for the duration of your program.
Student status takes precedent over employment status for 91探花international travel. If you are enrolled in any credit-bearing capacity at the UW, you are required to register your travel as a student, even if the travel is related to your employment.
- Those taking non-matriculated classes should register as faculty/staff.
- 91探花Medical Residents should register as faculty/staff.
91探花students, register your travel through Travel Registration and Insurance Purchase (TRIP).
The determines what is considered a reimbursable travel expense. In the case of specifically 91探花Student Abroad Insurance, it is required under the and therefore reimbursable.听
If grant funds have been designated for incidental expenses related to international travel then insurance should fall within that. However, a unit should defer to the grant administrator for specific guidance.听
91探花Global Travel Health and Safety would like to emphasize that the $25 fee is not an administrative fee but rather the student traveler鈥檚 insurance premium.
Need help with the registry?
Contact the 91探花Global Travel Health and Safety team at travelemergency@uw.edu or听206.616.7927