Travel Coverage – Harvard Legislation College

Domestic Travel

All college students planning to journey domestically with a scholar group on a subject journey, or for a course, should signal an Assumption of Risk and General Release Form and submit a signed Travel Form beneath.

International Travel

All college students planning to journey internationally, please discuss with our HLS International Travel data web page. There are three completely different Assumption of Risk types for International journey (course, subject journey and one for credit score).

For these college students touring overseas throughout spring break, it is very important notice that membership in a acknowledged HLS group doesn’t defend worldwide college students from immigration legal guidelines. In advance of journey overseas, all members of such teams ought to be knowledgeable of the next: not like U.S. residents and everlasting residents, worldwide college students at Harvard might face difficulties when touring overseas and returning to the U.S. throughout their research. Before making a dedication to journey exterior the U.S., worldwide college students ought to verify their scholar visa paperwork, and converse to an advisor within the Harvard International Office (HIO). If the scholar visa stamp within the passport (F-1 or J-1) is legitimate for re-entry to the U.S., then the scholar might solely want a journey signature on the suitable visa doc earlier than leaving the U.S. Travel signatures are issued by the advisors within the HIO.

If the F-1 or J-1 visa stamp within the scholar’s passport just isn’t legitimate on the time of re-entry to the U.S., the scholar might want to apply for a brand new one at a U.S. embassy or consulate abroad (these visa stamps will not be issued throughout the U.S.). Students should be capable to show their eligibility for a non-immigrant visa by submitting the suitable visa documentation to a U.S. embassy or consulate exterior the U.S. Consular officers count on to see proof of ties with the house nation, similar to household, property, employment, financial institution accounts, and so on. In some instances, a scholar could also be required to have a short interview with a consular officer. If the scholar fails to current ample proof about his/her intention to return residence, the consular officer might decide the scholar ineligible for a non-immigrant visa. If a scholar is denied a non-immigrant visa, she or he shall be unable to return to the U.S.

Students (together with U.S. residents) could also be required to acquire a visa stamp for permission to enter one other nation. International college students might face difficulties acquiring visas to enter a 3rd nation as a result of they aren’t residing within the residence nation. In addition, there’s an immigration legislation which may prohibit some college students from acquiring a visa stamp at a U.S. embassy or consulate in a 3rd nation (not their residence nation); this may happen if there was some earlier violation within the phrases of the U.S. visa standing.

International college students ought to verify with the HIO earlier than committing themselves to a visit exterior the U.S. Peter O’Meara is the advisor within the HIO for college students at HLS and could be reached at 617-496-2819 or e-mail [email protected]; the workplace is positioned at www.hio.harvard.edu.

Please contact the DOS-CEEB with questions on journey and data on the journey waiver type.