International journey security reminder | UIC immediately

Dear UIC campus neighborhood,

As a reminder, UIC’s International Travel Policy requires that each one college, workers and college students touring internationally on UIC-sponsored enterprise or packages should enroll within the acceptable International Travel Safety Portal earlier than touring. Enrollment is also required to obtain reimbursement.

If you might be touring internationally for non-UIC-related functions, please assessment the non-UIC-related worldwide journey issues under.

Faculty and workers touring overseas for university-related functions are required to:

• Seek approval from their supervisor and/or departmental chief as outlined of their unit’s protocols for requesting journey.
• Submit journey particulars within the International Travel Safety Portal.
• Submit journey particulars to Gallagher, UIC’s worldwide medical health insurance supplier, for the college’s worldwide medical health insurance (offered at no further price to college/workers members). Information about submitting journey particulars to Gallagher is accessible as a process within the portal.
• After submitting journey particulars to each the portal and Gallagher web sites, vacationers will obtain e mail confirmations, which can be utilized for expense report submission. Information on acceptable documentation for expense reviews is accessible beneath the FAQ part on the International Travel Safety webpage.

Students touring overseas for university-related functions are required to:

• Submit journey particulars within the International Travel Safety Portal.
• Submit journey particulars to Gallagher for the college’s worldwide medical health insurance. The present price of worldwide medical health insurance for college kids is accessible here. Information about submitting journey particulars to Gallagher is accessible as a process within the portal.

Travel to international locations with elevated journey advisories

Furthermore, the coverage states that college students touring to any nation with an elevated Travel Advisory from the U.S. Department of State (Level 3: Reconsider Travel and Level 4: Do Not Travel) or the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Level 3: Avoid Nonessential Travel) are topic to further assessment by the Office of Global Engagement. Students are additionally prohibited from touring to international locations for which the U.S. Department of State has issued an evacuation order.

In March, the Office of Global Engagement notified college, college students and workers with deliberate journey to the Middle East that the U.S. Department of State had issued a Worldwide Caution alert with a particular deal with journey to that area. As of immediately, this alert stays in place. Therefore, proposed journey to the Middle East area, or different places with Level 3 or Level 4 Travel Advisories, for UIC-sponsored enterprise or packages will proceed to bear further assessment.

Insurance Coverage Considerations

Please word that Gallagher displays world geopolitical conditions and maintains an energetic listing of nations/areas with conflict threat. If college, workers or college students are accredited to journey for college enterprise to a rustic or area on this listing, sure insurance coverage advantages is not going to be offered except a conflict threat endorsement is bought by means of Gallagher. The college requires {that a} conflict threat endorsement be bought in these circumstances. Please contact the Study Abroad Office at [email protected] for the listing of war-risk international locations or for extra info.

Non-UIC-related worldwide journey issues

Faculty and workers who journey internationally as a part of an out of doors exercise should obtain preapproval for the journey by means of the UIC Conflict of Commitment & Interest analysis portal accessed by way of the UIC Research COI hyperlink on the Conflict of Commitment & Interest webpage. Faculty and workers whose journey is paid for by any entity apart from UIC as a part of their UIC actions should obtain preapproval beneath the Educational Materials and Missions exception to the Ethics Act. Purely private journey ought to be reported to your supervisor or unit government officer, however vacationers shouldn’t enroll within the International Travel Safety portal for this journey.

Faculty, workers and college students who journey internationally, significantly with UIC property (comparable to computer systems) or information, ought to assessment the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research travel guidance. This steering consists of suggestions for traveling with cellphones and information for travel laptops for researchers. These suggestions apply whatever the goal of journey.

Questions and sources

More particulars relating to worldwide journey security, together with step-by-step directions, regularly requested questions and particular contacts, may be discovered on the Office of Global Engagement website.

The well being and security of our college students, college and workers, each on campus and overseas, stay the college’s high precedence. We thanks prematurely in your partnership in prioritizing security within the pursuit of world analysis, training and engagement.

Sincerely,

Karen J. Colley
Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs

Joanna Groden
Vice Chancellor for Research

Matt Riley
Associate Vice Chancellor for Innovation and Chief Information Officer

Jim Hammerschmidt
Interim Vice Provost for Global Engagement

For extra info, please contact:
Office of Global Engagement
[email protected]