Federal Benefits and Federal Agency Services for American Citizens Abroad


Social Security

Medicare: Medicare benefits are not available outside the United States. For information about Medicare see http://www.ssa.gov/mediinfo.htm and http://www.medicare.gov/

Veterans Benefits and Services

  • http://www.va.gov/
  • Veterans On-Line Application Site (VONAPP) (There are a few countries which do not have a sufficient level of Internet security to allow VONAPP use. The security requirement is 128 bit encryption . If this is not available to you for any reason, you will not be able to use VONAPP.)

Taxes / Internal Revenue Service

U.S. Customs and Border Protection

U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

U.S. Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control: The Office of Foreign Assets Control of the U.S. Department of the Treasury administers and enforces economic and trade sanctions against targeted foreign countries, terrorism sponsoring organizations and international narcotics traffickers based on U.S. foreign policy and national security goals. OFAC acts under Presidential wartime and national emergency powers, as well as authority granted by specific legislation, to impose controls on transactions and freeze foreign assets under U.S. jurisdiction. Many of the sanctions are based on United Nations and other international mandates, are multilateral in scope, and involve close cooperation with allied governments.

Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services in the Department of Homeland Security: http://www.uscis.gov/graphics/index.htm

U.S. Census Bureau: http://www.census.gov/

Voting Assistance Program: http://www.fvap.gov/

Federal Aviation Administration (FAA): International Aviation Safety Assessment Program