International Travel Safety Information for Students
We wish all students who travel abroad a well-deserved vacation. We also want to help them avoid the many mishaps that can turn a vacation into a nightmare.
Find more information about how to stay safe this Summer/Spring Break, including how to register your trip with our embassies abroad:
- Students - Spring Break 2009
- Student Abroad Campaign
- Spring Break Top 5 Tips
- New Requirements for Travelers
- Register Your Trip
- Travel Tips for Students
- Emergencies and Crises
- Country Specific Information
- Help for American Victims of Crime Overseas
- Study Abroad Administrators Security Overseas Seminar
This training course is one of two courses available to the general public from the U.S. State Department's Foreign Service Institute at the George P. Shultz National Foreign Affairs Training Center in Arlington, VA.
All persons - including U.S. citizens - traveling by air from Canada , Mexico , the Caribbean , and Bermuda , must have a passport to enter the United States. This is true even if the foreign country visited does not require a passport for entry. Since it can take several weeks to obtain a passport, students are urged to apply now. Information about how to obtain a U.S. passport, and about traveling abroad, is available on the Department of State's website at http://www.travel.state.gov/travel/cbpmc/cbpmc_2223.html .
Although this new requirement applies only to air travel at this time, we encourage all Americans traveling abroad to have a passport.