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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black">The Office of Research and Economic Development has created this flowchart to help you navigate current rules surrounding foreign travel. If you will be travelling
out of the United States for any reason this summer, please refer to this document as you begin your planning.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black">The current list of “Countries of Concern” includes:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">China (including Hong Kong and Macau)</span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-top:3.0pt;margin-left:0in;mso-add-space:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">Cuba;</span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-top:3.0pt;margin-left:0in;mso-add-space:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">Iran;</span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-top:3.0pt;margin-left:0in;mso-add-space:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">North Korea;</span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-top:3.0pt;margin-left:0in;mso-add-space:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">Russia; and</span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin-top:3.0pt;margin-left:0in;mso-add-space:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">Venezuelan politician Nicolás Maduro (Maduro Regime).</span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:3.0pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">Grad students, if you are getting paid by the university (e.g., as a GAT or GAR) or if even a tiny bit of your travel is being covered by a faculty
member’s grant or university money, then you are required to follow these rules.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:3.0pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">Please remember that all university electronic assets (computers, laptops, tablets, etc with a property tag) have geofencing software that will notice
if you take it out of the US. Unauthorized removal of such equipment from the US can and probably will result in termination of your employment, so please don’t do it.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:3.0pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">Cheers,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:3.0pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">Kurtis<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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