International Travel Reviews: International travel presents significant export compliance concerns, including, but not limited to, issues related to formal involvement with restricted or denied parties and international shipment and/or hand-carry of controlled items, information or software to international destinations.

• For Penn State Travelers: Under University Policy AD89, all University Persons must request a pre-travel review of planned international travel activities undertaken for official University business purposes prior to departure. No export review is required for purely personal travel events or for travel by students for non-University business purposes.The required export review of any covered international travel will be handled by the trained Export Compliance Specialists and staff within the University Export Compliance Office, including any travel related to or funded under a Sponsored Research grant, contract, or any other award vehicle. This pre-travel export compliance review is not an approval process but serves as the means to help to identify and mitigate export compliance “red flags” (risks) prior to the commencement of international travel activities.

  To facilitate the completion of an export review of foreign travel for University business purposes, University Persons may submit a request for review to the University Export Compliance Office by enrollment of the international travel event in the Global Safety Network (GSN) system as required under the University International Travel Requirements Policy. Export reviews for University Affiliated International Travel will only be completed within the GSN system, so enrollment of all travel is recommended at least 30 days prior to departure. For travel events that are not required to be registered in the GSN or when circumstances prevent registration in the GSN, please contact the University Export Compliance Office for the latest Export Review Request Form for international travel. General questions about export compliance reviews of international travel may be directed to the UECO.

• For Non-PSU Persons and University Supported International Travel: This form may be used to initiate an export review of international travel by non-PSU persons when such travel is to be reimbursed or purchased directly, in whole or in part, by the University. This form may not be used for University Persons (Penn State faculty, staff, or students) who are required by the University International Travel Requirements Policy to enroll their travel in the Global Safety Network (GSN). Non-PSU Persons may contact the GSN Staff to enable access to the GSN system and, should they enroll their University-supported travel in the GSN, this form would not be required (as the foreign travel review will be completed in the GSN system). For the purposes of this form, international travel is a trip to an international destination, not a trip from an international destination to the USA (and then back). As an example, faculty supporting travel by a collaborator using gift funds to cover expenses for the foreign collaborator to come to Penn State for meetings is not international travel (as the destination is domestic) but should be considered a short-term visit (see International Visitor Form below). However, the same use of funds to cover the expenses of a non-PSU person related to their travel to an international conference would be considered international travel which should be reviewed using this form.

NOTICE: For travel to any U.S. sanctioned/embargoed destinations (currently Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Sudan and Syria), travelers should contact the University Export Compliance Office via email as soon as the decision to travel is made. For travel to some destinations, such as Iran, a U.S. export license or other governmental approval may be required. Application for and receipt of such licenses may require 4-6 months of processing time.