Travel to Israel, Lebanon
Israel, Lebanon: Due to escalating hostilities and conflict, Stanford Global Risk strongly recommends against all university travel to Lebanon and Israel through at least January 31, 2025.
Prospective university travelers to these destinations should contact Global Risk (globalrisk@stanford.edu) with any health, safety, or security-related questions or concerns.
Elevated Risk & Travel Advisories
Risk Ratings
While all international travel involves inherent risks, it is important to stay informed about conditions that could pose a threat to your personal health, safety and security as well as to your research, studies, work. Through the International Travel Assistance Program, Stanford partners with Crisis24 which provides a thorough risk rating overview to guide you as you prepare to travel.
To review detailed location intelligence, including risk ratings, please visit the Crisis24 Horizon Platform.
Elevated Risk Ratings
Below is a list of destinations which have elevated risks and may be impacted by the Provost's International Travel Policy. The destinations either have "High" or "Extreme" overall ratings from Crisis24, privacy or cybersecurity concerns, or require working with export controls. Review the notes and action items by traveler type for how to proceed.
Elevated Risk Destinations
Country | Crisis24 Overall Rating | Notes | Undergrads | Faculty, Staff, Postdocs, Grad Students |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Afghanistan | Extreme | No presumption of privacy | Exception Required | |
| Algeria | High | No presumption of privacy | Exception Required | |
| Bangladesh | High | Exception Required | ||
| Belarus | High | No presumption of privacy | Exception Required | Please contact Stanford’s Export Control Officer at exportcontrols@stanford.edu |
| Burkina Faso | Extreme | Exception Required | ||
| Burundi | High | Exception Required | ||
| Cambodia | Moderate | No presumption of privacy | ||
| Central African Republic | Extreme | No presumption of privacy | Exception Required | |
| Chad | High | Exception Required | ||
| China | Low | No presumption of privacy. | Travel may proceed with specific mitigations. Please email globalrisk.stanford.edu | |
| Colombia | Moderate | Travel may proceed with specific mitigations. Please email globalrisk.stanford.edu | ||
| Congo (DRC) | High | Exception Required | ||
| Cuba | Low | No presumption of privacy | Please contact Stanford’s Export Control Officer at exportcontrols@stanford.edu | |
| Cyprus | Moderate | No presumption of privacy | ||
| East Timor | High | Exception Required | ||
| Egypt | High | No presumption of privacy | Exception Required | |
| Eritrea | High | No presumption of privacy | Exception Required | |
| Ethiopia | High | No presumption of privacy | Exception Required | |
| Gabon | High | Exception Required | ||
| Guatemala | Moderate | Guatemala City is high risk - transit through the city is not permitted for undergraduates | Exception Required | |
| Guinea | High | No presumption of privacy | Exception Required | |
| Guinea-Bissau | High | Exception Required | ||
| Haiti | Extreme | Exception Required | ||
| Hong Kong | Low | No presumption of privacy | ||
| Iran | High | No presumption of privacy | Exception Required | Please contact Stanford’s Export Control Officer at exportcontrols@stanford.edu |
| Iraq | Extreme | No presumption of privacy | Exception Required | |
| Israel | High | Exception Required | Global Risk strongly recommends against all university travel | |
| Kenya | High | Exception Required | ||
| Lebanon | High | Exception Required | Global Risk strongly recommends against all university travel | |
| Liberia | Moderate | No presumption of privacy | ||
| Libya | Extreme | No presumption of privacy | Exception Required | |
| Madagascar | High | Exception Required | ||
| Mali | Extreme | Exception Required | ||
| Mexico | Moderate | High Risk Destinations: Chihuahua, Coahuila, Colima, Durango, Guerrero, Leon, Michoacan, Nuevo Leon, Sinaloa, Sonora, Tamaulipas, Zacatecas | Travel may proceed with specific mitigations. Please email globalrisk.stanford.edu | |
| Mozambique | High | Exception Required | ||
| Myanmar | High | No presumption of privacy | Exception Required | |
| Niger | High | Exception Required | ||
| Nigeria | High | No presumption of privacy | Exception Required | |
| North Korea | High | No presumption of privacy | Exception Required | Please contact Stanford’s Export Control Officer at exportcontrols@stanford.edu |
| Pakistan | High | Exception Required | ||
| Palestinian Territories | High | Exception Required | ||
| Papua New Guinea | High | Exception Required | ||
| Russia | High | No presumption of privacy | Exception Required | Please contact Stanford’s Export Control Officer at exportcontrols@stanford.edu |
| Sierra Leone | High | No presumption of privacy | Exception Required | |
| Somalia | Extreme | No presumption of privacy | Exception Required | |
| South Africa | High | Exception Required | ||
| South Sudan | Extreme | No presumption of privacy | Exception Required | |
| Sudan | Extreme | No presumption of privacy | Exception Required | |
| Syria | Extreme | No presumption of privacy | Exception Required | Please contact Stanford’s Export Control Officer at exportcontrols@stanford.edu |
| Taiwan | Low | No presumption of privacy | ||
| Togo | High | Exception Required | ||
| Uganda | Moderate | Travel may proceed with specific mitigations. Please email globalrisk.stanford.edu | ||
| Ukraine | Extreme | No presumption of privacy | Exception Required | Please contact Stanford’s Export Control Officer at exportcontrols@stanford.edu |
| Venezuela | High | No presumption of privacy | Exception Required | |
| Yemen | Extreme | No presumption of privacy | Exception Required | |
| Zimbabwe | High | Exception Required |
If your destination was not listed or you would like more information, please login to the Crisis24 Horizon Mobile Platform and navigate to "Location Intelligence".
For undergraduate students if a destination requires an exception, please review the processes here. Exceptions are only considered in rare cases.
For faculty, staff, postdocs, grad students if your destination requires reaching out to the Privacy Office or Export Controls, please do so. See below for additional recommended protocols.