Many of you may know this already, but for a young adventurous student, it may be fresh knowledge. When you plan to travel abroad, the State Department of the United States Government can help provide you with timely information about the destined country, and if you register your trip with them it provides a registry of your address and contact information. This information is extremely important if there is a national crisis where you are residing. The State Department makes it their priority to get U.S. citizens out of dangerous situations as quickly as possible. For example, they evacuated 16,700 Americans out of Haiti after the big earthquake.
The current travel registry is called the Smart Traveler Enrollment Program (STEP).
For you students out there, when applying for a visa or registering your trip and you are asked for your local residency, provide the address and contact information of your university until you have additional information.
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