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canarymoon · 12-31-2008, 12:49 PM

From the website of the US State Department:

Register Your Travel So We Can Contact You in an Emergency

Why It’s Important

The State Department strongly encourages American citizens planning travel abroad to register their travel with the Department of State. Travel registration makes it possible to contact a traveler if necessary, whether because of a family emergency in the United States or because of a crisis in the place the traveler is visiting. Registration is a free service provided by the State Department, and is easily accomplished online at https://travelregistration.state.gov.

Note that, in accordance with the Privacy Act, the Department of State may not release information about those registered without their express written authorization.

If your family needs to reach you because of an emergency, they can pass a message to you through the Office of Overseas Citizens Services, which can be contacted from within the United States at 1-888-407-4747 (toll free), and from overseas at 202-501-4444. The Office of Overseas Citizens Services will contact the U.S. Embassy or Consulate in the country in which you are traveling in order to pass the message to you.

The State Department also advises leaving a detailed itinerary and copies of your passport biographical-data page with a friend or relative in the United States.

How to Register (It’s Easy)

You can either register online at https://travelregistration.state.gov .
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If you would like to contact an embassy or consulate you can go to US Dept of State - Websites of US Embassies, Consulates, and Diplomatic Missions/ for access to U.S. Embassy and Consulate web pages.

hanna · 12-31-2008, 01:44 PM

Never thought of this. Should this be a sticky?

canarymoon · 12-31-2008, 02:59 PM

Good question.

thtalks · 01-07-2009, 10:34 AM

I registered after reading this. Great idea! Thanks for sharing it!

cruisin' chick · 01-08-2009, 12:49 AM

Sounds like a good idea.

canarymoon · 01-10-2009, 08:50 PM

Some two dozen or so Americans who were visiting Gaza were not registered, so our gov't was unaware they were theere when the current conflict started. Had they been registered, it probably might have made a difference in getting out sooner.

As it is, they have just gotten out in the last day or two.

That's what I heard on a news report, anyway In the report, a point was made that they hadn't registered their travel.

MD11F · 01-11-2009, 01:14 AM

Yes, this should be a sticky.

Char · 01-11-2009, 01:32 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by MD11F

Yes, this should be a sticky.

Of course! It's been a sticky since Wednesday.