Who needs to register?

Registering the details of your trip is a mandatory requirement for every student traveling outside the Greater Montreal Area on university sanctioned activities. The Greater Montreal Area includes the communities within Montreal, Laval, Longueuil, The North Shore and South Shore. To register, you must know your McGill ID,听travel dates, destination, host institution name and host-location contact person鈥檚 name, and personal emergency contact information.

The North Shore also known as Rive-Nord includes the following municipalities: Mirabel, Deux-Montagnes, Oka, Saint-Eustache, Pointe-Calumet, Saint-Joseph-du-Lac, Sainte-Marthe-sur-le-lac, Blainville, Bois-des-Filion- Lorraine, Rosem猫re, Sainte-Anne-des-Plaines & Sainte-Th茅r猫se, Mascouche, Terrebonne, Charlemagne, L'Assomption, Repentigny and Saint-Sulpice.听

The South Shore includes Beauharnois, Beloeil, Calixa-Lavall茅e, Candiac, Carignan, Chambly, Ch芒teauguay, Contrecoeur, Delson, Hudson, L鈥櫭巐e-Cadieux,L鈥櫭巐e-Perrot, La Prairie, L茅ry, Les C猫dres, McMasterville, Mercier, Mont-Saint-Hilaire, Notre-Dame-de-l'鈥櫭巐e Perrot, Otterburn Park, Pincourt, Pointe-des-Cascades, Richelieu, Saint-Amable, Saint-Basile-le-Grand, Saint-Constant, Saint-Isidore, Saint-Jean-Baptiste, Saint-Lazare, Saint-Mathis-sur-Richelieu, Saint-Mathieu, Saint-Mathieu-de-Beloeil, Saint-Philippe, Sainte-Catherine, Sainte-Julie, Terasse-Vaudreuil, Varennes, Vaudreuil-Dorion, Vaudreuil-sur-le-Lac & Verch猫res.

If your university sanctioned trip involves activities in more than one country, you must fill out a separate registration for each trip. If you are unable to use the McGill Student Travel Registry app due to technical reasons, contact McGill Abroad at safetyabroad [at] mcgill.ca听with the details of your trip no later than 4 weeks before your departure.听

What is a university-sanctioned activity?

University-sanctioned activities include:听

• Curricular programs听
• Credit or non-credit course work听
• Exchange programs听
• Field work听
• Research听
• Co-curricular activities (University-related internships)听
• Varsity sports听

For the McGill Student Travel Registry app, university sanctioned activities include those where travel outside of the Greater Montreal area forms an essential part of the activity, whether or not the student is pursuing the activity for academic credit or recognition and whether or not the student receives University or third-party funding.听

For more information, please review the 鈥�Policy on Student Safety Abroad鈥�.

Note: You are not required to register personal trips that take place before or after your dates of university-sanctioned travel. This registry is solely a requirement for university-sanctioned activities.

What additional features does the McGill Student Travel Registry app provide?

The McGill Student Travel Registry app provides a confidential registry of students abroad so that McGill Abroad can communicate with you through email and check-ins, as required. Additionally, it gives you access to safety tools and information beyond the registration of your travel, including:

Notifications

• Live travel advice and advisories from the Government of Canada
• Alerts with Check-in Requests from McGill Abroad if the status of your host destination country or region changes to鈥� Avoid Non-Essential Travel鈥� or 鈥淎void All Travel鈥�, as per the Government of Canada鈥檚 Travel Advice and Advisories
• To receive notifications while abroad, please log into your McGill Student Travel Registry app at least once every 30 days while abroad听

Emergency Contact Shortcuts

• 911 and International Emergency Services numbers
• 24hr McGill Campus Security
• Canadian Emergency Consular Assistance
• Sending an 鈥淚鈥檓 OK鈥� message contact of your choice听

Tools

• Emergency Guide
• Friend Walk: Share your live location with a friend so they can see that you have reached your destination.
• Share your live location with a friend via email

A List of Links to Resources

• Wellness Hub
• Health Insurance Information
• McGill Safety Abroad