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United Arab Emirates

Overall Country Risk Rating

Travel Restriction

Affected Areas: Entire Country

Important: Requires Crisis24 pre-approval in order to be eligible for political and natural disaster evacuation coverage. (See details below and on the U-M Crisis24 page.)   

Last Updated: June 8, 2026

Student Eligibility & Requirements

The United Arab Emirates currently has a Travel Restriction rating.

  • Undergraduate students are prohibited from traveling to a Travel Restriction destination for University of Michigan Related Travel (UMRT).
  • Graduate students on UMRT are eligible to travel to this location after completing the following requirements: 
    1. Register your travel with U-M (For students who applied for their program through M-Compass, your program application is your travel registration.)
    2. For individual travel abroad, submit an Individual Safety Plan at least 6 weeks before departure. (See Travel Health Plan & Safety Plan Process for details.)
      • ITOC will forward your completed Safety Plan to Crisis24 to serve as the pre-approval request. Travel that is not approved by the assistance provider will not be eligible for political evacuation or natural disaster evacuation coverage.*
      • For students participating in Group Travel Abroad, your group leader will submit a “Group Safety Plan” on behalf of the participants; meaning individual students do NOT need to submit an Individual Safety Plan. (See Group Travel Requirements for details.)
    3. Enroll in U-M Travel Abroad Health Insurance for the travel duration.
    4. Follow college/unit-specific travel approval steps, if any.

*Note: There is a possibility that Crisis24 denies an evacuation coverage request. U-M discourages travel abroad without evacuation coverage. If you choose to travel abroad without evacuation coverage, U-M cannot provide evacuation support. If you choose to travel without evacuation coverage while on UMRT, you must follow the pre-approval process outlined in the “Faculty, Staff, and Graduate Students Traveling with No Evacuation Coverage on UMRT” section of the Crisis24 page.

Faculty & Staff Requirements

  1. Register your travel with U-M
  2. Complete the U-M Liability Waiver for Locations with No Evacuation Coverage acknowledging that you accept traveling without political or natural-disaster evacuation coverage and that you understand that U‑M cannot provide evacuation support for this travel.
  3. Current U-M Faculty and Staff on U-M related travel abroad are automatically covered under U-M Travel Abroad Health Insurance for the travel duration.

*Note: There is a possibility that Crisis24 denies an evacuation coverage request. U-M discourages travel abroad without evacuation coverage. If you choose to travel abroad without evacuation coverage, U-M cannot provide evacuation support. If you choose to travel without evacuation coverage while on UMRT, you must follow the pre-approval process outlined in the “Faculty, Staff, and Graduate Students Traveling with No Evacuation Coverage on UMRT” section of the Crisis24 page.

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