High-Risk Country List

High-Risk Countries

In accordance with the Policy on Travel to High-Risk and Sanctioned Destinations, the below countries are designated as high-risk by the university. 

Students, staff, and faculty may not participate in university travel to high-risk destinations on university travel without prior approval.  

Instructions for obtaining approval to the below destinations can be found on the Travel Protocols page. Contact MYTRAVELPLANS@northeastern.edu or your program advisor/coordinator for more information.

Countries designated as “Travel Suspended,” “Cybersecurity Risk,” and “Comprehensive Sanctions” have additional compliance requirements found on their respective webpages. Countries marked with an asterisk (*) are subject to sanctions. 

• Afghanistan* (Travel Suspended) 
• Algeria 
• Angola 
• Antarctica 
• Armenia* 
• Azerbaijan 
• Bahrain*
• Bangladesh 
• Belarus* (Travel Suspended; Cybersecurity Risk)
• Belize 
• Benin 
• Bolivia  
• Bosnia and Herzegovina*
• Brazil 
• Brunei
• Burkina Faso 
• Burundi 
• Cambodia* 
• Cameroon
• Central African Republic* (Comprehensive Sanctions) 
• Chad (Travel Suspended)
• China* (Cybersecurity Risk, Comprehensive Sanctions)
• Colombia 
• Comoros 
• Congo 
• Côte d’Ivoire 
• Cuba* (Comprehensive Sanctions)
• Cyprus* 
• Democratic Republic of the Congo* (Travel Suspended, Comprehensive Sanctions)
• Djibouti 
• Dominican Republic 
• Ecuador 
• Egypt* 
• El Salvador 
• Equatorial Guinea 
• Eritrea* (Comprehensive Sanctions)
• Eswatini 
• Ethiopia* (Travel Suspended)
• Gabon 
• Gambia 
• Georgia* 
• Ghana 
• Grenada
• Guatemala 
• Guinea 
• Guinea-Bissau 
• Guyana 
• Haiti* 
• Heard Island and McDonald Islands 
• Honduras 
• Hong Kong* (Cybersecurity Risk, Comprehensive Sanctions)
• India 
• Indonesia 
• Iran* (Travel Suspended, Cybersecurity Risk, Comprehensive Sanctions)
• Iraq* (Travel Suspended, Comprehensive Sanctions)
• Israel* (Travel Suspended) 
• Jamaica 
• Jordan* 
• Kazakhstan* 
• Kenya 
• Kiribati 
• Kosovo* 
• Kuwait* 
• Kyrgyzstan*
• Laos* 
• Lebanon* (Travel Suspended, Comprehensive Sanctions) 
• Lesotho 
• Liberia 
• Libya* (Travel Suspended, Cybersecurity Risk, Comprehensive Sanctions)
• Macao* (Cybersecurity Risk)
• Madagascar 
• Malawi 
• Malaysia 
• Maldives 
• Mali* (Travel Suspended)
• Mauritania 
• Mexico 
• Moldova 
• Mongolia*
• Montenegro*
• Morocco 
• Mozambique 
• Myanmar* (Travel Suspended)
• Namibia 
• Nepal
• New Caledonia
• Nicaragua* 
• Niger 
• Nigeria 
• North Korea* (Travel Suspended, Cybersecurity Risk, Comprehensive Sanctions)
• North Macedonia*
• Oman* 
• Pakistan* 
• Palestinian Territories (Travel Suspended, Cybersecurity Risk) 
• Panama 
• Papua New Guinea 
• Peru 
• Philippines 
• Poland
• Qatar* 
• Romania
• Russian Federation* (Travel Suspended, Cybersecurity Risk, Comprehensive Sanctions)
• Rwanda 
• Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
• Saint Lucia 
• Saudi Arabia* 
• Senegal 
• Serbia*
• Sierra Leone 
• Solomon Islands 
• Somalia* (Travel Suspended, Comprehensive Sanctions)
• South Africa 
• South Sudan* (Travel Suspended)
• Sri Lanka 
• Sudan* (Travel Suspended, Comprehensive Sanctions)
• Syria* (Travel Suspended, Cybersecurity Risk, Comprehensive Sanctions)
• Taiwan*
• Tajikistan* 
• Tanzania 
• Thailand 
• Timor-Leste 
• Togo 
• Trinidad and Tobago 
• Tunisia 
• Turkey 
• Turkmenistan* (Cybersecurity Risk)
• Tuvalu 
• Uganda 
• Ukraine* (Travel Suspended, Cybersecurity Risk, Comprehensive Sanctions)
• United Arab Emirates* (Cybersecurity Risk)
• Uzbekistan*
• Venezuela* (Travel Suspended) 
• Vietnam*
• Western Sahara 
• Yemen* (Travel Suspended)
• Zambia 
• Zimbabwe*