Working With Foreign Colleagues and Organizations

If you are considering any work with colleagues and organizations located in or affiliated with comprehensively sanctioned countries or regions, carefully review our Sanctioned Countries and Regions page for more information, and contact [email protected] before proceeding.

The U.S. government and other organizations and entities maintain various restricted party lists, which are publicly available, and updated on a regular basis. When collaborating internationally we must check against these lists to ensure there are no restrictions. See our Restricted Party Screening page for more information about screening and those who can conduct screening. If you need screening support, please contact [email protected].

Mason’s Office of International Programs and Services (OIPS) works with Schools that wish to invite foreign scholars to visit. Please visit the OIPS site for information and forms on both J-1 Visitors and permanent faculty appointments. 

If your collaboration involves international travel, please see our International Travel page for more guidance.

University research activity done outside the United States may not qualify for the Fundamental Research Exclusion and may be subject to export controls until the work is published or otherwise made publicly available. Before disclosing or sharing information and data resulting from international fieldwork reach out to [email protected] so that we can provide appropriate guidance.

When presenting data or information in an international setting (including in the United States where the audience may include foreign nationals), ensure that you limit your presentation to only information or data that is published, or is publicly available, or that qualifies as Fundamental Research. Be careful not to include or discuss any proprietary, unpublishable, or export-controlled data or information as that may constitute an unauthorized export.

If you are considering attending a conference or meeting in a comprehensively sanctioned countries or region, carefully review our Sanctioned Countries and Regions page for more infIf you are attending or presenting at an international conference, meeting or event we will need to screen the sponsor(s), the host(s) and any individuals you will meet with outside the planned agenda or program, as well as their organizations. See our Restricted Party Screening page for more information.

Whether hosting individual visitors, delegations, or groups, you need to ensure that you limit any presentations, demonstrations and site visits to only information or data that is published, is publicly available, or that qualifies as Fundamental Research. Do not include or discuss any proprietary, unpublishable, or export-controlled data or information or visit controlled sites as that may constitute an unauthorized export.

All international visitors must be screened. See our Restricted Party Screening page for more information.

If planning to ship items to any international colleagues or organization, see our International Shipments page for more information.

See our International Travel page for more information.

Contact us at [email protected] if you screen a colleague and they or their institution appears on one of these restricted party lists. We will review the listing against the restrictions the U.S. Government has placed on the individual or their institution and the type of collaboration. See the Restricted Party Screening Page for more information.

It will depend on the country and the nature of the collaboration. Contact [email protected] as soon as possible and see our Sanctioned Countries and Regions page for more information.