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McGill Student Travel Registry app
McGill Student Travel Registry is the official safety app for McGill students travelling outside of the Greater Montreal area on university sanctioned activities. The app allows McGill to keep a record of your travel dates and study destinations and to contact students in case the safety situation in the location they are visiting changes. All students travelling on a university-sanctioned activity must register their travel through the app at least 10 working days prior to their scheduled departure. You will receive alerts and check-in requests from McGill Abroad, via the app as well as your McGill email, in case the Government of Canada issues an “Avoid-Non-Essential Travel” or “Advise All Travel” advisory for your university-related travel destination.
- Who needs to register?
- What is a university sanctioned activity?
- What additional features does the McGill Student Travel Registry app provide?
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, travel dates, destination, host institution name and host-location contact person’s 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, Rosemère, Sainte-Anne-des-Plaines & Sainte-Thérèse, Mascouche, Terrebonne, Charlemagne, L'Assomption, Repentigny and Saint-Sulpice.
The South Shore includes Beauharnois, Beloeil, Calixa-Lavallée, Candiac, Carignan, Chambly, Châteauguay, Contrecoeur, Delson, Hudson, L’Île-Cadieux,L’Île-Perrot, La Prairie, Léry, Les Cèdres, McMasterville, Mercier, Mont-Saint-Hilaire, Notre-Dame-de-l'’Île 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 & Verchères.
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 with the details of your trip no later than 4 weeks before your departure.
What is a university-sanctioned activity?
University-sanctioned activities include:
- Curricular programs
- Credit or non-credit course work
- Exchange programs
- Field work
- Research
- Co-curricular activities (University-related internships)
- Varsity sports
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.
For more information, please review the “Policy on Student Safety Abroad”.
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:
- 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” Avoid Non-Essential Travel” or “Avoid All Travel”, as per the Government of Canada’s 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
- 911 and International Emergency Services numbers
- 24hr McGill Campus Security
- Canadian Emergency Consular Assistance
- Sending an “I’m OK” message contact of your choice
- 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
- Wellness Hub
- Office for Sexual Violence Response, Support and Education
- Peer Support and McGill Nightline
- Health Insurance Information
- Global Affairs Canada
- Canadians Abroad Registry from the Government of Canada
- Canadian Travel Advisories
- McGill Safety Abroad
