Export Control

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Host a Foreign Visitor

Oklahoma State University works to maintain an open and welcoming environment where visitors from all over the world can come to learn, collaborate, and perform research. Along with the Office of Global Studies, the Office of Research Security and Regulatory Trade Compliance can help facilitate visits from foreign students, faculty and partners. These offices can assist with required export attestations on visas, help ensure that licenses are either not required or are obtained for the proposed visit/visitor and can assist with guidance on U.S. export-related regulations.

Visitor to General Campus Facilities and Spaces

Prior to inviting a foreign visitor to campus, please consider the following items:

• Is the visitor from a Sanctioned Country (Cuba, Iran, Syria, North Korea)?
• Is the visitor an employee or agent of a restricted entity or is the person on any restricted entity list? Please contact Export Controls to determine the answer to these questions.
• Will the visitor participate in any type of restricted research, or interact with any type of highly controlled equipment, materials, biologics, and/or software?

If the answer to any of these questions is “yes”, please contact Export Controls for assistance and guidance.

If your visitor is rom a restricted entity or is on a restricted parties list, special care must be taken to contact Export Control as soon as possible. All exports to employees and agents of a restricted party require a license, even for the transfers that occur in the U.S., For assistance developing a plan to host a visitor from a restricted party, please contact Export Control.

Foreign national visitors require an immigration visa to enter the U.S. Immigration and Customs regulations, certain visa types require an export control certification prior to submission of the visa. The Export Office works with OSU Global office to complete these certifications.

Visitors to Sensitive Research Facilities

Some facilities at Oklahoma State University perform extensive export-controlled research and/or contain highly controlled equipment or materials. These spaces generally operate under a facility control plan, which outlines spaces that are open to all individuals, and those spaces where access is restricted to only approved individuals.

Directors of such facilities/laboratories, as well as facility personnel, are aware that access to the facility/laboratory is restricted. Visitors to such facilities/laboratories must be identified and approved in advance by the facility director and/or the Export Control Officer prior to the visit. Restricted Party screening will be performed for all visitors to such facilities/laboratories, and additional investigation (such as background check) may be required depending on the duration of the visit, facilities/laboratories accessed, and nature of the work performed while at the facility/laboratory.

Where visitors to sensitive facilities/laboratories are not identified and/or approved in advance (either because the facility failed to notify Export Control Office or the delegation showed up impromptu), such visitors will not be allowed access to non-public spaces in such facilities.