Visa and Travel documents

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  • Authority to appoint
  • Change of official duty station
  • Competitive examinations
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  • Family relationships
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  • Government provided personnel (military, police, corrections, civilian)
  • Gratis personnel
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  • Internship programme
  • Mission subsistence allowance
  • Non-reimbursable loans of personnel services
  • One-dollar-a-year contracts
  • Participants in advisory meetings
  • Travel of other personnel (non-staff)
  • United Nations Volunteers
  • When-actually-employed contracts
  • Danger pay
  • Dependency allowances
  • Education grant
  • Hardship allowance
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  • Mobility incentive
  • Non-Family service allowance
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  • Repatriation grant
  • Representation allowance
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  • Field Joint Negotiation Committee
  • Joint Negotiation Committee
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  • Travel and relocation expenses
  • Daily subsistence allowance
  • Dates, mode, route and standard of travel
  • Education grant travel
  • Excess luggage
  • Family visit travel
  • Home leave travel
  • Illness or injury during Travel on official business
  • Insurance
  • Loss of entitlement to unaccompanied shipment or relocation shipment
  • Miscellaneous Travel expenses
  • Official Travel
  • Purchase of tickets
  • Travel and relocation rest and recuperation
  • Security and evacuation related allowances
  • Travel and relocation settling-in-grant
  • Shipments and relocation grant
  • Travel and relocation terminal expenses
  • Travel and relocation transportation of decedents
  • Travel and relocation travel advances
  • Travel and relocation travel by motor vehicle
  • Travel of other personnel (non-staff)
  • Visa and Travel documents
  • Breastfeeding
  • Emergency preparedness planning
  • Flexible working arrangement
  • Hours of work
  • Occupational Safety and Health
  • Support to survivors and families
  • Performance of Staff
  • Transitional measures

    • Visa and Travel documents

    Staff and Financial Regulations and Rules

    Visa and travel documents are governed by the following Staff Regulations and Rules:

    Staff Regulations, 1.1

    Staff Rules, 1.2

    For more detailed provisions please refer to the administrative issuances related to this topic.

    Secretary-General's Bulletin(s)

    ST/SGB/2000/11 Visa Committee

    Administrative Instruction(s)

    Information Circular(s)

    ST/IC/2020/11 Employment of household employees on G-5 visas (consolidated text)
    ST/IC/2020/11/Amend.1 Employment of household employees on G-5 visas
    ST/IC/2020/11 Employment of household employees on G-5 visas
    ST/IC/2020/8 Visa requirements for United Nations interns in the United States of America
    ST/IC/2019/21 Hourly wage for household employees on G-5 visas
    ST/IC/2018/25 G-4 visas for domestic partners
    ST/IC/2017/32 Employment of household employees on G-5 visas
    ST/IC/2017/8 United States Executive Order dated 27 January 2017 suspending immigrant and non-immigrant entry into the United States of aliens from Iran (Islamic Republic of) Iraq Libya Somalia the Sudan the Syrian Arab Republic and Yemen
    ST/IC/2017/6 Revised definition of "immediate family" for the purposes of the G visa
    ST/IC/2016/11 Revised policies and procedures for obtaining employment authorization for dependants of non-United States citizens
    ST/IC/2015/16 Change in practice regarding the cancellation of valid United States visas in the "G" category upon completion of assignment in the United States of America
    ST/IC/2014/29 Revised procedures for obtaining a driver's licence and testing requirements for licences with a motorcycle endorsement for non-United States citizens
    ST/IC/2014/25 Criteria for transfer of household employees on G-5 visas
    ST/IC/2014/19 Employment of household employees on G-5 visas
    ST/IC/2014/11 New procedure for checking the status of United States visa applications
    ST/IC/2013/31 Revision of form I-566 Interagency Record of Request-A G or NATO Dependent Employment Authorization or Change/Adjustment to/from A G or NATO Status dated 12 June 2013
    ST/IC/2013/17 Changes to the I-94 form (arrival/departure record) for United Nations staff and dependents
    ST/IC/2013/15 Eligibility requirements for derivative G status for secondary dependants of United Nations staff
    ST/IC/2012/7 Employment of household employees for whom a G-5 visa has been requested or obtained
    ST/IC/2009/42 Employment of household employees for whom a G-5 visa has been requested or obtained
    ST/IC/2008/11 Revalidation of visas
    ST/IC/2007/51 New travel regulations for foreign nationals entering Japan
    ST/IC/2007/43 Visa status while on mission service
    ST/IC/2006/33 Revised procedures for picking up documents processed by the Host Country Affairs Section of the United States Mission to the United Nations
    ST/IC/2004/31 Permanent residence in the United States of America - waiver of rights privileges exemptions and immunities
    ST/IC/2004/14 Filing of petitions for special immigrant classification and/or applications for lawful permanent resident status in the United States of America
    ST/IC/2004/8 United States Visitor and Immigrant Status Indicator Technology
    ST/IC/2003/41 Communications and contacts with host country authorities
    ST/IC/2001/27 Visa status in the United States of America (Consolidated)
    ST/IC/2001/27 Visa status in the United States of America
    ST/IC/2001/27/Amend.1 Visa status in the United States of America

    Policy Guidelines

    Forms