American Travelers: legal travel to Cuba with U.S. Treasury Department Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) License

RESIDENTS OF THE USA

Educational activities
Following the implementation of new OFAC rules for Cuba Travel, enforced June 2004, we can only help institutions that already have a specific license. Such licenses are limited to undergraduate and graduate institutions (no secondary schools). Only students enrolled in the licensed institution may travel on that license. Employees who travel under the license must be full-time permanent employees of the licensed institution. The educational activities for the undergraduate students may be no less than 10 weeks; others (graduates and employees) may be for a period of less than 10 weeks.

Other requests
For any other requests, individuals or groups wanting to travel to Cuba, please contact the OFAC for licensing.

Office of Foreign Assets Control
U.S. Department of the Treasury
1500 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W.
Second Floor Annex
Washington, D.C. 20220
Tel. 202/622-2480
www.treas.gov/ofac

Once you have your license, we will be pleased to assist you in planning your trip to Cuba.

American Travelers: legal travel to Cuba with U.S. Treasury Department Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) License

Edu Tours To Cuba.com offers Americans legal travel to Cuba for those who already have an OFAC license. We can offer direct flights to Havana from Miami. Air is also available to Havana from Canada and Cancun, Mexico. Groups traveling with a license can fly out of the USA or Canada or Mexico. There are no restrictions regarding which country your departure city is located. The only condition is that the group must carry a license and follow an itinerary and program which are in conformity with the OFAC license.

The most common license are the ones being held for Universities and other educational institutions. However, it is also possible to acquire religious license for religious tours to Cuba in order to interact with the Afro Cuban religion and the Cuban black population. Those interested in Christianity and the Christian religion can also travel in order to find out about the reality of Cuban daily religious life, whether for Catholics or others.

For further information, contact us.