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• About our Expatriate Community Web Portal

  This site was created for our global personnel working outside of their country of citizenship for six months or longer and is a communication tool to supplement your expatriate employee manual that is only updated once a year.

  Please use the site to monitor important announcements from Regional Home Offices and watch the "upcoming events calendar" above very closely. This will be updated once a week. In addition, the site contains reference information from all of our vendors that support our expatriate assignments as well as our Expatriate Policy and Procedure manual for 2009 - 2010 also called the expatriate handbook, updated every February.

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Notice to all current expatriates, please look for the new expatriate policy manual coming this summer to replace the old expatriate handbook.  The policy will be posted online on this expatriate communication portal.

Since there are many changes and updates we ask that all expatriates read through the new expat policy manual within 2 weeks of it being posted.  Thank you.  Home office Global Mobility Office.

The CIGNA International medical program will replace the Humana national PPO program for all expatriates on January 1, 2010.  In addition, those still enrolled with Blue Cross of California’s indemnity plan while living outside of the country will also be moved over to the CIGNA International  medical program on January 1st.  If you are currently on expatriate assignment there is nothing you need to do, and you will automatically be enrolled into the new international program for medical and dental on January 1, 2010. You will be receiving a new medical ID card and plan booklet by December 1, 2009.

If you will not be in your host country on December 1, 2009 and do not plan to return to the host country until January, we can make arrangements to have your medical ID card and the new insurance information sent to an alternative address.  Please contact Samantha Garland in Corporate Global Mobility.

If you do not participate in open enrollment, you and your family, using your existing elections for medical and dental will be automatically moved into the new medical plan on January 1st.  As an expatriate, you are not required to login to the open enrollment web-based system (continued)

This portal was built for our international assignees (U.S. and non-U.S. expatriates) working outside of their home country anywhere in the world. (We have included a special section for foreign nationals working in the U.S.)

ABCompany invests in the success of our international assignees. The ABCompany Expatriate Resource Center in Kansas City has created this website as a single resource for everything you will need to know about your expatriate assignment. Please review the FAQ section often, as it will be updated as common questions are presented from the field.

This site will serve as a reminder about upcoming events and other important topics that will affect most of you.  Please review the Expatriate Policy and Procedures manual at least once a year. It spells out exactly what the company is provided during your expatriate assignment and what your own responsibilities are regarding expenses and insurance during your international assignment. For example, it is your responsibility to make sure you secure personal property and liability insurance for you and your family before your household goods arrive in your host country.

Please log into the homepage at least once a week for important notes and reminders.  Posts and updates will be organized by topic, and these articles will be archieved by topic so you can go back and reference them again if you need to.

• Links to Our Vendors That Support Your International Assignment

  • 1 Expatriate Policy and Procedures Group - The building and maintenance of expatriate policy and procedures
  • 2 McKinley International Risk Mgmt - Expatriate voluntary products like Vacant Homeowners Insurance
  • 3 Accenture - Home and host country international tax filing
  • 4 International Property Insurance Group - International Personal Property & Liability Insurance
  • 5 CIGNA International Expatriate Benefits - Expatriate Medical Insurance
  • 6 AETNA Global Benefits - Expatriate Medical and Dental Insurance
  • 7 MEDEX Assistance - Emergency medical evacuation assistance and 24 hour travel support services
  • 8 FGI International EAP - Host country adaptation, family counseling and cultural training
  • 9 Grabel Relocation Svcs - International relocation and moves
  • 10 XN Financial Services - International moving insurance
  • 11 Baker & McKenzie - Emergency legal assistance. MEDEX can also be a resource for a legal emergency in some situations
  • 12 ADP Payroll Services - International payroll
  • 13 Global Tax Network - International host and home country tax filing
  • 14 American Express Travel - International Flights, Hotels, and Cars
  This is a sample website to highlight the advantages of the Expatriate Communication Portal as a way for an employer to communicate with employees working around the world. No particular insurance companies or service vendors are being endorsed, nor are we being paid to suggest any vendor relationships. Organizations that take advantage of the Expatriate Communication Portal will use it to post their own existing vendor relationships and the companies mentioned here will be removed. Companies used in this sample that support expatriates are free to request that they not be mentioned here, and we will promptly remove the link and the company name.