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Citizenship Field

Can I ask visitors about their citizenship status if I need to meet ITAR regulations or have international visitors?

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Written by Rain Hyneman
Updated over 5 months ago

Want an easy way to collect visitor citizenship information? Want to know if your visitors are citizens at a glance? This field makes it easy!

Adding A Citizenship Field

Like adding any Visitor Field to The Receptionist, adding a Citizenship field is quick and easy! Start with Buttons page of the web portal. Select 'Existing Buttons' and then click to edit your check-in button. Scroll down to the Visitor Fields section. Click on the "Add A Field" button to add a new field and select Citizenship Field.

A gift of the Visitor Fields section of the Button Editing screen of the web portal. The "Add A Field" button is pressed, and "Citizenship Field" is selected from the dropdown.

Once the button has a Citizenship field, you can select the country you want to ask visitors if they belong to.

An image of a check-in field on the iPad reading "Are you a citizen?" There are large buttons reading "No" and "Yes."

This information will be visible in any email, text, or Slack notifications that a contact receives, logged with their information in your visitor log, and displayed on a visitor badge.

Displaying Citizenship on Visitor Badges

We've made it easy to distinguish, at a glance, non-citizens by their badge printout. All non-citizen badges can include your choice of a diagonal bar or a triangle in either corner along the top or bottom of their badge printout. If you are using badges and want to turn this feature on, edit the button in question, scroll down the Badge Printing section, and toggle on the "Citizenship" label attribute as shown below.

A gif of the Badge Printing section of the Button Editing page. The citizenship field is toggled on and then edited to alter how citizenship is reflected on the badge.

At this time, we do not integrate with software or services that allow us to reject or flag visitors based on their responses to visitor fields.

Have questions or want to chat through options? Click on that orange chat button in the lower right corner to livechat with a member of The Receptionist team!

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