# Rise (رايز)

> Rise is restricted in Syria, as of 2026-09-01.

- Status: restricted
- Outreach: Declined
- Company: [Rise Works](https://unblocksyria.com/en/companies/rise-works.md)
- Categories: HR & Payroll, Payment Services
- Official site: https://www.riseworks.io
- Community votes: 2
- Last updated: 2026-09-01
- Page: https://unblocksyria.com/en/services/rise-works

## About

Global payroll and contractor compliance platform with employer-of-record services, paying teams in local currencies or stablecoins

## Activity summary

Restricted for users in Syria and declined in September 2026. Rise support told a community volunteer that its services are unavailable there with no timeframe for change, and said the reasons are sensitive and held by its compliance team, so no basis for the restriction was given.

## Community reports

- 2026-09-01 — Declined. Rise declined a community volunteer's request to review its Syria restriction. A named member of its support team replied that the company's services are not available in Syria and that it is unable to provide them there, adding that Rise may become available in the future but that there is no specific timeframe. The reply went further than most refusals in one respect: it stated that the reasons for the restriction are sensitive, are managed by the company's compliance team, and that no further detail could be shared. That leaves the standing question unanswered, since no regulation, banking partner or internal policy was named as the basis.

## Context

These are geo-restrictions the companies applied themselves, not filtering by Syrian ISPs and not a legal requirement. US and EU sanctions on Syria were lifted in 2025. See https://unblocksyria.com/llms.txt for the regulatory summary and https://unblocksyria.com/en/about for citations to the specific orders and regulations.

## Machine-readable

- JSON: https://api.unblocksyria.com/services/rise-works?locale=en
- Timeline JSON: https://api.unblocksyria.com/services/rise-works/timeline?locale=en
- HTML: https://unblocksyria.com/en/services/rise-works
- Other languages: https://unblocksyria.com/ar/services/rise-works.md, https://unblocksyria.com/ku/services/rise-works.md