§302-3.501. Establishment of policies when appointing an employee to an overseas assignment.

Establish the employee's actual place of residence at the time of appointment and state it in the service agreement;

Use guidance in 8 U.S.C. 1101(a)(33) for establishing places of residence;

Require the employee to sign the service agreement prior to the relocation;

Pay transportation expenses for one-way return travel of immediate family members when the employee has successfully completed the service agreement period OCONUS;

Determine when the public interest requires the return of the immediate family for compelling personal reasons of a humanitarian or compassionate nature; and

Pay for return travel and transportation of an employee only once at the end of each agreed period of service.