---
kind: "section"
citation: "41 C.F.R. § 302-3.501"
title: "41"
number: "302-3.501"
heading: "Establishment of policies when appointing an employee to an overseas assignment."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/41/302-3.501"
---

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


When appointing an employee to an overseas assignment, agencies must:

- (a) Establish the employee's actual place of residence at the time of appointment and state it in the service agreement;
- (b) Use guidance in [8 U.S.C. 1101(a)(33)](/usc/8/1101.md?p=a-33) for establishing places of residence;
- (c) Require the employee to sign the service agreement prior to the relocation;
- (d) Pay transportation expenses for one-way return travel of immediate family members when the employee has successfully completed the service agreement period OCONUS;
- (e) Determine when the public interest requires the return of the immediate family for compelling personal reasons of a humanitarian or compassionate nature; and
- (f) Pay for return travel and transportation of an employee only once at the end of each agreed period of service.

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 5 U.S.C. 5738; 20 U.S.C. 905(a).

### Source

Source: FTR Case 2025-05, 90 FR 56893, Dec. 8, 2025, unless otherwise noted.