---
kind: "section"
citation: "41 C.F.R. § 302-5.5"
title: "41"
number: "302-5.5"
heading: "Timeframe for completion of the househunting trip."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/41/302-5.5"
---

# §302-5.5. Timeframe for completion of the househunting trip.


The househunting trip must be completed as follows:

- (a) **For the employee—** the day before reporting to the new Official station.
- (b) **For the spouse or domestic partner—** the earlier of:
  - (1) The day before the family relocates to the new Official station; or
  - (2) **The day before the maximum time for beginning allowable travel expires.**

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 5 U.S.C. 5738; 20 U.S.C. 905(a); E.O. 11609, 36 FR 13747, 3 CFR, 1971-1975 Comp., p. 586.

### Source

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