{"data":{"id":"us/41-cfr-302-3.501","jurisdiction":"us","citation":"41 CFR 302-3.501","heading":"-3.501 Establishment of policies when appointing an employee to an overseas assignment.","body":"When appointing an employee to an overseas assignment, agencies must:\n(a) Establish the employee's actual place of residence at the time of appointment and state it in the service agreement;\n(b) Use guidance in 8 U.S.C. 1101(a)(33) for establishing places of residence;\n(c) Require the employee to sign the service agreement prior to the relocation;\n(d) Pay transportation expenses for one-way return travel of immediate family members when the employee has successfully completed the service agreement period OCONUS;\n(e) Determine when the public interest requires the return of the immediate family for compelling personal reasons of a humanitarian or compassionate nature; and\n(f) Pay for return travel and transportation of an employee only once at the end of each agreed period of service.","path":["Title 41—Public Contracts and Property Management","Subtitle F—Federal Travel Regulation System","CHAPTER 302—RELOCATION ALLOWANCES","SUBCHAPTER B—RELOCATION ALLOWANCES","PART 302-3—RELOCATION ALLOWANCE BY SPECIFIC TYPE","Subpart F—Agency Responsibilities"],"source_url":"https://www.ecfr.gov/api/versioner/v1/full/2026-08-25/title-41.xml","current_through":"2026-08-25","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-08-27T02:26:05Z","sha256":"aabfd12ba4d546ba6089263fdc022276a785e93ebea81e22d724ef92150ebd54","source_id":"us-cfr","stale":true,"prev":"us/41-cfr-302-3.500","next":"us/41-cfr-302-3.502"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}