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B-190831 1 (1978-03-27)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadfuu0001 and id is 1 raw text is: FILE: B-19 MATTER OF DIGEST: 0831 THE COMPTROLLER DENERAL CP THE UNITED *TATEU WASHINGON. D.C. *054U DATE: March 27, 1978 : Kzu Higuchi - Reimbursement of passport fees 1. Section 71a of titia 31, United States Code (Supp. V, 1975), states that every claim or demand cognizable by the General Account- ing Office Is forever .arred unless it is received in GAO within 6 years after the date the claim first accrued. Therefore, that portion of claim for rAimbursement of passport fees in-. curred in 1965 and 1971, which was received December 6, 1977, may not be considered. 2. Local hire employee in Japan, who has no, oversea:ztransportation agreement, claims reimbursement of fee to obtain. pasnpor- thowing her status as United States employee. Record does not show that she was officially required to renew her passport. Also, Agree- ment Regarding Status of United Nations Forces in Japan does not require passport to reflect status of person who is ordinarily resident of Japan and record does not indicate claimant is not ordinarily resident ot Japan. Therefore, claim is not within pur- view of 52 Comp. Gen. 177 and may not be paid. This actirn concerns the request of Captain E. R. Tibbetta, USAF, a United States Air Force accounting and finance officer, for an advance decision pursuant to 31 U.S.C. 74 (1970). The request was forwarded on December 5, 1977, to this Office by the Pt Diem, Travel and Traneportation Allaance Committee. The case, which was assigned PDTATAC Control No. 77-J5, is the claim of Mrs. Kazu Higuchi, apparently an American citizen, for reimbursement of passport fees paid in 1965, 1970, and 1975. The act of October 9, 1940, 54 Stat. 1061, as amended by Public Law 93-604, approved January 2, 1975, 31-U.S.C. 71a (Supp. V, 1975) states that every *laim or demand cognizable by the Cene'al ii DECISION!.' . LL_

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