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B-199532 1 (1980-08-21)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadimu0001 and id is 1 raw text is: 0ILER THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL DECISION OF THE UNITED BTATES WASHINGTON. 0.C. 20548 FILE: B-19952 DATE A *1*-.. 6 lno -- - UgUS L L. ±7 V MATTER OF: Nereida M. Vazquez - Home leave o o 031 Department of State Foreign Service 9 (C )003 employee requests home leave in Panama Canal Zone. Home leave may not be author- ized in Canal Zone since home leave may only be granted in continental United States or its territories and possessions and Panama Canal Treaty of 1977, effective October 1, 1979, provides that Republic of Panama has full sovereignty over Canal Zone. Since home leave for purposes of re-Americanization is compulsory under 22 U.S.C. 1148, employee should designate an appropriate location for this purpose. The Department of State requests a decision regarding whether one of its Foreign Service personnel serving over- seas, Nereida M. Vazquez, may take home leave in the Panama Canal Zone. Since home leave may only be authorized in the United States or its territories and possessions, Ms. Vazquez may not be authorized home leave in the Canal Zone which became part of the Republic of Panama under the Panama Canal Treaty of 1977, effective October 1, 1979. She must, however, be granted home leave in an appropriate place within the United States or its territories and possessions. On or about January 3, 1978, Ms. Vazquez became an employee of the Department of State, Foreign Service. Prior to reporting to-her overseas duty post in Rome, Italy, she filled out a Department of State biographical data form indicating, among other things, that her legal residence at the time of employment was Arlington, Virginia; her home leave residence would be the Panama Canal Zone; and her residence for service separation would be Washington, D.C., or Arlington, Virginia. The record reveals that Ms.' Vazquez' designation of the Panama Canal Zone for home leave was because she was born there and lived there with her immediate family until she attended college in the Washington, D.C.,area and subse- quently became an employee of the Department of State. '4 DIGEST:

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