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B-201888 1 (1982-02-19)

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CECISION




FILe; B-20188B


MATTER


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DATEi ebruary 19,


OF: Tegualda onreal,
    Return to Country


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1982


M.D. - Ttme Limitition on
of Residiace


DIGEST:


In order for employee to be reimbursed
expenses incident to return travel to
former place of residence, travol must be
clearly incidental to separation and should
commence within reasonable time thereafter.
However, where employee was off ially
advised that she had unqualified.2-year
period in which to egercise retu'n rights
and where she can demonstrate inability
to return contemporaneous with separation
to country of permanent residence, due to
external political circumstances beyond
her control, her entitlement to tr~avel
and transportation benefits back to
country of permanent residence wan pre-
served, Since return travel was
completed in requisite 2-year period and
delay in returning was due to cir(vum-
stances beyond her control, payment is
authorized.


     This decision is in response to a let-ter from
Dr. Tegualda Monreal, a ft)rmer visitingu sentist with
the Center for Disease Co.itrol (CDC), Public Health
Service, Department of Health and Human Services, in
which she appeals part of our Claims Group settlement
certificate Z-2812490, dated September 5, 1980. The
settlement authorized reimbursement of per diem for
the period she spent in Lima, Peru, in 1977 awaiting
renewal of her U.S. visa. However, it disallowed
Dr. Monreal's claim for travel expenses and transpor-
tation of household goods for return travel to Santiago,
Chile, after separation for the reason that her return
travel was not clearly incidental to her separation as
required by 52 Comp. Gen. 407 and 28 Comp. Gen. 285.


     For the reasons stated below,
our Claims Group is reversed.


the disallowance


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