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[CITE: 8USC1353]

 
                     TITLE 8--ALIENS AND NATIONALITY
 
                 CHAPTER 12--IMMIGRATION AND NATIONALITY
 
                       SUBCHAPTER II--IMMIGRATION
 
                         Part IX--Miscellaneous
 
Sec. 1353. Travel expenses and expense of transporting remains 
        of officers and employees dying outside of United States
        
    When officers, inspectors, or other employees of the Service are 
ordered to perform duties in a foreign country, or are transferred from 
one station to another, in the United States or in a foreign country, or 
while performing duties in any foreign country become eligible for 
voluntary retirement and return to the United States, they shall be 
allowed their traveling expenses in accordance with such regulations as 
the Attorney General may deem advisable, and they may also be allowed, 
within the discretion and under written orders of the Attorney General, 
the expenses incurred for the transfer of their wives and dependent 
children, their household effects and other personal property, including 
the expenses for packing, crating, freight, unpacking, temporary 
storage, and drayage thereof in accordance with subchapter II of chapter 
57 of title 5. The expense of transporting the remains of such officers, 
inspectors, or other employees who die while in, or in transit to, a 
foreign country in the discharge of their official duties, to their 
former homes in this country for interment, and the ordinary and 
necessary expenses of such interment and of preparation for shipment, 
are authorized to be paid on the written order of the Attorney General.

(June 27, 1952, ch. 477, title II, ch. 9, Sec. 283, 66 Stat. 231; Pub. 
L. 100-525, Sec. 9(p), Oct. 24, 1988, 102 Stat. 2621.)


                               Amendments

    1988--Pub. L. 100-525 substituted ``subchapter II of chapter 57 of 
title 5'' for ``the Act of August 2, 1946 (60 Stat. 806; 5 U.S.C., sec. 
73b-1)''.
