Local Employment Policy Handbook - ICASS

3. Personal Relationships Established After the Foreign, Civil, or Uniformed Service Member Arrives at
the Mission
If a direct hire Foreign, Civil, or uniformed service member officially assigned to the Mission and under
Chief of Mission authority or an office of the AIT enters into a relationship with a current LE Staff
employee (host country national, or other Ordinarily Resident) within the Mission, or a host country
national or Ordinarily Resident outside of the Mission, that results in either marriage or the official
declaration of the individual as a Member of Household, then the individual remains Ordinarily Resident
for purposes of employment until the sponsoring officer permanently departs post. This includes
instances when the individual obtains status as an Eligible Family Member while the sponsoring officer is
still assigned to the Mission.
There is no exception to this policy.
HR is reminded that relationships established between a direct hire Foreign, Civil, or uniformed service
members officially assigned to the Mission and under COM authority or an office at the AIT and a current
LE Staff employee may require conducting a nepotism review either at post or from HR/OE. See 5 USC
311 and 3 FAM 8300.
4. Dual Citizenship
If an individual has dual citizenship and one of them is US, the US Government always recognizes the US
citizenship first.