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• Your stay in the US is under 39 weeks.
• You do not seek to move your entire household belongings back to the US (as indicated by asking to reimburse moving expenses).
• Your work is focused on international duties.
• MTD, furlough, recruiting, representing your ministry to US constituents, doing work for ministry in your international location at a distance, etc.
• You do not take a role with regular work in a US location during your stay    This isn't entirely true - let's re-word.  MTD is a regular duty. Some do pastoral work.   However getting paid by another employer could be problematic?  Let's check rules again.  
• Regular work and duties include things like an on-going part-time pastoral role, a coffee bar barista, anything with regular hours and regular on-going duties. 
• It does NOT include speaking at conferences, attending conferences, coaching potential missionaries, pursuing studies, and other things that are related to ministry in your international location, or MTD or things that expand your work or capacity to do work in your international location. 

If you do have a furlough longer than six months and  do indeed want to maintain your foreign status, please let us know the following:

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