[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 20, Volume 2]
[Revised as of April 1, 2004]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 20CFR408.232]

[Page 590]
 
                      TITLE 20--EMPLOYEES' BENEFITS
 
               CHAPTER III--SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION
 
PART 408_SPECIAL BENEFITS FOR CERTAIN WORLD WAR II VETERANS--Table of 
Contents
 
               Subpart B_SVB Qualification and Entitlement
 
Sec. 408.232  When do you lose your foreign resident status?

    (a) General rule. We consider you to have lost or abandoned your 
residence outside the United States if you:
    (1) Enter the United States and stay for more than 1 full calendar 
month (see Sec. 408.234 for exceptions to this rule);
    (2) Tell us that you no longer consider yourself to be residing 
outside the United States; or
    (3) Become eligible (as defined by title XVI) for SSI benefits.
    (b) Resumption of SVB following a period of U.S. residence. Once you 
lose or abandon your residence outside the United States, you cannot 
receive SVB again until you meet all the requirements for SVB 
qualification and reestablish your residence outside the United States.

    Example: You leave your home outside the United States on June 15 to 
visit your son in the United States and return to your home abroad on 
August 15. Your SVB payments will continue for the months of June and 
July. However, because you were in the United States for the entire 
calendar month of July (i.e., all of the first day through all of the 
last day of July), you are not entitled to an SVB payment for the month 
of August. Your SVB payments resume with September, the month you 
reestablished your residence outside the United States.