How to Get and Complete NAVPERS 1300/16: Deadlines, EFMP, and Waivers

NAVPERS 1300/16, the Report of Suitability for Overseas and Remote Duty Assignments, is the form your commanding officer signs to certify that you and your dependents are cleared for an overseas or designated remote assignment. It sits at the center of a screening packet that also includes medical, dental, and educational reviews for every family member making the move. Your command must start the process within three business days of you receiving orders, and everything is tracked and submitted through BUPERS Online (BOL).

Who Needs to Complete the Screening

Every sailor receiving orders to an overseas location or a designated remote duty station within the United States has to complete NAVPERS 1300/16. That covers CONUS to OCONUS, OCONUS to OCONUS, and CONUS to remote CONUS moves. You and your dependents cannot transfer until screening is finished and official area clearance is issued.¹

Alaska and Hawaii are generally exempt. The two exceptions: an assignment to a location within those states designated as remote, or any family member enrolled in the Exceptional Family Member Program.² Remote CONUS locations that do require screening include Kodiak, Bridgeport, San Clemente Island, San Nicholas Island, Key West, Barking Sands, Fallon, and Sugar Grove.³

Key Deadlines

The clock starts when you receive transfer orders or a letter of intent from Flag Matters. The screening has to be initiated within three business days.² After that:

Service members on unaccompanied orders: full screening completed within 30 days.
Dependents: family member screening completed within 60 days of the service member receiving orders.
Accompanied orders overall: the full packet for member and dependents completed within 60 days.

Your CO must provide a suitability determination to Navy Personnel Command and the gaining command within 30 calendar days.⁴ Once complete, the screening is valid for one year, unless your circumstances change in a way that affects suitability.²

Getting the Form and Completing Part I

The current revision (Rev. 07-2024) is on the MyNavy HR forms library.⁵ Your Command Career Counselor or local Personnel Office can also hand you one. The form has two parts: Part I is the command review; Part II connects to the medical and dental screening on NAVMED 1300/1. Complete Part I and secure any needed waivers before starting Part II.⁶

Part I asks for your personal identification data, dependent information, and the precise location and Unit Identification Code of the gaining command. The command review portion involves a records review and a personal interview to determine whether you and your dependents fit the proposed location. Every entry must match your official personnel records; discrepancies will bounce the form back. Your CO also has to verify that enlisted members carry enough obligated service to complete the tour length.³

The commanding officer signs the finished form. The CO’s determination draws on medical status, the command review of all suitability factors under MILPERSMAN 1300-302, and any other reliable information from the chain of command, the chaplain, the family advocacy representative, or the command financial specialist.³

Medical, Dental, and Educational Screening

NAVMED 1300/1 is a mandatory companion form. It must be completed for you and every dependent traveling with you.¹ The medical portion involves an interview with a medical screener and a full review of medical records for the service member and each family member. Immunizations, recent physicals, and current treatment needs are all checked against what the gaining location can actually support.

Dental readiness is scored in four classes, and only Classes 1 and 2 are considered worldwide deployable:

Class 1: no dental treatment or re-evaluation needed within the next 12 months.
Class 2: needs non-urgent treatment or re-evaluation, but the condition is unlikely to cause a dental emergency within 12 months.
Class 3: needs urgent or emergent treatment for a condition with high potential to cause a dental emergency within 12 months. Not deployable.
Class 4: no current dental exam on file, or the record does not exist or is not held by the responsible dental activity. Not deployable.

If anyone on the packet lands in Class 3 or 4, screening cannot be finalized until that person improves to at least Class 2.⁷

For dependents receiving special education services or early intervention, add DD Form 2792-1, the Special Education/Early Intervention Summary.⁸ It documents the child’s current Individualized Education Program and lets the gaining location determine whether it can provide comparable services. If the destination cannot, the screening comes back unsuitable.

EFMP Enrollment Comes First

If any family member has a medical or educational condition needing specialized services, enrollment in the Exceptional Family Member Program is required before you can submit the overseas screening packet. EFMP enrollment runs through your local military treatment facility.⁹ The category assigned shapes where you can be sent:

Category 1: enrolled for monitoring, no assignment restrictions.
Category 2: no CONUS restrictions; OCONUS and remote assignments may be restricted if the location cannot support the condition. Family must pass suitability screening.
Category 3: no CONUS restrictions, but no overseas assignments.
Category 4: no overseas assignments; CONUS limited to billets within a two-hour drive of specialty care at a military or civilian TRICARE facility.
Category 5: homestead assignment, tied to a specific geographic location for continuity of care. Relocation may still be requested if continuity of care can be maintained at the new site.
Category 6: temporary, six months to one year, for a condition needing a stable environment during treatment or diagnostic assessment. Must be updated to a permanent category or disenrollment within a year.

Category 3 or higher effectively rules out an accompanied overseas tour. Unaccompanied orders remain possible while the family stays at a stateside location.⁹

Other Factors That Can Sink the Screening

The determination is not only about health. Your CO must decide whether you or your dependents carry any performance, disciplinary, financial, psychological, or other issues that would keep you from serving as a worthy representative of the United States abroad.⁴ Several specific triggers:

Financial instability. For E-4 and below, a debt-to-income ratio of 30 percent or greater is an automatic unsuitability finding.²
Legal and disciplinary matters. Pending court cases, NJP history, and substance abuse issues all factor in. Legal-related waivers must route through the region Staff Judge Advocate to the gaining command for Status of Forces Agreement compliance.¹
Pregnancy. Women in the third trimester are not transferred overseas. Pregnant E-3 and junior single sailors are automatically unsuitable for OCONUS assignment.²
Insufficient obligated service. Enlisted members need enough contract time left to serve the full tour.

Withholding disqualifying information during screening, or failing to report a change in your status afterward, can result in disciplinary action under UCMJ Article 107.² If anything changes between screening and transfer, your command must hold your orders and notify the detailer.³

Submitting Through BUPERS Online

All overseas screening actions are processed and tracked through BOL.⁴ Once the form is complete and the CO has signed, your command enters the pending and final suitability determination in BOL.³ Your Command Career Counselor or Personnel Office does the actual submission. Your job is to make sure every signature is present and every screening is done before they hit send.

The supporting documents (NAVMED 1300/1, DD Form 2792-1 if it applies, and any waiver justifications) travel with the NAVPERS 1300/16. Because the packet holds sensitive personal and medical data, delivery normally goes through secure channels. Some commands may want you to hand-carry physical copies to the personnel department, but the BOL entry is what officially advances the screening.

What Suitable and Unsuitable Mean

A “Suitable” finding releases your Permanent Change of Station orders. That is the green light for household goods shipments, travel bookings, and the rest of the move logistics. The determination goes to both the gaining and losing commands through official Navy message traffic.

An “Unsuitable” finding holds your orders. You cannot transfer until the disqualifying issue is resolved or a waiver is approved.¹ Your detailer is notified and starts looking for a different assignment that fits your family’s situation.

Waivers and Medical Reconsideration

An unsuitability finding does not automatically kill the assignment. If your CO believes the transfer should still happen, the command submits an unsuitability report through BOL with justification and amplifying comments recommending a waiver. The CO has no waiver authority. That belongs to NAVPERSCOM.¹

Routing depends on why you were found unsuitable. Fitness report and evaluation issues, and non-drug NJPs, route through the gaining command CO and are approved by the appropriate detailing division director. Legal matters (including child custody), drug or alcohol NJPs, and dependent issues involving drugs, alcohol, or criminal matters route through the region SJA to the gaining command and are approved by the Assistant Commander NAVPERSCOM for Career Management (PERS-4). For a drug or alcohol NJP, the service member must have successfully completed treatment and aftercare. If a waiver is approved, the transferring command updates BOL to “suitable” and enters the approver’s name, title, and approval date in the comments.¹

Medical or dental unsuitability follows a different track. A separate reconsideration process exists, and the unsuitable notification must include guidance on how to start it.¹⁰ Educational suitability sits on yet another track: reconsiderations for educational matters are directed by DoDEA Headquarters, not through the Navy medical reconsideration process. The specific timeline for a medical reconsideration request lives in the enclosures to BUMED Notice 1300; the publicly available text does not state an exact number of days.

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MyNavy HR. MILPERSMAN 1300-304 – Suitability for Overseas Assignment Screening and Reporting
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Department of the Navy. NAVPERS 1300/16 – Report of Suitability for Overseas and Remote Duty Assignments
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