Reunion travel if you have an eligible person
You’re on a long-term overseas posting to India.
Your partner and child live in Australia.
You can use one benefit for your partner and your child to travel to your location. One benefit is used even though two people are travelling.
To claim the cost of any ground transport, you must take the most efficient and economical means of transport available to and from your reunion benefit location.
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Navigate to the DPN and open a web browser
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Type https://objcdc6/id:BN127994707 into the URL bar at the top of your browser and press the Enter key on your keyboard to automatically download the document
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Navigate to your downloaded files and open the document you just downloaded (note: it may be titled 2026-2027 Defence International Travel Costs Schedule)
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Select the financial year from the tabs at the bottom of the document
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Refer to the instructions at the top of the document
You’re on a long-term overseas posting to Italy. Your partner lives in Canberra.
Defence will pay for your partner to travel to your location in Italy.
When your partner arrives at the airport in Italy, they must take the most efficient and economical means of transport to your posting location, which is a train. Defence may reimburse the train fare.
You’re on a long-term overseas posting to Fiji. Your partner lives in Washington DC, USA.
Defence will pay for your partner to travel from Washington DC to your location in Fiji.
Note that in this situation, Defence will only pay for costs up to what it would have cost to travel from Australia to your location. If the travel costs more than this, you or your dependant will have to pay the difference.
You’re on a long-term overseas posting to Afghanistan. Your partner lives in London.
At the time that you want to organise your reunion travel, your partner is not allowed to come to your posting location. Instead, you decide to reunite with them in Italy, as it’s between your two locations.
In this situation, Defence will only pay for your partner to travel from London to reunite with you in Italy.
You’re on a long-term overseas posting to Jordan. Your partner lives in Denmark.
At the time that you want to organise your reunion travel, your partner is not allowed to come to your posting location.
You can use your benefit to travel to Denmark to reunite with your partner.
In this situation, Defence will pay for your travel as you’re the only one travelling.
You live in your overseas posting location with your recognised partner and dependent child.
Your child’s other parent lives in Australia.
You can use a reunion travel benefit for your child to travel to Australia to visit their other parent.
Reunion travel if you're a Service couple
You’re posted to Jordan.
Your partner is posted to Italy.
Your child is living in Brisbane.
You can use a reunion travel benefit for your child to travel to Italy to visit your partner.
Reunion travel if you don’t have an eligible person
Defence won’t pay for your family, friends or wider support network to visit you in your overseas location.
To claim the cost of any ground transport, you must take the most efficient and economical means of transport available to and from your reunion benefit location.
When you can travel
Apply for reunion travel
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Complete the AD701 form to apply for your travel.
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When the travel is approved, book the tickets yourself.
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Pay for the travel and keep your receipts.
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Send copies of your receipts to your Overseas Administration Team to claim the costs.