Start here if you have been told to submit DD Form 1614. First, know what you are filling: Request/Authorization for DoD Civilian Permanent Duty or Temporary Change of Station (TCS) Travel. The document is titled DD Form 1614, Request/Authorization for DoD Civilian Permanent Duty or Temporary Change of Station Travel, May 2003.
Then look at the edition date: not stated, publisher status not stated. After that, ask whether the form covers your situation. It almost certainly does regardless of your branch — DD forms run Department-wide rather than through a single service.
After that, turn to timing. The requirement comes from not stated; the form is maintained by not stated. Local implementing instructions fill in the dates, so check with the office that will receive your copy.
Before you download, pick your approach — editable file or printed page. What follows covers the formats first, then the entries, then what you do afterward.
Begin at the top and move down. Enter your identifying data first, then the body of the form, then the signature block. The sequence is printed in that order because entries below frequently follow from entries above.
Your first action is verification. Find the edition date on the form and match it against not stated. A mismatch means you are working from a superseded printing, and because DD forms change Department-wide rather than service by service, the office receiving it will notice.
Look up an unclear item on the form face before anywhere else, then in not stated. Should the two texts conflict, the directive is the one you follow.
Download the form
Step one is picking the format. You have PDF to choose from, across 2 pages, with approximately 78 fields to complete.
Handle xfdl in two steps. First confirm you have IBM Lotus Forms Viewer or a compatible reader on your machine; ordinary pdf software will report the file as broken. Once the viewer is running, download and fill the form.
Whichever you pick, you pay nothing — every format here is a free download. One last tip: open your pdf in a desktop reader rather than in a browser tab, because browser viewers sometimes drop the interactive fields you need.
What the form asks for
- Section 1 - Request for official travel. 1. Date. Four digit year, two digit month, two digit day, no separators.
- 3. Social Security Number. Do not include dashes.
- 2. Name (Last, first, middle).
- 4. New Position Title.
- 5. Grade or Rating.
- 6. Retirement Code (from Block 30 of employee's most recent SF-50).
- 7. Releasing Official Station and Location, or Actual Residence.
- 8. New Official Station and Location, Actual Residence or Alternate Destination.
- 9. Reporting Date at new Duty Station (four digit year, two digit month, two digit day).
- 10. Travel purpose. Press space bar to mark X in first box if between official stations, second box if renewal agreement, third box if return from overseas for separation, fourth box if temporary change of station, or fifth box if other.
- If other, explain.
- 11. Transportation mode. X if government.
- X if commercial.
- X if privately owned conveyance.
- X if rail.
- X if air.
- Mileage Rate, in dollars and cents per mile.
- 12.a. Per diem for employee? X first box if yes, second box if no.
- b. Per diem for dependent(s)? X first box if yes, second box if no.
- 13.a. Round trip travel for house-hunting? X first box if yes, second box if no.
- X if actual expense.
- X if fixed expense.
- 13.b. Number of days (including travel).
- 14.a. Temporary quarters subsistence expense? X first box if yes, second box if no.
Submit the completed form through the channel not stated or your local guidance specifies. Save a copy for yourself before it leaves your hands, whether that means a scan, a photograph or a duplicate file.
Should you need a related form, look it up by its number. The DD sequence is Department-wide, which makes your search simple: no service qualifier, no branch-specific variant to track down.
Be careful when a procedure pairs this form with a service form. Read the prefix, not just the digits. Service forms answer to a service proponent, while DD forms answer to not stated or an equivalent Department office, and the two sequences were never aligned. Grabbing the wrong prefix gets you a form that has nothing to do with your task.
Plan to repeat this step whenever the form comes up again. Revisions follow directive changes, changes in what data is collected, and updates to notice language. Since nobody notifies you, check not stated at download and you have covered it.
One thing this page does not do: tell you whether your submission will be accepted. We publish the document and explain how to complete it, and that is where our role ends. Nothing here is legal advice. Take questions about eligibility, applicability or procedure to not stated, to your servicing personnel office, or to the office named in not stated.
Questions and answers
- What is DD Form 1614?
- DD Form 1614, Request/Authorization for DoD Civilian Permanent Duty or Temporary Change of Station Travel, May 2003
- Which edition is current?
- Not stated by the publisher
- Who is responsible for this form?
- Not stated
- In which formats can it be downloaded?