Relocation Assistance

Your Military and Family Support Center provides relocation assistance to help make PCS moves as smooth as possible. Resources include:

• PCS planning: Most relocation assistance programs offer consultations to help you with the moving process. If this your first military move, your first time moving overseas or you have challenging or complex circumstances contact your installation Relocation Assistance Program as soon as possible for support.
• Plan My Move: An online Defense Department relocation tool that provides you with customizable checklists and links to helpful resources for the tasks ahead.
• Military OneSource: A website and call center that offer 24/7 support for moving information and resources. Learn more about PCS basics and download this fact sheet 7 Steps to Make Your Household Goods Move a Smart Move. For comprehensive moving resources and information, including Defense Personal Property log in details, visit Moving Your Personal Property.
• Workshops and briefings: Workshops vary by location. You may find classes on housing options, moving with children, moving with pets and more.
• Predeparture briefings: These sessions provide essential information about your move and may be required for some populations.
• Special needs: If you have a child or family member enrolled in the Exceptional Family Member Program, contact your installation EFMP-Family Support office to assist you.
• Settling-in services: Look for welcome programs or local area tours that may be offered. Overseas services may include introductory language classes and cultural awareness activities.
• Foreign-born spouse support: Assistance includes information and referral to resources such as immigration and naturalization.
• Emergency assistance: Sometime emergencies occur while moving. The Military and Family Support Center has the resources to provide emergency financial assistance, as well as information and referrals.
• Authorized housing flexibility options: Eligible service members with PCS orders may be entitled to flexibilities such as extended stays in government housing and early housing eligibility. Contact your military personnel office for more information.
• Spouse licensure reimbursement: Your service branch may reimburse spouses up to $1,000 for relicensure and certification costs resulting from relocations or PCS moves. See this Military OneSource article Transferring Your Professional License for more information and specific service branch policies.

If you need any assistance contact the Military Personnel Section, 011-82-63-470-7308 or DSN 315-782-7308, or the Military and Family Readiness Center, Relocation Assistance Manager at 011-82 -63-470-5644 or DSN 315-782-5644. Kunsan is a remote duty station and does not have a loan closet. However, the local Kunsan AB 5/6 organization staffs an Airman's Attic located in building 1104 behind AAFES in the LG Daecom bldg.

Installation Specific Information

This section provides information on the helping agencies on Kunsan AB and the facilities you can use during your stay.

There are a number of other agencies on base that manage various aspects of your relocation.

Unaccompanied Housing is provided for unaccompanied Airmen of all ranks. Each Airman is provided a private sleeping room, furnishings and supplies required for comfortable living. (Room arrangements may vary depending on location and rank). The permanent party UH campus at Kunsan AB consists of single rooms that share a bathroom, single rooms that share a kitchen and a bathroom, and a Quad-Style configuration that share a kitchen but have individual bathrooms. For more information on Unaccompanied Housing please call DSN: 315-782-7070 or COMM: 063-470-7079.

Kunsan’s Transportation Management Office is ready and available to assist with your personal property movement needs. Technicians are available to lend a hand with:

• Clarify entitlements
• Update customer records
• Arrange for delivery of your shipment
• Change delivery dates
• Trace your shipment (locate your property)
• Privately owned vehicle guidance
• Non-Temporary (Permanent) storage guidance on extending/releasing property
• Claims guidance/points of contact
• Furnish documentation (GBL's/Inventories)
• Provide Carrier/Agent contact information
• Time Limit Extension guidance

For more information of assistance with your PCS needs, please call DS: 315-782-8381/4844 or COMM: 063-470-4844/8381.

The Military Personnel Flight provides a variety of services to active duty and retired military, reservists, civilian employees, and families. The flight includes the following offices: Customer Support (ID cards), Career Development, Force Management, Retentions, and Passports. For more information, please call DSN: 315-782-7220 of COMM: 063-470-7220.

Official Passport

Your Official No-Fee Passport is for Official Travel such as PCS, TDY, or travel between Korea and the U.S. Before traveling to Korea, inbound DoD civilian who are U.S. citizens must apply for a No-Fee Passport at a Military Passport Office (or www.travel.state.gov) at your losing base. Non-U.S. citizens must apply for a country of origin passport.

Take the following original or certified documents to your passport appointment:

• Military ID Card & PCS Orders
• DoD Member’s ID (Color Copy of Front & Back)
• Form DS-11 or Form DS-82 (with Passport)
• Proof of Citizenship (Birth Certificate, Naturalization, or Citizenship Certificate)
• Proof of Name Change Documents (Marriage/Divorce Decrees)
• 2 Recent Passport Photos
• Most Recent (Current and/or Expired) Passports. The process can take 8 or more weeks, so begin as soon as possible. For more information contact your local passport office.
• A-3 Visa

If arriving on the Patriot Express, civilian employees will take their passports to the Korean Immigration Services office located in the AMC Passenger Terminal to obtain their SOFA stamp and A-3 Visa. If arriving at Incheon civilian employees will take their passports to the Jeonju Immigration Office in Gunsan located at 151 daehak-ro gunsan-si jellabuk-do.

Tourist Passport

Tourist Passports are required for leisure travel outside of the U.S., as well as travel throughout Asia once you arrive in Korea. It can take up to 8 weeks to process a Tourist Passport in Korea. Apply for a Tourist Passport prior to leaving the U.S. to avoid delays in travel! Once in Korea, Tourist Passports are obtained through the U.S. Embassy

Apply for Tourist Passports at any U.S. Post Office or visit www.travel.state.gov   Members are responsible for fees incurred to obtain a tourist passport.

Kunsan Passport Office.

Passport are processed at Kunsan every Thursday on a walk-in basis. For an official or no-fee passport, please make an appointment by email at: 51fss.passport@us.af.mil

For other inquiries, such as out-processing, please email MPF with PCS order so that we can clear in vMPF and provide them a passport memo in a timely manner.

Hours of Operation: Monday through Friday 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. 

MPF is closed for Wing Training Days, Down Days, exercises, and holidays.