Garnish wages of Overseas Federal Employees

[BIGA]

I am thinking about taking a job as an overseas US DoD employee. I owe enough to declare BKK but since I have been living outside of the US working for foreign employers I have simply ignored things.

How is this going to work if I take a federal job?
Am I opening myself up to garnishments?
Will they find out about me right away?

Should I declare BKK in the interim between the old job ending with the foreign employer and prior to starting with the new US employer abroad?

[lrprn]

The situation you are asking about is a very unusual one. Have you maintained a residence connection in the US? How long have you been overseas? Do you intend to return to the US at some point in the future?

[BIGA]

Thanks for responding lrprn,

I have been gone for five years now, go back occasionally (4 times in 5 years), keep my Federal taxes current and keep a residence connection (address only, no assets). I got in trouble going on 3 years ago with my foreign former wife who was quite a but younger than me turned out to be rather untrustworthy or at least questionable with alot of things, money, debit card, gambling problem, our child etc. She eventually left.

I am since divorced and now remarried and both childen live with me. I have a decent job now and am getting by,(not getting ahead) but have not been paying on my unsecured debt of 133K or so, not sure off hand exactly maybe more plus I have student loans of about that much also which has helped to subsidize me getting through some past tough times. I will go into repayment later this year.

I took the Wisconsin (not my state) means test on here from one of your contributors using my foreign salary and I'm in the red (I have to pay for kids school if I want them Western Educated, its not free) but don't know how it actually will work with me being overseas working, or if it even counts in my situation.

I could maybe line up the federal position, let my contact run out, go back to the US for few months declare BKK b4 leaving to go back and start the federal job assuming I can get myself set-up to be hired a couple months later.

I could stay with my present employer (Foreign) but the oportunity (Fed job) is actually better pay, benefits, schooling provided etc.

Now that I have lived overseas I'm not sure if I ever want to live in the US again. Visting is fine enough for me. Maybe If I can clear up my credit enough living in the US would be an option. My current wife who is foreign has lived and worked in the US before and she like I think living in the US is a rat race that can be avoided.