The guys out there will be falling under his jurisdiction. His take on it is if you get hired to the FDA, which will be a decision made by the bean counters, you will need to live in domicile. Once you have been around the company and know the "system" and have a little judgement on liveing out of domicile you can stray more from that policy. But while on probation it probably won't be a good idea to set yourself up for a fall by trying to commute to asia.