The international prisoner transfer process begins with a request from either the prisoner or the prisoner’s country; however, oftentimes, it is the prisoner that indicates their interest to transfer back to their home country. The prisoner in federal prison must first contact his case manager at the Federal Bureau of Prisoners (“BPO”) facility where the prisoner is serving his sentence. The case manager will then prepare a transfer application package that expresses the prisoner’s interest in transferring. After the case is reviewed and forwarded to the BOP’s Central Office, it is thereafter sent to the IPTU.