Dominique Strauss-Kahn was given back his passport Thursday, his legal team said, clearing the way for the former IMF head to travel abroad for the first time since his arrest three months ago on sex crime charges.

“I can confirm that the New York Police Department and the Office of the District Attorney returned Mr. Strauss-Kahn’s passport,” Shawn Naunton, from the French politician’s legal team, said after a brief visit to his house in Manhattan.