US State Code:United States CodeTITLE 22 - FOREIGN RELATIONS AND INTERCOURSE


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The Secretary of State may grant and issue passports, and cause passports to be granted, issued, and verified in foreign countries by diplomatic and consular officers of the...


No passport shall be granted or issued to or verified for any other persons than those owing allegiance, whether citizens or not, to the United States. ...


Before a passport is issued to any person by or under authority of the United States such person shall subscribe to and submit a written application which shall contain a true...


There shall be collected and paid into the Treasury of the United States a fee, prescribed by the Secretary of State by regulation, for the filing of each application for a...


Whenever a fee is erroneously charged and paid for the issue of a passport to a person who is exempted from the payment of such a fee by section 214 of this title, the Department...


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A passport shall be valid for a period of ten years from the date of issue, except that the Secretary of State may limit the validity of a passport to a period of less than ten...


All persons who shall be authorized to grant, issue, or verify passports, shall make return of the same to the Secretary of State, in such manner and as often as he shall require;...


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As used in this Act - (1) the term ''members of a mission'' means - (A) the head of a mission and those members of a mission who are members of the diplomatic...


With respect to a nonparty to the Vienna Convention, the mission, the members of the mission, their families, and diplomatic couriers shall enjoy the privileges and...


The President may, on the basis of reciprocity and under such terms and conditions as he may determine, specify privileges and immunities for the mission, the members of the...


(a) It is the sense of the Congress that the numbers, status, privileges and immunities, travel, accommodations, and facilities within the United States of official representatives...


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Any action or proceeding brought against an individual who is entitled to immunity with respect to such action or proceeding under the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations,...


(a) Compliance with regulations Each mission, members of the mission and their families, and individuals described in section 19 of the Convention on Privileges and Immunities...


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Whenever it is stipulated by treaty or convention between the United States and any foreign nation that the consul general, consuls, vice consuls, or consular or commercial agents...


In all cases within the purview of section 256 of this title the consul general, consul, or other consular or commercial authority of such foreign nation charged with the...


If, on such examination, it is made to appear that the person so arrested is a citizen of the United States, he shall be forthwith discharged from arrest, and shall be left to...


The district courts and the United States magistrate judges shall have power to carry into effect, according to the true intent and meaning thereof, the award or arbitration or...


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It is declared to be the policy of the United States to adjust and settle its international disputes through mediation or arbitration, to the end that war may be honorably avoided....


The Executive shall not extend or accept any invitation to participate in any international congress, conference, or like event, without first having specific authority of law to...


(a) Prohibition The United States shall not become a party to any new international criminal tribunal, nor give legal effect to the jurisdiction of such a tribunal over any...


All financial contributions by the United States to the normal operations of the international organizations covered by this Act, which member states are obligated to...


No representative of the United States Government in any international organization hereafter shall make any commitment requiring the appropriation of funds for a contribution by...


(a) Congressional findings It is the sense of the Congress that - (1) for humanitarian, economic, and political reasons, it is in the national interest of the United...


(a) Policy goals The United States Government, in connection with its voice and vote in the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the International...


It is the sense of the Congress that, where other means have proven ineffective in promoting international human rights, and except where the President determines that the cause of ...


The President shall direct the United States Executive Directors of such international financial institutions to take all appropriate actions to keep the salaries and benefits of...


The United States Government, in connection with its voice and vote in the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the International Development Association,...


The Congress declares it to be the policy of the United States, in connection with its voice and vote in the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the...


(a) Congressional findings The Congress finds that there is a need for concerted international efforts to deal with the problems of malnutrition, low life expectancy,...


(a) Consultation with representatives of member countries The Secretary of the Treasury shall consult with representatives of other member countries of the International Bank for ...


The Secretary of the Treasury or his designee shall consult with the Chairman and the Ranking Minority Member of - (1) the Committee on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs of the ...


The Secretary of the Treasury shall instruct the United States Executive Directors of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the International...


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(a) Promotion, etc., by United States in connection with international financial institutions The United States Government, in connection with its voice and vote in...


(a) Congressional declaration of intent United States active participation in international financial institution activity is based on our national objective of furthering...


(a) Limitation Beginning three years after September 30, 1996, the Secretary of the Treasury shall instruct the United States Executive Director of each international...


(a) Limitation Beginning 1 year after September 30, 1996, the Secretary of the Treasury shall instruct the United States Executive Director of each international...


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The Congress finds that - (1) United States assistance to the multilateral development banks should promote sustainable use of natural resources and the protection of...


The Secretary of the Treasury and the Secretary of State, in cooperation with the Administrator of the Agency for International Development, shall vigorously promote mechanisms...


(a) Analysis by agencies, United States embassies and overseas missions of Agency for International Development; factors considered; affirmative investigation of...


The Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation with the Secretary of State and the Administrator of the Agency for International Development, shall create a system for...


The Secretary of the Treasury shall instruct the United States Executive Directors of the multilateral development banks to support the strengthening of educational programs...


(a) The Secretary of the Treasury shall instruct the United States Executive Director of each multilateral development bank to vigorously and continuously urge that each bank...


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(a) Assessment required before favorable vote on action (1) In general Beginning 2 years after December 19, 1989, the Secretary of the Treasury shall instruct the...


The Congress hereby finds the following: (1) The financing of certain programs and projects by multilateral development banks has been of great concern insofar as...


The Secretary of the Treasury, after consultations with the Secretary of Agriculture and the Secretary of the Interior (to the extent appropriate) on markets and prices...


(a) The Secretary of the Treasury shall take all appropriate steps to discourage multilateral development banks from financing projects which will result in the production...


The Secretary of the Treasury shall instruct the United States Executive Director at the International Monetary Fund to use aggressively the voice and vote of the United States...


(a) In any negotiations concerning replenishment or an increase in capital for any multilateral development bank, the Secretary of the Treasury shall propose, as a principal point...


(a) Consideration of commitment to achieving certain goals (1) (FOOTNOTE 1) In general (FOOTNOTE 1) So in original. No par. (2) has been enacted. The Secretary of...


(a) In general The Secretary of the Treasury shall instruct the United States Executive Director of the International Monetary Fund to use aggressively the voice and vote of...


(a) Establishment of guidelines; impact statements The Secretary of the Treasury shall instruct the United States Executive Director of the International Bank for Reconstruction and ...


(a) Proposal for establishment; private involvement; projects or policies for alleviation of poverty and promotion of environmental protection The Secretary of...


(a) International Bank for Reconstruction and Development; International Development Association; access of poor to formal sources of credit; identification and removal...


(a) Congressional declaration of policy Congress hereby declares that it is the policy of the United States that multilateral development banks should - (1) fully...


The Secretary of the Treasury shall instruct the United States Executive Director of each multilateral development bank to initiate discussions with other executive directors of the ...


(a) Findings The Congress finds that - (1) the illicit narcotics epidemic currently afflicting the United States represents a direct threat to the well-being of ...


(a) Finding The Congress finds that a principal focus of United States Government policy in the multilateral development banks has been and should be to foster greater...


(a) Findings The Congress finds that - (1) voluntary debt-for-development swaps in heavily indebted developing nations can simultaneously facilitate reduction of the ...


(a) Findings The Congress finds that - (1) the heavy burden of debt borne by sub-Saharan governments undermines efforts by such governments to finance projects and ...


(a) In general The Secretary of the Treasury shall instruct the United States Executive Director of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development to...


(a) Findings The Congress finds that - (1) improvement in the capacity of developing countries to measure and monitor regularly the nutritional and physical ...


(a) Finding The Congress finds that a principal focus of United States Government policy in the multilateral development banks has been and should be to foster greater...


(a) In general The Secretary of the Treasury shall instruct the United States Executive Director for each multilateral development bank to vigorously and continually advocate,...


(a) Directions to United States Executive Directors The Secretary of the Treasury shall direct the United States Executive Directors of the multilateral development banks to - ...


The Secretary of the Treasury shall instruct the United States Executive Director of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development to initiate discussions with the...


The Secretary of the Treasury shall instruct the United States Executive Directors of the multilateral development banks to vigorously promote the adoption of policies and...


(a) In general The Secretary of the Treasury shall instruct the United States Executive Director of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development to propose, and...


The Secretary of the Treasury shall instruct the United States Executive Director of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development to urge the bank to support an...


The Secretary of the Treasury shall instruct the United States Executive Directors of the multilateral development banks and of the International Monetary Fund to use the voices...


The Secretary of the Treasury shall direct the United States Executive Directors of the international financial institutions (as defined in section 262r(c)(2) of this title) and...


(a) The Secretary of the Treasury shall direct the United States Executive Directors of the international financial institutions (as defined in section 262r(c)(2) of this title)...


(a) In general The Secretary of the Treasury shall instruct the United States executive director of each international financial institution to use the voice and vote of...


(a) Action by the President If the President determines that a particular foreign country has taken or has committed to take actions that contribute to efforts of the...


For purposes of this title and titles XIV and XV - (1) the term ''multilateral development bank'' means the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the ...


(a) Improvement of the HIPC Initiative In order to accelerate multilateral debt relief and promote human and economic development and poverty alleviation in heavily indebted...


The Secretary of the Treasury shall instruct the United States Executive Directors at the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (World Bank) and the...


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(a) In general The Chairman shall report annually to the Speaker of the House of Representatives, the President of the Senate, and to the President of the United States on...


The Secretary of the Treasury shall transmit to the Congress, on a monthly basis, current copies of the Monthly Operating Summary of the International Bank for Reconstruction...


Not later than April 1 and October 1 of each year, the Administrator of the Agency for International Development, in consultation with the Secretary of the Treasury and the...


(a) In general The Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation with the Secretary of Commerce and other appropriate Federal agencies, shall prepare reports on the implementation...


(a) Reports Not later than October 1 of each year, the Secretary of the Treasury shall submit to the Committees on Banking and Financial Services and on Ways and Means of...


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(a) Annual report on financial operations Beginning 180 days after the date of enactment of this Act (November 6, 2000), or October 31, 2000, whichever is later, and on October...


(a) Executive Directors The Secretary of the Treasury shall instruct the United States Executive Director of each multilateral development bank to attach a high priority...


The Secretary of the Treasury shall instruct the United States Executive Directors of the multilateral development institutions to take all possible steps to ensure that...


(a) Appointment of Commercial Service Officers to serve with Executive Directors The Secretary of Commerce, in consultation with the Secretary of the Treasury, shall appoint...


(a) Statement of policy It shall be the policy of the United States that no initiatives, discussions, or recommendations concerning the placement or removal of any...


The United States shall continue as an adhering member of the International Prison Commission and participate in the work of said commission. The Secretary of the Treasury...


The Attorney General is authorized to accept and maintain, on behalf of the United States, membership in the International Criminal Police Organization, and to designate...


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The sum of $3,000 a year is authorized to be appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the support and maintenance of the permanent...


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The duly appointed representative of the United States on the permanent commission of the International Geodetic Association is granted authority to vote with the representatives...


The President is authorized to appoint delegates, who shall be officers of the National Ocean Survey, to attend the meetings of the International Geodetic Association whenever...


The President of the United States is requested to invite the Government of Great Britain to join in the formation of an international commission, to be composed of three members...


The salaries of the members on the part of the United States, of the International Joint Commission, established under the treaty of January 11, 1909, between the United States...


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Advances of money under the appropriation ''Boundary line, Alaska and Canada, and the United States and Canada'', may be made to the commissioner on the part of the United States...


Funds appropriated on and after September 30, 1996, or otherwise made available under this Act or any other Act may be expended for compensation of the United States Commissioner...


The President is authorized to maintain membership of the United States in the Permanent International Association of Road Congresses. ...


There is hereby authorized to be appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, an annual sum of $50 as a contribution on the part of the United...


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There is hereby authorized to be appropriated, out of any sums in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, sums not exceeding $2,500 per annum to enable the United States to...


To enable the United States to become an adhering member of the Inter American Statistical Institute, there is hereby authorized to be appropriated annually, out of any money in...


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Funds appropriated to the Secretary of State for ''International Organizations and Conferences'' shall be available for the payment by the United States of its proportionate share...


The President is hereby authorized to accept membership for the Government of the United States in (1) the Hague Conference on Private International Law and (2) the...


There are authorized to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary for the payment by the United States of its proportionate share of the expenses of the Hague Conference...


There is hereby authorized to be appropriated annually to the Department of State such sums as may be necessary, including contributions pursuant to the convention of July 5,...


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The President is authorized to accept membership for the Government of the United States of America in the International Labor Organization, which, through its general conference of ...


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There is hereby authorized to be appropriated annually to the Department of State - (a) such sums as may be necessary for the payments by the United States of its share...


No person shall serve as representative, delegate, or alternate from the United States until such person has been investigated as to loyalty and security by the Director of the...


In order to meet the obligations of the United States as a member of the Pan American Institute of Geography and History, there are authorized to be appropriated to the Department...


There is hereby authorized to be appropriated, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of State, in paying the annual share of the United States as an adhering member...


(a) Congressional findings The Congress hereby finds and declares that the international biological program, which was established under the auspices of the International...


(a) Full cooperation with international biological program The Congress calls upon all Federal departments and agencies and other persons and organizations, both public and...


To enable the United States to become a member of the International Hydrographic Bureau, and for the first annual contribution of the United States toward the creation and ...


Not to exceed $45,000 annually of the funds appropriated for rivers and harbors shall be available for the support and maintenance of the Permanent International Commission of the ...


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On and after June 30, 1958, Senate delegates to Conferences of the Interparliamentary Union shall be designated by the Presiding Officer of the Senate. Not less than two Senators...


Each chairman or senior member of the House of Representatives and Senate group or delegation of the United States group or delegation to the Interparliamentary Union, the...


Notwithstanding the provisions of any other law, the Executive Directors and Directors and their alternates, representing the United States in the International Monetary Fund,...


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Not less than 180 days after October 28, 1991, and each year thereafter, the Secretary of State shall submit a report to the Congress concerning each international organization...


Not to exceed twenty-four Members of Congress shall be appointed to meet jointly and at least annually and when Congress is not in session (except that this restriction shall...


An appropriation of $150,000 annually is authorized, $75,000 of which shall be for the House delegation and $75,000 for the Senate delegation, or so much thereof as may be...


The United States group of the Canada-United States Interparliamentary group shall submit to the Congress a report for each fiscal year for which an appropriation is made...


The certificate of the Chairman of the House delegation or the Senate delegation of the Canada-United States Interparliamentary group shall hereafter be final and conclusive upon...


Not to exceed twenty-four Members of Congress shall be appointed to meet jointly and at least annually with representatives of the Chamber of Deputies and Chamber of Senators of...


An appropriation of $120,000 annually is authorized, $60,000 of which shall be for the House delegation and $60,000 for the Senate delegation, or so much thereof as may be...


The United States group of the Mexico-United States Interparliamentary group shall submit to the Congress a report for each fiscal year for which an appropriation is made...


The certificate of the Chairman of the House delegation or the Senate delegation of the Mexico-United States Interparliamentary group shall on and after April 9, 1960 be final...


(a) Establishment and meetings Not to exceed 24 Members of Congress shall be appointed to meet annually and when the Congress is not in session (except that this restriction...


(a) Establishment In accordance with the allocation of seats to the United States in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in...


There is established in the Department of the Army a board to be known as the Trustees of the Kermit Roosevelt Fund, whose duty it shall be properly to administer all money...


The board is authorized to accept from Mrs. Kermit Roosevelt such money and property as she may tender, to receipt therefor on behalf of the United States, and to deposit the funds...


The board is also authorized to accept, receive, hold, and administer gifts, bequests and devises of money, securities, or other property, whether real or personal, from any...


The income from any property held or administered by the board, as and when collected, shall be deposited in the Treasury of the United States to the credit of the trust...


The board shall have all the usual powers of a trustee in respect to all property administered by it, but the members of the board shall not be personally liable, except...


The President is authorized to designate the American Commissioner on the International Boundary Commission, United States and Mexico, or other Federal agency, to cooperate with a ...


The Secretary of State, acting through the American Commissioner, International Boundary Commission, United States and Mexico, is further authorized to conduct technical and...


(a) Construction, operation, maintenance, and supervision; sewage interceptor system The President is further authorized (1) to construct any project or works which may...


In order to carry out the provisions of sections 277 to 277d of this title, the President, or any Federal agency he may designate is authorized, (a) in his discretion, to enter...


Any moneys contributed by or received from the United Mexican States for the purpose of cooperating or assisting in carrying out the provisions of sections 277 to 277d of this...


The Secretary of State, acting through the United States Commissioner, International Boundary and Water Commission, United States and Mexico (herein referred to as...


The United States Commissioner is authorized to construct, equip, and operate and maintain all access roads, highways, railways, power lines, buildings, and facilities necessary...


There are authorized to be appropriated to the Department of State for the use of the Commission, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, such sums as may...


The United States Commissioner, in order to comply with the provisions of articles 12 and 23 of the treaty of February 3, 1944, between the United States and Mexico, relating to...


Funds heretofore appropriated to the Department of State under the heading ''International Boundary and Water Commission, United States and Mexico'' shall be available for...


The Secretary of State is authorized, notwithstanding any other provision of law and subject to the conditions provided in this section and section 277d-7 of this title, to enter...


There is authorized to be appropriated to the United States Section, International Boundary and Water Commission, United States and Mexico, such sums as may be necessary to...


The Secretary of State is authorized, subject to the conditions provided in this section and section 277d-9 of this title, to enter into an agreement with the appropriate official...


There is authorized to be appropriated to the United States section, International Boundary and Water Commission, United States and Mexico, such sums as may be necessary to...


The Secretary of State is authorized, notwithstanding any other provision of law and subject to the conditions provided in this section and section 277d-11 of this title, to...


There is authorized to be appropriated to the United States section, International Boundary and Water Commission, United States and Mexico, such sums as may be necessary to...


On and after June 20, 1956, in addition to the funds available under the appropriation ''Rio Grande emergency flood protection'', the United States Commissioner is authorized...


The Secretary of State, acting through the United States Commissioner, International Boundary and Water Commission, United States and Mexico, is hereby authorized to conclude...


If agreement is concluded pursuant to section 277d-13 of this title for the construction of a major international storage dam the Secretary of State, acting through the United...


If a dam is constructed pursuant to an agreement concluded under the authorization granted by section 277d-13 of this title, its operation for conservation and release of...