Title 22 — Foreign Relations and IntercourseRelease 119-73

§2734e Annual Report

Title 22 › Chapter CHAPTER 38— - DEPARTMENT OF STATE › § 2734e

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

Not later than 90 days after December 27, 2021, and annually after that, the Secretary of State must send a report to the House Committees on Foreign Affairs and Appropriations and the Senate Committees on Foreign Relations and Appropriations. The report must explain why the Department uses assignment restrictions and include case studies showing they help counterintelligence beyond security clearances. It must give the number of employees with restrictions last year, broken down by job status (Foreign Service officer, civil service employee, eligible family member, or other), by ethnicity/national origin/race, by gender, and by the country of restriction. It must describe the Bureau of Diplomatic Security’s rules for choosing restrictions, state how many restrictions were appealed and how many appeals succeeded, show the effect on unused language skills using Foreign Service Institute language scores, and describe steps and data about diversity among adjudicators and contracted investigators.

Full Legal Text

Title 22, §2734e

Foreign Relations and Intercourse — Source: USLM XML via OLRC

Not later than 90 days after December 27, 2021, and annually thereafter, the Secretary of State shall submit to the Committee on Foreign Affairs and the Committee on Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Foreign Relations and the Committee on Appropriations of the Senate a report that contains the following:

(1)A rationale for the use of assignment restrictions by the Department of State, including specific case studies related to cleared United States Foreign Service and civil service employees of the Department that demonstrate country-specific restrictions serve a counterintelligence role beyond that which is already covered by the security clearance process.

(2)The number of such Department employees subject to assignment restrictions over the previous year, with data disaggregated by—

(A)identification as a Foreign Service officer, civil service employee, eligible family member, or other employment status;

(B)the ethnicity, national origin, and race of the precluded employee;

(C)gender; and

(D)the country of restriction.

(3)A description of the considerations and criteria used by the Bureau of Diplomatic Security to determine whether an assignment restriction is warranted.

(4)The number of restrictions that were appealed and the success rate of such appeals.

(5)The impact of assignment restrictions in terms of unused language skills as measured by Foreign Service Institute language scores of such precluded employees.

(6)Measures taken to ensure the diversity of adjudicators and contracted investigators, with accompanying data on results.

Reference

Citations & Metadata

Citation

22 U.S.C. § 2734e

Title 22 — Foreign Relations and Intercourse

Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

Release point: 119-73