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Title 22 — Foreign Relations and IntercourseRelease 119-73

§7104e Preventing future trafficking in the United States through receipt of complaints abroad

Title 22 › Chapter CHAPTER 78— - TRAFFICKING VICTIMS PROTECTION › § 7104e

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

U.S. embassies, consulates, and missions must pick one employee to take reports from people who were victims of severe trafficking in the United States, or from anyone who has information about such victims ("severe trafficking" means serious human trafficking). The reports must be sent to the Department of Justice, Department of Labor, Department of Homeland Security, and other federal agencies, which must create a way to respond. With the victim’s permission and without putting them at risk, the assigned employee can work with the victim’s home country or local groups to get extra help.

Full Legal Text

Title 22, §7104e

Foreign Relations and Intercourse — Source: USLM XML via OLRC

(a)The Secretary of State shall ensure that each diplomatic or consular post or other mission designates an employee to be responsible for receiving information from—
(1)any person who was a victim of a severe form of trafficking in persons (as such term is defined in section 7102(14) 11 See References in Text note below. of this title) while present in the United States; or
(2)any person who has information regarding a victim described in paragraph (1).
(b)Any information received pursuant to subsection (a) shall be transmitted to the Department of Justice, the Department of Labor, the Department of Homeland Security, and to any other relevant Federal agency for appropriate response. The Attorney General, the Secretary of Labor, the Secretary of Homeland Security, and the head of any other such relevant Federal agency shall establish a process to address any actions to be taken in response to such information.
(c)The employee designated for receiving information pursuant to subsection (a) should coordinate with foreign governments or civil society organizations in the countries of origin of victims of severe forms of trafficking in persons, with the permission of and without compromising the safety of such victims, to ensure that such victims receive any additional support available.

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

References in Text

section 7102(14) of this title, referred to in subsec. (a)(1), was redesignated section 7102(16) of this title by Pub. L. 115–427, § 2(1), Jan. 9, 2019, 132 Stat. 5503. Codification Section was enacted as part of the Frederick Douglass Trafficking Victims Prevention and Protection Reauthorization Act of 2018, and not as part of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 which comprises this chapter.

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Citation

22 U.S.C. § 7104e

Title 22 — Foreign Relations and Intercourse

Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

Release point: 119-73