§3494 Certification of Genuineness of Foreign Document

Summary

If a consular officer, after hearing all testimony, finds a foreign document to be genuine, the officer must certify it as genuine, seal it, and include a statement that he is not disqualified under the rules for that commission. The officer must then mail the certified document, the testimony record, and the executed commission to the clerk of the court that issued the commission in the usual official way. The court clerk will open the package, let the parties in the criminal case look at the documents and testimony, and give them copies for free.