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Title 22, Foreign Relations and IntercourseRelease 119-102

§1643m Exclusivity of Foreign Claims Settlement Commission Certification Procedure

Title 22 › CHAPTER 21 — SETTLEMENT OF INTERNATIONAL CLAIMS › SUBCHAPTER V — CLAIMS AGAINST CUBA AND CHINA › § 1643m

Last updated Aug 21, 2026|Official source

Summary

Only people with claims certified by the Commission can get or share the money or non-money awards tied to those certified claims. U.S. citizens who missed the filing deadline, people not allowed to file, Cuban nationals (including Cuban government bodies or their successors) cannot claim an interest, and U.S. district courts cannot hear such claims. This does not change the rights of U.S. nationals to own shares of capital stock tied to certified claims.

Full Legal Text

Title 22, §1643m

Foreign Relations and Intercourse, Source: USLM XML via OLRC

(a)Subject to subsection (b), neither any national of the United States who was eligible to file a claim under section 1643b of this title but did not timely file such claim under that section, nor any person who was ineligible to file a claim under section 1643b of this title, nor any national of Cuba, including any agency, instrumentality, subdivision, or enterprise of the Government of Cuba or any local government of Cuba, nor any successor thereto, whether or not recognized by the United States, shall have a claim to, participate in, or otherwise have an interest in, the compensation proceeds or nonmonetary compensation paid or allocated to a national of the United States by virtue of a claim certified by the Commission under section 1643f of this title, nor shall any district court of the United States have jurisdiction to adjudicate any such claim.
(b)Nothing in subsection (a) shall be construed to detract from or otherwise affect any rights in the shares of capital stock of nationals of the United States owning claims certified by the Commission under section 1643f of this title.

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Effective Date

Section effective Aug. 1, 1996, or date determined pursuant to suspension authority of President, see section 6085 of this title.

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Citation

22 U.S.C. § 1643m

Title 22, Foreign Relations and Intercourse

Last Updated

Aug 21, 2026

Release point: 119-102