§2734e Annual Report

Summary

Not later than 90 days after December 27, 2021, and every year 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, with specific case studies of cleared Foreign Service and civil service employees showing country-based restrictions do counterintelligence work beyond security clearances. It must list how many employees had restrictions in the past year, broken down by job type (Foreign Service officer, civil service employee, eligible family member, or other), by ethnicity/national origin/race, by gender, and by country of restriction. The report must describe the Bureau of Diplomatic Security’s rules and factors for placing restrictions, say 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 on making adjudicators and contracted investigators more diverse.