Title 22, Foreign Relations and IntercourseRelease 119-110

§7717 Personnel Outside the United States

Title 22 › CHAPTER 84 — MILLENNIUM CHALLENGE › § 7717

Last updated Sep 22, 2026|Official source

Summary

Employees of the Corporation, including people detailed to it or hired by contract, may be assigned to U.S. embassies, consulates, or USAID field missions abroad. The Secretary of State must try to get these employees and their family members the same diplomatic privileges and legal protections given to Foreign Service members of similar rank and pay while they work outside the United States, if they and their family are not citizens or permanent residents of the host country. While working abroad under that same condition, they and their family members are also subject to section 3927 of this title like other U.S. government employees.

Full Legal Text

Title 22, §7717

Foreign Relations and Intercourse, Source: USLM XML via OLRC

(a)Assignment to United States embassies

An employee of the Corporation, including an individual detailed to or contracted by the Corporation, may be assigned to a United States diplomatic mission or consular post or a United States Agency for International Development field mission.

(b)Privileges and immunities

The Secretary of State shall seek to ensure that an employee of the Corporation, including an individual detailed to or contracted by the Corporation, and the members of the family of such employee, while the employee is performing duties in any country or place outside the United States, enjoy the privileges and immunities that are enjoyed by a member of the Foreign Service, or the family of a member of the Foreign Service, as appropriate, of comparable rank and salary of such employee, if such employee or a member of the family of such employee is not a national of or permanently resident in such country or place.

(c)Responsibility of chief of mission

An employee of the Corporation, including an individual detailed to or contracted by the Corporation, and a member of the family of such employee, shall be subject to section 3927 of this title in the same manner as United States Government employees while the employee is performing duties in any country or place outside the United States if such employee or member of the family of such employee is not a national of or permanently resident in such country or place.

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Citation

22 U.S.C. § 7717

Title 22, Foreign Relations and Intercourse

Last Updated

Sep 22, 2026

Release point: 119-110