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title: "22 U.S.C. § 9112"
description: "Standards and assistance"
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title_number: 22
title_name: "FOREIGN RELATIONS AND INTERCOURSE"
chapter_number: "98"
chapter_name: "INTERNATIONAL CHILD ABDUCTION PREVENTION AND RETURN"
section: "9112"
citation: "22 U.S.C. § 9112"
status: "current"
release_point: "119-100"
release_date: "2026-06-26"
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# 22 U.S.C. § 9112 - Standards and assistance

## Text

The Secretary of State shall—

(1) ensure that United States diplomatic and consular missions abroad—

(A) maintain a consistent reporting standard with respect to abduction and access cases;

(B) designate at least 1 senior official in each such mission, at the discretion of the Chief of Mission, to assist left-behind parents from the United States who are visiting such country or otherwise seeking to resolve abduction or access cases; and

(C) monitor developments in abduction and access cases; and

(2) develop and implement written strategic plans for engagement with any Convention or non-Convention country in which there are 5 or more cases of international child abduction.

(Pub. L. 113–150, title I, § 102, Aug. 8, 2014, 128 Stat. 1815.)