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LegalText 18 U.S.C. § 3494 Certification of genuineness of foreign document us united_states_code code_section 18 CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE 223 WITNESSES AND EVIDENCE 3494 18 U.S.C. § 3494 current 119-100 2026-06-26 official https://uscode.house.gov/download/releasepoints/us/pl/119/100/xml_usc18@119-100.zip /us/usc/t18/s3494 data/legal/raw/us/code/title-18/usc18.xml c80bb1ff7b17c0f18cb238ba2ae557b8d8d8f8450782e857951d7af4362f7551 1a1bbbbdb59e376ada4eb7ad1056fd68d396679ee7ab59f0561af15006122708 6e2eaa4ce808710d0f853371038762812088897aeb532c243062dc419c82d46d 2026-07-04 official
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18 U.S.C. § 3494 - Certification of genuineness of foreign document

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If the consular officer executing any commission authorized under section 3492 of this title shall be satisfied, upon all the testimony taken, that a foreign document is genuine, he shall certify such document to be genuine under the seal of his office. Such certification shall include a statement that he is not subject to disqualification under the provisions of section 3492 of this title. He shall thereupon transmit, by mail, such foreign documents, together with the record of all testimony taken and the commission which has been executed, to the clerk of the court from which such commission issued, in the manner in which his official dispatches are transmitted to the Government. The clerk receiving any executed commission shall open it and shall make any foreign documents and record of testimony, transmitted with such commission, available for inspection by the parties to the criminal action or proceeding in which such documents are to be used, and said parties shall be furnished copies of such documents free of charge.

(June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 835.)

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Historical and Revision NotesBased on section 695d of title 28, U.S.C., 1940 ed., Judicial Code and Judiciary (June 20, 1936, ch. 640, § 5, 49 Stat. 1563).