Regulations last checked for updates: May 23, 2025

Title 22 - Foreign Relations last revised: Jan 17, 2025
§ 150.2 - Determination by the Department of State.

The question of whether any particular person enjoys diplomatic agent-level immunity and is therefore not subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, or whether they enjoy lesser status-based immunity, on any particular date entails both factual and legal analysis, and is determined by the Department of State, in accordance with relevant international and domestic law.

authority: 22 U.S.C. 2651a,2656; 22 U.S.C. 254c; Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, Done at Vienna April 18, 1961, 23 U.S.T. 3227; Vienna Convention on Consular Relations, Done at Vienna April 24, 1963, 21 U.S.T. 77; Convention on the Privileges and Immunities of the United Nations, 21 U.S.T. 1418
source: 89 FR 68780, Aug. 28, 2024, unless otherwise noted.
cite as: 22 CFR 150.2