Title 19 — Customs Duties
Chapter 28 — Trade Facilitation and Trade Enforcement
§ 4434. Lost and stolen passports
Statutory text
The Secretary may not enter into an agreement with the government of a foreign country to establish or maintain U.S. Customs and Border Protection preclearance operations at an airport in such country unless the Secretary certifies to the appropriate congressional committees that such government—
routinely submits information about lost and stolen passports of its citizens and nationals to INTERPOL’s Stolen and Lost Travel Document database; or
makes such information available to the United States Government through another comparable means of reporting.
Legislative history
Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.
Preclearance Authorization Act of 2015
Pub. L. 114–125 title VIII § 816 · 130 Stat. 122
Enacted · 19 U.S.C. § 4434
(Pub. L. 114–125, title VIII, § 816, Feb. 24, 2016, 130 Stat. 220.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Pub. L. 114–125, title VIII, § 816, Feb. 24, 2016, 130 Stat. 220.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
SEC. 816. LOST AND STOLEN PASSPORTS. The Secretary Certification. may not enter into an agreement with the government of a foreign country to establish or maintain U.S. Customs and Border Protection preclearance operations at an airport in such country unless the Secretary certifies to the appropriate congressional committees that such government— (1) routinely submits information about lost and stolen passports of its citizens and nationals to INTERPOL’s Stolen and Lost Travel Document database; or (2) makes such information available to the United States Government through another comparable means of reporting.
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