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22 U.S.C. § 2277a

Targeted sanctions to fight corruption in El Salvador, Guatemala,,11 So in original. Honduras, and Nicaragua

United States · Title 22 — FOREIGN RELATIONS AND INTERCOURSE · Status: effective

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22 U.S.C. § 2277a, Targeted sanctions to fight corruption in El Salvador, Guatemala,,11 So in original. Honduras, and Nicaragua, United States, version 1 as recorded 2026-07-09, yourstate.us, https://yourstate.us/provision/456533
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It is the sense of Congress that— Not later than 180 days after December 27, 2020, and not less frequently than annually thereafter, the President shall submit to the appropriate congressional committees an unclassified report with classified annex if necessary that identifies each foreign person who the President determines to have knowingly engaged in actions that undermine democratic processes or institutions, or in significant corruption or obstruction of investigations into such acts of corruption in El Salvador, Guatemala,,1 Honduras, and Nicaragua, including the following: The President shall impose the sanctions described in subsection (d) with respect to each foreign person identified in the report required under subsection (b). The sanctions described in this subsection are the following: In the case of a foreign person who is an individual, such foreign person is— The issuing consular officer or the Secretary of State, (or a designee of the Secretary of State) shall, in accordance with section 221(i) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1201(i)), revoke any visa or other entry documentation issued to a foreign person regardless of when the visa or other entry documentation is issued. A revocation under clause (i) shall— Sanctions under subparagraph (B) and (C) 22 So in original. Probably should be “subparagraphs (A) and (B)”. of paragraph (1) shall not apply with respect to a foreign person if admitting or paroling such person into the United States is necessary to permit the United States to comply with the Agreement regarding the Headquarters of the United Nations, signed at Lake Success June 26, 1947, and entered into force November 21, 1947, between the United Nations and the United States, or other applicable international obligations. The President may waive the application of the sanctions under subsection (c) 33 So in original. Probably should be “subsection (d)”. if the President— The authority to impose sanctions under subsection (b),44 So in original. Probably should be “subsection (c),”. and any sanctions imposed pursuant to such authority, shall expire on the date that is 3 years after December 27, 2020. The unclassified portion of the report required by subsection (b) shall be made available to the public, including through publication in the Federal Register. In any case in which the President concludes that such publication would be harmful to the national security of the United States, only a statement that a determination or finding has been made by the President, including the name and section of the Act under which it was made, shall be published. In this section, the term “appropriate congressional committees” means—

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  • Enacted byPub. L. 116-260(H.R. 133)2020-12-27
    Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021
    House: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally
  • Amended byPub. L. 117-54(S. 1064)2021-11-10
    RENACER Act
    House: 387–35Senate: no recorded tally