---
kind: "section"
citation: "22 C.F.R. § 92.86"
title: "22"
number: "92.86"
heading: "Consular responsibility for serving subpoenas."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/22/92.86"
---

# §92.86. Consular responsibility for serving subpoenas.


When directed by the Department of State, officers of the Foreign Service will serve a subpoena issued by a court of the United States on a national or resident of the United States who is in a foreign country unless such action is prohibited by the law of the foreign country.


## Notes

### Amendments

[32 FR 11776, Aug. 16, 1967]

### Authority

Authority: 22 U.S.C. 2651a, 2656, 4215 and 4221.

### Source

Source: 22 FR 10858, Dec. 27, 1957, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[32 FR 11776, Aug. 16, 1967]