---
kind: "section"
citation: "11 U.S.C. § 1513"
title: "11"
title_heading: "Bankruptcy"
number: "1513"
heading: "Access of foreign creditors to a case under this title"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/11/1513"
units:
  - "Chapter 15 — Ancillary and Other Cross-Border Cases"
  - "Subchapter II — Access of Foreign Representatives and Creditors to the Court"
---

# §1513. Access of foreign creditors to a case under this title

- (a) Foreign [creditors](/usc/11/101.md?p=10) have the same rights regarding the commencement of, and participation in, a case under this title as domestic [creditors](/usc/11/101.md?p=10).
- (b)
  - (1) [Subsection (a)](#a) does not change or codify present law as to the priority of [claims](/usc/11/101.md?p=5) under section [507](/usc/11/507.md) or [726](/usc/11/726.md), except that the [claim](/usc/11/101.md?p=5) of a foreign [creditor](/usc/11/101.md?p=10) under those sections shall not be given a lower priority than that of general unsecured [claims](/usc/11/101.md?p=5) without priority solely because the holder of such [claim](/usc/11/101.md?p=5) is a foreign [creditor](/usc/11/101.md?p=10).
  - (2)
    - (A) [Subsection (a)](#a) and [paragraph (1)](#b-1) do not change or codify present law as to the allowability of foreign revenue [claims](/usc/11/101.md?p=5) or other foreign public law [claims](/usc/11/101.md?p=5) in a proceeding under this title.
    - (B) Allowance and priority as to a foreign tax [claim](/usc/11/101.md?p=5) or other foreign public law [claim](/usc/11/101.md?p=5) shall be governed by any applicable tax treaty of the [United States](/usc/11/101.md?p=55), under the conditions and circumstances specified therein.

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 109–8, title VIII, § 801(a), Apr. 20, 2005, 119 Stat. 138.)

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

Section effective 180 days after Apr. 20, 2005, and not applicable with respect to cases commenced under this title before such effective date, except as otherwise provided, see section 1501 of Pub. L. 109–8, set out as an Effective Date of 2005 Amendment note under section 101 of this title.