---
kind: "section"
citation: "19 U.S.C. § 4434"
title: "19"
title_heading: "Customs Duties"
number: "4434"
heading: "Lost and stolen passports"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/19/4434"
units:
  - "Chapter 28 — Trade Facilitation and Trade Enforcement"
  - "Subchapter VII — Preclearance Operations"
---

# §4434. Lost and stolen passports


The [Secretary](/usc/19/4431.md?p=2) may not enter into an agreement with the government of a foreign [country](/usc/19/1677.md?p=3) to establish or maintain U.S. Customs and Border Protection preclearance operations at an airport in such [country](/usc/19/1677.md?p=3) unless the [Secretary](/usc/19/4431.md?p=2) certifies to the [appropriate congressional committees](/usc/19/4431.md?p=1) 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](/usc/19/1683.md?p=9) Government through another comparable means of reporting.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 114–125, title VIII, § 816, Feb. 24, 2016, 130 Stat. 220.)