---
kind: "section"
citation: "22 U.S.C. § 1641e"
title: "22"
title_heading: "Foreign Relations and Intercourse"
number: "1641e"
heading: "Filing of claims; notice in Federal Register"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/22/1641e"
units:
  - "Chapter 21 — Settlement of International Claims"
  - "Subchapter III — Claims Against Bulgaria, Hungary, Rumania, Italy, and the Soviet Union"
---

# §1641e. Filing of claims; notice in Federal Register

- (a) **Time period—** Within sixty days after August 9, 1955, or within sixty days after the date of enactment of legislation making appropriations to the [Commission](/usc/22/1641.md?p=8) for payment of administrative expenses incurred in carrying out its functions under paragraph (1), (2), or (3) of [section 1641b of this title](/usc/22/1641b.md), whichever date is later, the [Commission](/usc/22/1641.md?p=8) shall publish in the Federal Register the time when and the limit of time within which claims may be filed under paragraph (1), (2), or (3) of [section 1641b of this title](/usc/22/1641b.md), which limit shall not be more than one year after such publication, except that with respect to claims under [section 1641d of this title](/usc/22/1641d.md) this limit shall not exceed six months.
- (b) **Property taken in Bulgaria and Rumania—** Within thirty days after July 24, 1968, or the enactment of legislation making appropriations to the [Commission](/usc/22/1641.md?p=8) for payment of administrative expenses incurred in carrying out its functions under paragraph (4) of [section 1641b of this title](/usc/22/1641b.md), whichever is later, the [Commission](/usc/22/1641.md?p=8) shall publish in the Federal Register the time when and the limit of time within which claims may be filed under paragraph (4) of [section 1641b of this title](/usc/22/1641b.md), which limit shall not be more than six months after such publication.
- (c) **Property taken in Hungary—** Within thirty days after October 20, 1974, or thirty days after enactment of legislation making appropriations to the [Commission](/usc/22/1641.md?p=8) for payment of administrative expenses incurred in carrying out its functions under paragraph (5) of [section 1641b of this title](/usc/22/1641b.md), whichever date is later, the [Commission](/usc/22/1641.md?p=8) shall publish in the Federal Register the time when, and the limit of time within which, claims may be filed with the [Commission](/usc/22/1641.md?p=8) under paragraph (5) of [section 1641b of this title](/usc/22/1641b.md), which limit shall not be more than six months after such publication.
- (d) **Failure to receive notice on Hungarian claims—** Notwithstanding any other provision of this section, any [national of the United States](/usc/22/1641.md?p=2) who was mailed notice by any department or agency of the Government of the [United States](/usc/22/1621.md?p=b) with respect to filing a claim against the Government of Hungary arising out of any of the failures referred to in paragraph (1), (2), or (3) of [section 1641b of this title](/usc/22/1641b.md), and who did not receive the notice as the result of administrative error in placing a nonexistent address on the notice, may file with the [Commission](/usc/22/1641.md?p=8) a claim under any such paragraph. The [Commission](/usc/22/1641.md?p=8) shall publish in the Federal Register, within thirty days after October 20, 1974, when the limit of time within which any such claim may be filed with the [Commission](/usc/22/1641.md?p=8), which limit shall not be more than six months after such publication.

## Source credit

(Mar. 10, 1950, ch. 54, title III, § 306, as added Aug. 9, 1955, ch. 645, § 3, 69 Stat. 572; amended Pub. L. 90–421, § 1(12), July 24, 1968, 82 Stat. 423; Pub. L. 93–460, § 1(4), Oct. 20, 1974, 88 Stat. 1386.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1974—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 93–460, § 1(4)(A), substituted “paragraph (1), (2), or (3) of section 1641b of this title” for “this subchapter”.

Subsecs. (c), (d). Pub. L. 93–460, § 1(4)(B), added subsecs. (c) and (d).

1968—Pub. L. 90–421 designated existing provisions as subsec. (a) and added subsec. (b).