---
kind: "section"
citation: "22 U.S.C. § 1643m"
title: "22"
title_heading: "Foreign Relations and Intercourse"
number: "1643m"
heading: "Exclusivity of Foreign Claims Settlement Commission certification procedure"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/22/1643m"
units:
  - "Chapter 21 — Settlement of International Claims"
  - "Subchapter V — Claims Against Cuba and China"
---

# §1643m. Exclusivity of Foreign Claims Settlement Commission certification procedure

- (a) Subject to [subsection (b)](#b), neither any [national of the United States](/usc/22/1643a.md?p=1) who was eligible to file a claim under [section 1643b of this title](/usc/22/1643b.md) but did not timely file such claim under that section, nor any person who was ineligible to file a claim under [section 1643b of this title](/usc/22/1643b.md), nor any national of Cuba, including any agency, instrumentality, subdivision, or enterprise of the [Government of Cuba](/usc/22/1643a.md?p=4) or any local [government of Cuba](/usc/22/1643a.md?p=4), nor any successor thereto, whether or not recognized by the United States, shall have a claim to, participate in, or otherwise have an interest in, the compensation proceeds or nonmonetary compensation paid or allocated to a [national of the United States](/usc/22/1643a.md?p=1) by virtue of a claim certified by the [Commission](/usc/22/1643a.md?p=2) under [section 1643f of this title](/usc/22/1643f.md), nor shall any district court of the United States have jurisdiction to adjudicate any such claim.
- (b) Nothing in [subsection (a)](#a) shall be construed to detract from or otherwise affect any rights in the shares of capital stock of nationals of the United States owning claims certified by the [Commission](/usc/22/1643a.md?p=2) under [section 1643f of this title](/usc/22/1643f.md).

## Source credit

(Mar. 10, 1950, ch. 54, title V, § 515, as added Pub. L. 104–114, title III, § 304, Mar. 12, 1996, 110 Stat. 821.)

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

Section effective Aug. 1, 1996, or date determined pursuant to suspension authority of President, see section 6085 of this title.