---
kind: "section"
citation: "22 U.S.C. § 1645b"
title: "22"
title_heading: "Foreign Relations and Intercourse"
number: "1645b"
heading: "Receipt and determination of claims; notice by publication in Federal Register"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/22/1645b"
units:
  - "Chapter 21 — Settlement of International Claims"
  - "Subchapter VII — Claims Against Vietnam"
---

# §1645b. Receipt and determination of claims; notice by publication in Federal Register


The [Commission](/usc/22/1643a.md?p=2) shall receive and determine in accordance with applicable substantive law, including international law, the validity and amounts of claims by nationals of the United States against [Vietnam](/usc/22/1645a.md?p=4) arising on or after April 29, 1975, for losses incurred as a result of the nationalization, expropriation, or other taking of (or special measures directed against) [property](/usc/22/1643a.md?p=3) which, at the time of such nationalization, expropriation, or other taking, was owned wholly or partially, directly or indirectly, by nationals of the United States to whom no restoration or adequate compensation for such [property](/usc/22/1643a.md?p=3) has been made. Such claims must be submitted to the [Commission](/usc/22/1643a.md?p=2) within the period specified by the [Commission](/usc/22/1643a.md?p=2) by notice published in the Federal Register (which period shall not be more than a period of two years beginning on the date of such publication) within sixty days after December 28, 1980, or of legislation making appropriations to the [Commission](/usc/22/1643a.md?p=2) for payment of administrative expenses incurred in carrying out its functions under this subchapter, whichever date is later.


## Source credit

(Mar. 10, 1950, ch. 54, title VII, § 703, as added Pub. L. 96–606, Dec. 28, 1980, 94 Stat. 3535.)