---
kind: "section"
citation: "22 U.S.C. § 2521"
title: "22"
title_heading: "Foreign Relations and Intercourse"
number: "2521"
heading: "Foreign language proficiency"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/22/2521"
units:
  - "Chapter 34 — The Peace Corps"
---

# §2521. Foreign language proficiency


No person shall be assigned to duty as a volunteer under this chapter in any [foreign country](/usc/22/2321c.md?p=2) or area unless at the time of such assignment he possesses such reasonable proficiency as his assignment requires in speaking the language of the country or area to which he is assigned.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 87–293, title I, § 24, Sept. 22, 1961, 75 Stat. 624.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

This chapter, referred to in text, was in the original “this Act”, meaning Pub. L. 87–293, Sept. 22, 1961, 75 Stat. 612, known as the Peace Corps Act. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 2501 of this title and Tables.