---
kind: "section"
citation: "22 U.S.C. § 3923"
title: "22"
title_heading: "Foreign Relations and Intercourse"
number: "3923"
heading: "Compatibility among agencies utilizing Foreign Service personnel system"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/22/3923"
units:
  - "Chapter 52 — Foreign Service"
  - "Subchapter II — Management of Service"
---

# §3923. Compatibility among agencies utilizing Foreign Service personnel system

- (a) The Service shall be administered to the extent practicable in a manner that will assure maximum compatibility among the [agencies](/usc/22/3902.md?p=2) authorized by law to utilize the Foreign Service personnel [system](/usc/22/4071a.md?p=10). To this end, the other heads of such [agencies](/usc/22/3902.md?p=2) shall consult regularly with the Secretary of State.
- (b) Nothing in this subchapter shall be construed as diminishing the authority of the head of any [agency](/usc/22/3902.md?p=2) authorized by law to utilize the Foreign Service personnel [system](/usc/22/4071a.md?p=10).

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 96–465, title I, § 203, Oct. 17, 1980, 94 Stat. 2079.)