---
kind: "section"
citation: "22 U.S.C. § 3985"
title: "22"
title_heading: "Foreign Relations and Intercourse"
number: "3985"
heading: "Temporary details"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/22/3985"
units:
  - "Chapter 52 — Foreign Service"
  - "Subchapter V — Classification of Positions and Assignments"
---

# §3985. Temporary details


A period of duty of not more than six months in duration by a member of the Service shall be considered a temporary detail and shall not be considered an assignment within the meaning of this subchapter.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 96–465, title I, § 505, Oct. 17, 1980, 94 Stat. 2094.)