---
kind: "section"
citation: "22 U.S.C. § 4005"
title: "22"
title_heading: "Foreign Relations and Intercourse"
number: "4005"
heading: "Implementation of selection board recommendations"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/22/4005"
units:
  - "Chapter 52 — Foreign Service"
  - "Subchapter VI — Promotion and Retention"
---

# §4005. Implementation of selection board recommendations

- (a) Recommendations for promotion made by selection boards shall be submitted to the [Secretary](/usc/22/3902.md?p=10) in rank order by salary class or in rank order by specialization within a salary class. The [Secretary](/usc/22/3902.md?p=10) shall make promotions and, with respect to career appointments into or within the Senior Foreign Service, shall make recommendations to the President for promotions, in accordance with the rankings of the selection boards.
- (b) Notwithstanding [subsection (a)](#a), in special circumstances set forth by regulation, the [Secretary](/usc/22/3902.md?p=10) may remove the name of an individual from the rank order list submitted by a selection board or delay the promotion of an individual named in such a list.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 96–465, title I, § 605, Oct. 17, 1980, 94 Stat. 2096.)