---
kind: "section"
citation: "22 U.S.C. § 4012"
title: "22"
title_heading: "Foreign Relations and Intercourse"
number: "4012"
heading: "Termination of appointments of consular agents and foreign national employees"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/22/4012"
units:
  - "Chapter 52 — Foreign Service"
  - "Subchapter VI — Promotion and Retention"
---

# §4012. Termination of appointments of consular agents and foreign national employees

- (a) The Secretary of State may terminate at any time the appointment of any consular agent in light of the criteria and procedures normally followed in the locality in similar circumstances.
- (b) The [Secretary](/usc/22/3902.md?p=10) may terminate at any time the appointment of any foreign national employee in light of the criteria and procedures normally followed in the locality in similar circumstances.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 96–465, title I, § 613, formerly § 612, Oct. 17, 1980, 94 Stat. 2099; renumbered § 613, Pub. L. 103–236, title I, § 181(a)(1), Apr. 30, 1994, 108 Stat. 416.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Prior Provisions

A prior section 613 of Pub. L. 96–465 was renumbered section 614 and is classified to section 4013 of this title.