---
kind: "section"
citation: "22 U.S.C. § 4025"
title: "22"
title_heading: "Foreign Relations and Intercourse"
number: "4025"
heading: "Training grants"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/22/4025"
units:
  - "Chapter 52 — Foreign Service"
  - "Subchapter VII — Career Development, Training, and Orientation"
---

# §4025. Training grants

- (a) **Family members attending approved programs of study; limitations—** To facilitate training provided to members of families of [Government](/usc/22/3902.md?p=7) employees under this subchapter, the [Secretary](/usc/22/3902.md?p=10) may make grants (by advance payment or by reimbursement) to family members attending approved programs of study. No such grant may exceed the amount actually expended for necessary costs incurred in conjunction with such attendance.
- (b) **Compensation for individuals unable to participate in language training furnished by Government—** If a member of the Service who is assigned [abroad](/usc/22/3902.md?p=1), or a member of his or her family, is unable to participate in language training furnished by the [Government](/usc/22/3902.md?p=7) through the institution or otherwise, the [Secretary](/usc/22/3902.md?p=10) may compensate that individual for all or part of the costs of language training, related to the assignment [abroad](/usc/22/3902.md?p=1), which is undertaken at a public or private institution.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 96–465, title I, § 705, Oct. 17, 1980, 94 Stat. 2101; Pub. L. 103–236, title I, § 126(3), Apr. 30, 1994, 108 Stat. 394.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1994—Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 103–236 substituted “institution” for “Institute” after “through the”.