---
kind: "section"
citation: "22 U.S.C. § 4200"
title: "22"
title_heading: "Foreign Relations and Intercourse"
number: "4200"
heading: "Certification of invoices generally"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/22/4200"
units:
  - "Chapter 52 — Foreign Service"
  - "Subchapter XIV — Powers, Duties and Liabilities of Consular Officers Generally"
---

# §4200. Certification of invoices generally


No consular officer shall certify any invoice unless he is satisfied that the [person](/usc/22/4102.md?p=14) making oath thereto is the [person](/usc/22/4102.md?p=14) he represents himself to be, that he is a credible [person](/usc/22/4102.md?p=14), and that the statements made under such oath are true; and he shall, thereupon, by his certificate, state that he was so satisfied.


## Source credit

(R.S. § 1715.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

R.S. § 1715 derived from act Aug. 18, 1856, ch. 127, § 27, 11 Stat. 62.

Section was not enacted as part of the Foreign Service Act of 1980 which comprises this chapter.

Section was formerly classified to section 1180 of this title, and prior thereto to section 83 of this title.