---
kind: "section"
citation: "22 U.S.C. § 4312"
title: "22"
title_heading: "Foreign Relations and Intercourse"
number: "4312"
heading: "Presidential guidelines"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/22/4312"
units:
  - "Chapter 53 — Authorities Relating to the Regulation of Foreign Missions"
---

# §4312. Presidential guidelines


The authorities granted to the [Secretary](/usc/22/4302.md?p=a-5) pursuant to the provisions of this chapter shall be exercised in accordance with procedures and guidelines approved by the President.


## Source credit

(Aug. 1, 1956, ch. 841, title II, § 212, as added Pub. L. 97–241, title II, § 202(b), Aug. 24, 1982, 96 Stat. 290.)

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

Section effective Oct. 1, 1982, see section 204 of Pub. L. 97–241, set out as a note under section 4301 of this title.