---
kind: "section"
citation: "22 U.S.C. § 704"
title: "22"
title_heading: "Foreign Relations and Intercourse"
number: "704"
heading: "Immunities of courts and witnesses"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/22/704"
units:
  - "Chapter 13 — Service Courts of Friendly Foreign Forces"
---

# §704. Immunities of courts and witnesses


Members of any [service court](/usc/22/701.md?p=b) of a [friendly foreign force](/usc/22/701.md?p=a) lawfully exercising jurisdiction in the [United States](/usc/22/701.md?p=c) in relation to members of such force, and any witnesses appearing before such [service court](/usc/22/701.md?p=b), shall enjoy the same immunities and privileges as are enjoyed by members of a court martial of the [United States](/usc/22/701.md?p=c) and by witnesses appearing before such a court martial.


## Source credit

(June 30, 1944, ch. 326, § 4, 58 Stat. 644.)