---
kind: "section"
citation: "22 U.S.C. § 9123"
title: "22"
title_heading: "Foreign Relations and Intercourse"
number: "9123"
heading: "Consultations with foreign governments"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/22/9123"
units:
  - "Chapter 98 — International Child Abduction Prevention and Return"
  - "Subchapter II — Actions by the Secretary of State"
---

# §9123. Consultations with foreign governments


As soon as practicable after the Secretary of State makes a determination under [section 9121 of this title](/usc/22/9121.md) in response to a failure to resolve [unresolved abduction cases](/usc/22/9101.md?p=23-A) or the [Secretary](/usc/22/277d–43.md?p=5) takes an action under subsection (d) or (e) of [section 9122 of this title](/usc/22/9122.md), based on a [pattern of noncompliance](/usc/22/9101.md?p=19-A), the [Secretary](/usc/22/277d–43.md?p=5) shall request consultations with the government of such country regarding the situation giving rise to such determination.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 113–150, title II, § 203, Aug. 8, 2014, 128 Stat. 1820.)