---
kind: "unit"
title: "22"
title_heading: "Foreign Relations and Intercourse"
key: "ch52/schVI"
level: "subchapter"
label: "Subchapter VI"
heading: "Promotion and Retention"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/22/ch52-schVI"
sections_count: 15
---

# Subchapter VI — Promotion and Retention

Title 22 — Foreign Relations and Intercourse › Chapter 52 — Foreign Service

## Sections

- [§4001. Promotions](/usc/22/4001.md)
- [§4002. Establishment of selection boards](/usc/22/4002.md)
- [§4003. Recommendations and rankings](/usc/22/4003.md)
- [§4004. Records](/usc/22/4004.md)
- [§4005. Implementation of selection board recommendations](/usc/22/4005.md)
- [§4006. Other bases for promoting or increasing pay](/usc/22/4006.md)
- [§4007. Retirement for expiration of time in class](/usc/22/4007.md)
- [§4008. Retirement based on failure to meet standard of performance](/usc/22/4008.md)
- [§4009. Retirement benefits](/usc/22/4009.md)
- [§4010. Separation for cause; suspension](/usc/22/4010.md)
- [§4010a. Reductions in force](/usc/22/4010a.md)
- [§4011. Termination of limited appointments](/usc/22/4011.md)
- [§4012. Termination of appointments of consular agents and foreign national employees](/usc/22/4012.md)
- [§4012a. Foreign national employees separation pay](/usc/22/4012a.md)
- [§4013. Department awards](/usc/22/4013.md)