---
kind: "section"
citation: "5 U.S.C. § 3597"
title: "5"
title_heading: "Government Organization and Employees"
number: "3597"
heading: "Reemployment following limited appointment in the Foreign Service"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/5/3597"
units:
  - "Part III — Employees"
  - "Subpart B — Employment and Retention"
  - "Chapter 35 — Retention Preference, Voluntary Separation Incentive Payments, Restoration, and Reemployment"
  - "Subchapter VI — Reemployment Following Limited Appointment in the Foreign Service"
---

# §3597. Reemployment following limited appointment in the Foreign Service


An [employee](/usc/5/4701.md?p=a-2) of any [agency](/usc/5/3132.md?p=a-1) who accepts, with the consent of the head of that [agency](/usc/5/3132.md?p=a-1), a limited appointment in the Foreign [Service](/usc/5/8401.md?p=26) under section 309 of the Foreign Service Act of 1980 is entitled, upon the expiration of that appointment, to be reemployed in that [employee](/usc/5/4701.md?p=a-2)’s former [position](/usc/5/5102.md?p=a-3) or in a corresponding or higher [position](/usc/5/5102.md?p=a-3) in that [agency](/usc/5/3132.md?p=a-1). Upon reemployment under this section, an [employee](/usc/5/4701.md?p=a-2) shall be entitled to any within-[grade](/usc/5/5102.md?p=a-5) increases in [pay](/usc/5/7511.md?p=a-4) which the [employee](/usc/5/4701.md?p=a-2) would have received if the [employee](/usc/5/4701.md?p=a-2) had remained in the former [position](/usc/5/5102.md?p=a-3) in the [agency](/usc/5/3132.md?p=a-1).


## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 96–465, title II, § 2301(a), Oct. 17, 1980, 94 Stat. 2164.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

Section 309 of the Foreign Service Act of 1980, referred to in text, is classified to section 3949 of Title 22, Foreign Relations and Intercourse.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

Section effective Feb. 15, 1981, except as otherwise provided, see section 2403 of Pub. L. 96–465, set out as a note under section 3901 of Title 22, Foreign Relations and Intercourse.