---
kind: "section"
citation: "22 U.S.C. § 1644c"
title: "22"
title_heading: "Foreign Relations and Intercourse"
number: "1644c"
heading: "Ownership of claims by nationals"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/22/1644c"
units:
  - "Chapter 21 — Settlement of International Claims"
  - "Subchapter VI — Claims Against German Democratic Republic"
---

# §1644c. Ownership of claims by nationals


A claim shall not be favorably considered under [section 1644b of this title](/usc/22/1644b.md) unless the [property](/usc/22/1644a.md?p=3) right on which it is based was owned, wholly or partially, directly or indirectly, by a [national of the United States](/usc/22/1644a.md?p=1) on the date of loss and if favorably considered, the claim shall be considered only if it has been held by one or more nationals of the [United States](/usc/22/1395.md?p=a-1) continuously from the date that the loss occurred until the date of filing with the [Commission](/usc/22/1644a.md?p=2).


## Source credit

(Mar. 10, 1950, ch. 54, title VI, § 603, as added Pub. L. 94–542, Oct. 18, 1976, 90 Stat. 2510.)