---
kind: "section"
citation: "22 U.S.C. § 282f"
title: "22"
title_heading: "Foreign Relations and Intercourse"
number: "282f"
heading: "Jurisdiction and venue of actions"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/22/282f"
units:
  - "Chapter 7 — International Bureaus, Congresses, Etc."
  - "Subchapter XI — International Finance Corporation"
---

# §282f. Jurisdiction and venue of actions


For the purpose of any action which may be brought within the [United States](/usc/22/1395.md?p=a-1) or its Territories or possessions by or against the [Corporation](/usc/22/7702.md?p=6) in accordance with the Articles of [Agreement](/usc/22/2431a.md?p=7) of the [Corporation](/usc/22/7702.md?p=6), the [Corporation](/usc/22/7702.md?p=6) shall be deemed to be an inhabitant of the Federal judicial district in which its principal [office](/usc/22/2214a.md?p=9) in the [United States](/usc/22/1395.md?p=a-1) is located, and any such action at law or in equity to which the [Corporation](/usc/22/7702.md?p=6) shall be a party shall be deemed to arise under the laws of the [United States](/usc/22/1395.md?p=a-1), and the district courts of the [United States](/usc/22/1395.md?p=a-1) shall have original jurisdiction of any such action. When the [Corporation](/usc/22/7702.md?p=6) is a defendant in any such action, it may, at any time before the trial thereof, remove such action from a State court into the district court of the [United States](/usc/22/1395.md?p=a-1) for the proper district by following the procedure for removal of causes otherwise provided by law.


## Source credit

(Aug. 11, 1955, ch. 788, § 8, 69 Stat. 670.)

## Notes

### Court Rules

### Federal Rules of Civil Procedure

One form of action, see rule 2, Title 28, Appendix, Judiciary and Judicial Procedure.