---
kind: "section"
citation: "22 U.S.C. § 288d"
title: "22"
title_heading: "Foreign Relations and Intercourse"
number: "288d"
heading: "Privileges, exemptions, and immunities of officers, employees, and their families; waiver"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/22/288d"
units:
  - "Chapter 7 — International Bureaus, Congresses, Etc."
  - "Subchapter XVIII — Privileges and Immunities of International Organizations"
---

# §288d. Privileges, exemptions, and immunities of officers, employees, and their families; waiver

- (a) Persons designated by [foreign](/usc/22/3146.md?p=1) governments to serve as their representatives in or to [international organizations](/usc/22/4316.md?p=e-2) and the officers and [employees](/usc/22/4341.md?p=1) of such organizations, and members of the immediate [families](/usc/22/4304a.md?p=c-2) of such representatives, officers, and [employees](/usc/22/4341.md?p=1) residing with them, other than nationals of the [United States](/usc/22/1395.md?p=a-1), shall, insofar as concerns laws regulating entry into and departure from the [United States](/usc/22/1395.md?p=a-1), alien registration and fingerprinting, and the registration of [foreign](/usc/22/3146.md?p=1) agents, be entitled to the same privileges, exemptions, and immunities as are accorded under similar circumstances to officers and [employees](/usc/22/4341.md?p=1), respectively, of [foreign](/usc/22/3146.md?p=1) governments, and members of their [families](/usc/22/4304a.md?p=c-2).
- (b) Representatives of [foreign](/usc/22/3146.md?p=1) governments in or to [international organizations](/usc/22/4316.md?p=e-2) and officers and [employees](/usc/22/4341.md?p=1) of such organizations shall be immune from suit and legal process relating to acts performed by them in their official capacity and falling within their functions as such representatives, officers, or [employees](/usc/22/4341.md?p=1) except insofar as such immunity may be waived by the [foreign](/usc/22/3146.md?p=1) government or [international organization](/usc/22/4316.md?p=e-2) concerned.

## Source credit

(Dec. 29, 1945, ch. 652, title I, § 7(a), (b), 59 Stat. 671.)