---
kind: "section"
citation: "22 U.S.C. § 4005"
title: "22"
title_heading: "Foreign Relations and Intercourse"
number: "4005"
heading: "Implementation of selection board recommendations"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/22/4005"
units:
  - "Chapter 52 — Foreign Service"
  - "Subchapter VI — Promotion and Retention"
---

# §4005. Implementation of selection board recommendations

- (a) Recommendations for promotion made by selection [boards](/usc/22/2431a.md?p=4) shall be submitted to the [Secretary](/usc/22/277d–43.md?p=5) in rank order by salary class or in rank order by specialization within a salary class. The [Secretary](/usc/22/277d–43.md?p=5) shall make promotions and, with respect to career appointments into or within the Senior [Foreign](/usc/22/3146.md?p=1) Service, shall make recommendations to the President for promotions, in accordance with the rankings of the selection [boards](/usc/22/2431a.md?p=4).
- (b) Notwithstanding [subsection (a)](#a), in special circumstances set forth by regulation, the [Secretary](/usc/22/277d–43.md?p=5) may remove the name of an individual from the rank order list submitted by a selection [board](/usc/22/2431a.md?p=4) or delay the promotion of an individual named in such a list.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 96–465, title I, § 605, Oct. 17, 1980, 94 Stat. 2096.)