---
kind: "section"
citation: "22 U.S.C. § 4025"
title: "22"
title_heading: "Foreign Relations and Intercourse"
number: "4025"
heading: "Training grants"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/22/4025"
units:
  - "Chapter 52 — Foreign Service"
  - "Subchapter VII — Career Development, Training, and Orientation"
---

# §4025. Training grants

- (a) **Family members attending approved programs of study; limitations—** To facilitate [training](/usc/22/8921.md?p=3) provided to members of [families](/usc/22/4304a.md?p=c-2) of [Government](/usc/22/3902.md?p=7) [employees](/usc/22/4341.md?p=1) under this subchapter, the [Secretary](/usc/22/277d–43.md?p=5) may make grants (by advance payment or by reimbursement) to [family](/usc/22/4304a.md?p=c-2) members attending approved [programs](/usc/22/3383.md?p=6) of study. No such grant may exceed the amount actually expended for necessary costs incurred in conjunction with such attendance.
- (b) **Compensation for individuals unable to participate in language training furnished by Government—** If a member of the Service who is assigned [abroad](/usc/22/3902.md?p=1), or a member of his or her [family](/usc/22/4304a.md?p=c-2), is unable to participate in language [training](/usc/22/8921.md?p=3) furnished by the [Government](/usc/22/3902.md?p=7) through the institution or otherwise, the [Secretary](/usc/22/277d–43.md?p=5) may compensate that individual for all or part of the costs of language [training](/usc/22/8921.md?p=3), related to the assignment [abroad](/usc/22/3902.md?p=1), which is undertaken at a public or private institution.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 96–465, title I, § 705, Oct. 17, 1980, 94 Stat. 2101; Pub. L. 103–236, title I, § 126(3), Apr. 30, 1994, 108 Stat. 394.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1994—Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 103–236 substituted “institution” for “Institute” after “through the”.