---
kind: "section"
citation: "22 U.S.C. § 5715"
title: "22"
title_heading: "Foreign Relations and Intercourse"
number: "5715"
heading: "Cultural and educational exchanges"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/22/5715"
units:
  - "Chapter 66 — United States-Hong Kong Policy"
  - "Subchapter I — Policy"
---

# §5715. Cultural and educational exchanges


It is the sense of the Congress that the following, which are based in part on the relevant provisions of the [Joint Declaration](/usc/22/5702.md?p=2), are and should continue after June 30, 1997, to be the policy of the [United States](/usc/22/1395.md?p=a-1) with respect to cultural and educational exchanges with [Hong Kong](/usc/22/5702.md?p=1):

- (1) The [United States](/usc/22/1395.md?p=a-1) should seek to maintain and expand [United States](/usc/22/1395.md?p=a-1)-[Hong Kong](/usc/22/5702.md?p=1) relations and exchanges in culture, education, science, and academic research. The [United States](/usc/22/1395.md?p=a-1) should encourage American participation in bilateral exchanges with [Hong Kong](/usc/22/5702.md?p=1), both official and unofficial.
- (2) The [United States](/usc/22/1395.md?p=a-1) should actively seek to further [United States](/usc/22/1395.md?p=a-1)-[Hong Kong](/usc/22/5702.md?p=1) cultural relations and promote bilateral exchanges, including the negotiating and concluding of appropriate [agreements](/usc/22/2431a.md?p=7) in these matters.
- (3) [Hong Kong](/usc/22/5702.md?p=1) should be accorded separate status as a full partner under the Fulbright Academic Exchange [Program](/usc/22/3383.md?p=6) (apart from the United Kingdom before July 1, 1997, and apart from the People’s Republic of China thereafter), with the continuation or establishment of a Fulbright [Commission](/usc/22/277d–43.md?p=2) or functionally equivalent mechanism.
- (4) The [United States](/usc/22/1395.md?p=a-1) should actively encourage [Hong Kong](/usc/22/5702.md?p=1) residents to visit the [United States](/usc/22/1395.md?p=a-1) on nonimmigrant visas for such purposes as business, tourism, education, and scientific and academic research, in accordance with applicable [United States](/usc/22/1395.md?p=a-1) and [Hong Kong](/usc/22/5702.md?p=1) laws.
- (5) Upon the request of the Legislative Council of [Hong Kong](/usc/22/5702.md?p=1), the Librarian of Congress, acting through the Congressional Research Service, should seek to expand educational and informational ties with the Council.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 102–383, title I, § 105, Oct. 5, 1992, 106 Stat. 1452.)