Before or after such a settlement is reached. the Foreign Claims Settlement Commission (FCSC)an independent. quasijudicial Federal agency within the Department of Justice--determines the validity and valuation of property claims of U.S. nationals against that foreign government. The FCSC informs the Secretary of the Treasury of the results of the FCSCs adjudications and the Secretary of the Treasury then distributes funds from the lumpsum settlement on a pro rata basis to the U.S. nationals that obtained awards from the FCSC. In contrast. claimants who were not American citizens when their property was taken have at their disposal only the domestic law of their former country. even if they later became naturalized American citizens. Considering these realities. Congress has a role in helping enable these dispossessed property owners to file claims in their former homelands with a real possibility of achieving a just resolution.
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