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DoDD 5230.20 — Visits and Assignments of Foreign Nationals

DoDD 5230.20 is listed as current Current
in the DoD Issuances catalog as of our last index refresh (2026-08-23). Status is mirrored from that catalog, re-checked weekly — every change is logged. Note: its publication date is 2005-06-22 — 21.2 years old — so check for newer interim changes before citing it.
BranchDepartment of Defense
SeriesDoDD
Publication date2005-06-22 (21.2 years ago)
StatusCurrent
Proponent / OPRUSW(P)
Source of recordDoD Issuances

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Who this publication applies to

This Directive applies to the Office of the Secretary ofDefense (OSD), the Military Departments, the Chairman ofthe Joint Chiefs of Staff, the Combatant Commands, the Office of Inspector General of the Department of Defense, the Defense Agencies, the DoD Field Activities, and all other organizational entities in the Department of Defense (hereafter referred to collectively as the "DoD Components").

If DoDD 5230.20 changes, who else is affected

Functional communityPublicationsWhich ones
Operations Support7DAFMAN 16-201, AFI 16-107, AFMAN 16-114, AFI 16-110, DAFI 16-110, DAFMAN 16-114 … +1
Civil Engineering1AFI 32-6000
Cyberspace1DAFMAN 17-1304
Law1DAFI 51-403
Personnel1DAFI 36-3026V1

11 publications in 5 other communities depend on this one. Each community inspects its own publications; a dependency that crosses communities is owned by nobody, which is why this list normally does not exist anywhere. Built from the publications' own citations, so it reflects what we have read.

Publications that cite DoDD 5230.20

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