# United States Treaty Series/Volume 1/Status of naturalized citizens who return to country of origin (inter-American)

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STATUS OF NATURALIZED CITIZENS WHO RETURN TO COUNTRY OF ORIGIN (INTER-AMERICAN)
* Convention signed at Rio de Janeiro August 13, 1906
* Senate advice and consent to ratification January 13, 1908
* Ratified by the President of the United States January 16, 1908
* Ratification of the United States deposited at Rio de Janeiro February 25, 1908
* Entered into force May 25, 1908
* Proclaimed by the President of the United States January 28, 1913
37 Stat. 1653; Treaty Series 575
Convention Establishing the Status of Naturalized Citizens Who Again Take Up Their Residence in the Country of Their Origin
Their Excellencies, the Presidents of Ecuador, Paraguay, Bolivia, Colombia, Honduras, Panamá, Cuba, Peru, El Salvador, Costa Rica, the United States of Mexico, Guatemala, Uruguay, the Argentine Republic, Nicaragua, the United States of Brazil, the United States of America, and Chile;
Desiring that their respective countries should be represented at the Third International American Conference, sent, thereto, duly authorized to approve the recommendations, resolutions, conventions and treaties that they might deem convenient for the interests of America, the following Delegates:
Ecuador—Dr. Emilio Arévalo; Olmedo Alfaro.
Paraguay—Manuel Gondra; Arsenio López Decoud; Gualberto Cardús y Huerta;
Bolivia—Dr. Alberto Gutiérrez; Dr. Carlos V. Romero;
Colombia—Rafael Uribe Uribe; Dr. Guillermo Valencia;
Honduras—Fausto Dávila;
Panamá—Dr. José Domingo de Obaldía;
Cuba—Dr. Gonzalo de Quesada; Rafael Montoro; Dr. Antonio González Lanuza;
Peru—Dr. Eugenio Larrabure y Unánue; Dr. Antonio Miró Quesada; Dr. Mariano Cornejo;
El Salvador—Dr. Francisco A. Reyes;
Costa Rica—Dr. Ascención Esquivel;
​United States of Mexico—Dr. Francisco León de La Barra; Ricardo Molina-Hübbe; Ricardo García Granados;
Guatemala—Dr. Antonio Batres Jáuregui;
Uruguay—Luís Mellan Lafinur; Dr. Antonio María Rodríguez; Dr. Gonzalo Ramírez;
Argentine Republic—Dr. J. V. González; Dr. José A. Terry; Dr. Eduardo L. Bidau;
Nicaragua—Luís F. Corea;
United States of Brazil—Dr. Joaquim Aurelio Nabuco de Araujo; Dr. Joaquim Francisco de Assis Brasil; Dr. Gastão da Cunha; Dr. Alfredo de Moraes Gomes Ferreira; Dr. João Pandiá Calogeras; Dr. Amaro Cavalcanti; Dr. Joaquim Xavier da Silveira; Dr. José P. da Garça Aranha; Antonio da Fontoura Xavier;
United States of America—William I. Buchanan; Dr. L. S. Rowe; A. J. Montague; Tulio Larrinaga; Dr. Paul S. Reinsch; Van Leer Polk;
Chili—Dr. Anselmo Hevia Riquelme; Joaquín Walker Martínez; Dr. Luís Antonio Vergara; Dr. Adolfo Guerrero;
Who, after having communicated to each other their respective full powers and found them to be in due and proper form, have agreed, to celebrate a Convention establishing the status of naturalized citizens who again take up their residence in the country of their origin, in the following terms:
Art. I. If a citizen, a native of any of the countries signing the present Convention, and naturalized in another, shall again take up his residence, in his native country without the intention of returning to the country in which he has been naturalized, he will be considered as having reassumed his original citizenship, and as having renounced the citizenship acquired by the said naturalization.
Art. II. The intention not to return will be presumed to exist when the naturalized person shall have resided in his native country for more than two years. But this presumption may be destroyed by evidence to the contrary.
Art. III. This Convention will become effective in the countries that ratify it, three months from the dates upon which said ratifications shall be communicated to the Government of the United States of Brazil; and if it should be denounced by any one of them, it shall continue in effect for one year more, to count from the date of such denouncement.
Art. IV. The denouncement of this Convention by any one of the signatory States shall be made to the Government of the United States of Brazil and shall take effect only with regard to the country that may make it.
In testimony whereof the Plenipotentiaries and Delegates have signed the present Convention, and affixed the Seal of the Third Internacional American Conference.
Made in the city of Rio de Janeiro the thirteenth of August nineteen hundred and six, in English, Portuguese, and Spanish, and deposited with the ​Secretary of Foreign Affairs of the United States of Brazil, in order that certified copies thereof be made, and sent through diplomatic channels to the signatory States.
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