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(b) NATURALIZATION ON TAKING OATH FOR CERTAIN WOMEN.—(1) A
woman may be naturalized by taking the oath required for naturalization,
without filing an application for naturalization or complying with any other
requirement for naturalization, if—
(A) she was a citizen of the United States at birth;
(B) she lost that citizenship by marrying—
(i) an alien before September 22, 1922; or
(ii) after September 21, 1922, an alien who was ineligible to be-
come a citizen of the United States;
(C) her marriage to that alien ended after January 12, 1941;
(D) she has taken no affirmative action to acquire the nationality
of another country except by marriage; and
(E) she is not ineligible to be naturalized under section 20331 of this
title.
(2) A woman satisfying paragraph (1) of this subsection may take the
oath—
(A) in the United States before the Attorney General or a judge or
a clerk of a court described in section 20511 of this title; or
(B) outside the United States before a diplomatic or consular officer.
(3) The Attorney General, court, embassy, legation, or consulate, as ap-
propriate, shall—
(A) enter the oath in the records of the Attorney General, court, em-
bassy, legation, or consulate; and
(B) deliver to the woman, on her request, a certified copy of the pro-
ceedings and oath, under seal of the Department of Justice, court, em-
bassy, legation, or consulate, at a cost of not more than $5.
(4) A certified copy of the proceedings and the oath delivered under para-
graph (3) of this subsection is evidence of the facts stated in the copy in
any court of record, judicial tribunal, or agency.
(c) PREVIOUS STATUS REACQUIRED.—A woman naturalized under this
section or section 317(a) or (b) of the Nationality Act of 1940 (ch. 876,
54 Stat. 1146) has, from the date of naturalization, the same status as a
citizen at birth or a naturalized citizen that she had before losing citizen-
ship. Naturalization of the woman does not confer citizenship on the woman
retroactively for any period that she was not a citizen of the United States.
§ 20319. Nationals residing in American Samoa
Residence and physical presence in American Samoa are deemed to be
residence and physical presence in the United States under section
20301(a)(3), (4), and (6) of this title for an individual who—
(1) is a national, but not a citizen, of the United States; and
(2) becomes a resident of a State.
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§ 20320. Philippine citizens who entered before May 1, 1934
An individual who was a citizen of the Commonwealth of the Philippines
on July 2, 1946, entered the United States before May 1, 1934, and has
resided in the United States continuously since entry, is deemed to have
been lawfully admitted for permanent residence.
SUBCHAPTER II—INELIGIBILITY
§ 20331. Individuals dangerous to the welfare, safety, and se-
curity of the United States
(a) GROUNDS FOR DISALLOWING NATURALIZATION.—An individual may
not be naturalized as a citizen of the United States if, at any time during
the 10 years before filing the application for naturalization or from the fil-
ing of the application through the time the individual is naturalized, the in-
dividual—
(1) advocates establishing—
(A) a totalitarian communist dictatorship in a country through
an internationally coordinated communist movement; or
(B) a totalitarian dictatorship in the United States;
(2) advocates or teaches—
(A) opposition to all organized government;
(B) the overthrow by unconstitutional means of the United
States Government or of all forms of law;
(C) the duty, necessity, or propriety of unlawfully assaulting or
killing a particular officer or officers generally of an organized
government because of the official position of the officer or offi-
cers;
(D) unlawfully damaging or destroying property; or
(E) sabotage;
(3) writes, publishes, causes to be written or published, knowingly
distributes, prints, displays, or causes to be distributed, printed, pub-
lished, or displayed, or knowingly possesses to publish, distribute, or
display, written material—
(A) advocating or teaching opposition to all organized govern-
ment; or
(B) advocating—
(i) the overthrow by unconstitutional means of the United
States Government or of all forms of law;
(ii) the duty, necessity, or propriety of unlawfully assault-
ing or killing of a particular officer or officers generally of an
organized government because of the official position of the
officer or officers;
(iii) unlawfully damaging or destroying property;
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(iv) sabotage;
(v) establishing a totalitarian communist dictatorship in a
country through an internationally coordinated communist
movement; or
(vi) establishing a totalitarian dictatorship in the United
States; or
(4) is a member of or affiliated with—
(A) the Communist Party of the United States;
(B) another totalitarian party of the United States;
(C) the Communist Political Association;
(D) the Communist or another totalitarian party of a State, a
foreign country, or a political or geographical subdivision of a for-
eign country;
(E) a section, subsidiary, branch, affiliate, or subdivision of an
organization described in subclauses (A)–(D) of this clause (4);
(F) the direct predecessor or successor of an organization de-
scribed in subclauses (A)–(D) of this clause (4), regardless of the
name the organization uses or used;
(G) an organization advocating establishing a totalitarian com-
munist dictatorship in a country through an internationally coordi-
nated communist movement, or establishing a totalitarian dictator-
ship in the United States, through—
(i) the organization’s statements; or
(ii) written material issued or published under the author-
ity of or with the consent of the organization, or paid for by
money provided by the organization;
(H) an organization advocating or teaching—
(i) opposition to all organized government;
(ii) the overthrow by unconstitutional means of the United
States Government or of all forms of law;
(iii) the duty, necessity, or propriety of unlawfully assault-
ing or killing a particular officer or officers generally of an
organized government because of the official position of the
officer or officers;
(iv) unlawfully damaging or destroying property; or
(v) sabotage; or
(I) an organization writing, distributing, printing, publishing,
displaying, causing to be written, distributed, printed, published,
or displayed, or possessing to distribute, publish, issue, or display,
written material described in clause (3) of this subsection.