An Act to amend section 301 of the Immigration and Nationality Act
PL 92-584 (H.R.8273), enacted 10/27/1972

86 STAT.] 
PUBLIC LAW 92-584-OCT. 27, 1972 
1289 
AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS 
SEC. 315. (a) There are authorized to be appropriated— 
(1) the sum of $9,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 
1973, and for each of the fiscal years 1974 through 1977 for grants 
under section 305, to remain available until expended; 
(2) such sums, not to exceed $30,000,000, for the fiscal year 
ending June 30,1974, and for each of the fiscal years 1975 through 
1977, as may be necessary, for grants under section 306 to remain 
available until expended; and 
(3) such sums, not to exceed $6,000,000 for the fiscal year end-
ing June 30, 1974, as may be necessary, for grants under section 
312, to remain available until expended. 
(b) There are also authorized to Ibe appropriated such sums, not to 
exceed $3,000,000, for fiscal year 1973 and for each of the four succeed-
ing fiscal years, as may be necessary for administrative expenses 
incident to the administration of this title. 
Approved October 27, 1972. 
Public Law 92-584 
AN ACT 
To amend section 301 of the Immigration and Nationality Act. 
October 27, 1972 
[H. R. 8273] 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That section 301 (b) 
of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1401) is amended 
to read as follows: 
"(b) Any person who is a national and citizen of the United States 
under paragraph (T) of subsection (a) shall lose his nationality and 
citizenship unless—(1) he shall come to the United States and be con-
tinuously physically present therein for a period of not less than two 
years between the ages of fourteen years and twenty-eight years; or 
(2) the alien parent is naturalized while the child is under the age of 
eighteen years and the child begins to reside permanently in the United 
States while under the age of eighteen years. In the administration of 
this subsection absences from the United States of less than sixty days 
in the aggregate during the period for which continuous physical pres-
ence in the United States is required shall not break the continuity of 
such physical presence." 
SEC. 2. Section 16 of the Act of September 11, 1957, is hereby 
repealed. 
SEC. 3. Section 301 of the Immigration and Nationality Act is 
amended by adding at the end thereof a new subsection (d) to read as 
follows: 
"(d) Nothing contained in subsection (b), as amended, shall be 
construed to alter or affect the citizenship of any person who has 
come to the United States prior to the effective date of this subsection 
and who, whether before or after the effective date of this subsection, 
immediately following such coming complies or shall comply with 
the physical presence requirements for retention of citizenship speci-
fied in subsection (b) prior to its amendment and the repeal of section 
16 of the Act of September 11,1957." 
Approved October 27, 1972. 
Immigration and 
Nationality Act, 
amendment. 
66 Stat. 235. 
Citizens born 
abroad, res-idence 
requirements. 
Repeal. 
71 Stat. 644. 
8 u s e 1401b. 
Supra