An Act to revise the laws relating to immigration, naturalization, and nationality; and for other purposes
PL 82-414 (H.R.5678), enacted 06/27/1952

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Public Law 414 
CHAPTER 477 
AN ACT 
June 27, 1952 
To revise the laws relating to immigration, naturalization, and nationality; 
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and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of Am£Hca in Congress assembled, That this Act, 
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divided into titles, chapters, and sections according to the following 
table of contents, may be cited as the "Immigration and Nationality 
Act". 
TABLE OF CONTENTS 
TITLE I—GENERAL 
See. 101. Definitions. 
Sec. 102. Applicability of title II to certain nonimmigrants. 
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Sec. 103. Powers and duties of the Attorney General and the Commissioner. 
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Sec. 104. Powers and duties of the Secretary of State; Bureau of Security and 
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Consular Affairs. 
Sec. 105. Liaison with internal security officers. 
TITLE II—IMMIGRATION 
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CHAPTER 1—QUOTA SYSTEM 
Sec. 201. Numerical limitations: annual quota based upon national origin; 
minimum quotas. 
Sec. 202. Determination of quota to which an immigrant is chargeable. 
Sec. 203. Allocation of immigrant visas within quotas. 
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Sec. 204. Procedure for granting immigrant status under section 101 (a) (27) 
(P) (i) or 203 (a) (1) (A). 
Sec. 205. Procedure for granting nonquota status or preference by reason of 
relationship. 
Sec. 206. Revocation of approval of petitions. 
Sec. 207. Unused quota immigrant visas. 
CHAPTER 2—QUALIFICATIONS FOR ADMISSION OF ALIENS ; TRAVEL CONTROI- OF 
CITIZENS AND ALIENS 
Sec. 211. Documentary requirements. 
Sec. 212. General classes of aliens ineligible to receive visas and excluded from 
admission. 
Sec. 213. Admission of aliens on giving bond or cash deposit. 
Sec. 214. Admission of nonimmigrants. 
Sec. 215. Travel control of aliens and citizens in time of war or national emer-
gency. 
CHAPTER 3—^ISSUANCE ON ENTRY DOCUMENTS 
Sec. 221. Issuance of visas. 
Sec. 222. Applications for visas. 
Sec. 223. Reentry permits. 
Sec. 224. Nonquota immigrant visas. 
CHAPTER 4—^PROVISIONS RELATING TO ENTRY AND EXCLUSION 
Sec. 231. Lists of aliens and citizen passengers arriving or departing; record Oi. 
resident aliens and citizens leaving permanently for foreign country. 
Sec. 232. Detention of aliens lor observation and examination. 
Sec. 233. Temporary removal for examination upon arrival. 
Sec. 234. Physical and mental examination. 
Sec. 235. Inspection by immigrant oflBcers. 
Sec. 236. Exclusion of aliens. 
Sec. 237. Immediate deportation of aliens excluded from admission or entering 
in violation of law. 
Sec. 238. Entry through or from foreign contiguous territory and adjacent 
islands; landing stations. 
Sec. 239. Designation of ports of entry for aliens arriving by civil aircraft. 
Sec. 240. Records of admission. 
CHAPTER 5—DEPORTATION ; ADJUSTMENT OF STATUS 
Sec. 241. General classes of deportable aliens. 
Sec. 242. Apprehension and deportation of aliens. 
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TABLE OF CONTENTS—Continued 
TITLE II—IMMIGRATION—Continued 
CHAPTER 5—DEPORTATION; ADJUSTMENT OF STATUS—Continued 
Sec. 243. Countries to which aliens shall be deported; cost of deportation. 
Sec. 244. Suspension of deportation; voluntary departure. 
Sec. 245. Adjustment of status of nonimmigrant to that of person admitted for 
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permanent I'esidence. 
Sec. 246. Rescission of adjustment of status. 
Sec. 247. Adjustment of status of certain resident aliens to nonimmigrant status. 
Sec. 248. Change of nonimmigrant classification. 
Sec. 249. Record of admission for permanent residence in the case of certain 
aliens who entered prior to July 1, 1924. 
Sec. 250. Removal of aliens who have fallen into distress. 
CHAPTER G 
SPECIAL PROVISIONS RELATING TO ALIEN CREWMEN 
Sec. 251. Lists of alien crewmen; reports of illegal landings. 
Sec. 252. Conditional permits to land temporarily. 
Sec. 253. Hospital treatment of alien crewmen afflicted with certain diseases. 
Sec. 254. Control of alien crewmen. 
Sec. 255. Employment on passenger vessels of aliens afflicted with certain dis-
abilities. 
Sec. 256. Discharge of alien crewmen. 
Sec. 257. Bringing in alien crewmen into United States with intent to evade 
immigration laws. 
CHAPTER 7—REGISTRATION OF ALIENS 
Sec. 261. Aliens seeking entry into the United States. 
Sec. 262. Registration of aliens in the United States. 
Sec. 263. Provisions governing registration of special groups. 
Sec. 264. Forms and procedure. 
Sec. 265. Notices of change of address. 
Sec. 266. Penalties. 
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GENERAL PENALTY PROVISIONS 
Sec. 271. Prevention of unauthorized landing of aliens. 
Sec. 272. Bringing in alien subject to disability or afflicted with disease. 
Sec. 273. Unlawful bringing of aliens into United States. 
See. 274. Bringing in and harboring certain aliens. 
Sec. 275. Entry of alien at improper time or place; misrepresentation and con-
cealment of facts. 
Sec. 276. Reentry of deported alien. 
Sec. 277. Aiding or assisting subversive alien to enter the United States, 
Sec. 278. Importation of aliens for immoral purposes. 
Sec. 279. Jurisdiction of district courts. 
Sec. 280. Collection of penalties and expenses. 
CHAPTER 9—MISCELLANEOUS 
Sec. 281. Schedule of fees. 
Sec. 282. Printing of reentry permits and blank forms of manifests and crew 
lists. 
Sec. 283. Travel expenses and expense of transporting remains of immigration 
officers and employees who die outside the United States. 
Sec. 284. Members of the Armed Forces. 
Sec. 285. Disposal of privileges at immigrant stations. 
Sec. 286. Disposition of moneys collected under the provisions of this title. 
Sec. 287. Powers of immigration officers and employees. 
Sec. 288. Local jurisdiction over immigrant stations. 
Sec. 289. American Indians born in Canada. 
Sec. 290. Central file; information from other departments and agencies. 
Sec. 291. Burden of proof. 
Sec. 292. Right to counsel. 
TITLE III—NATIONALITY AND NATURALIZATION 
CHAPTER 1 
N A T I O N A L I T Y AT BIRTH AND BY COLLECTIVE NATURALIZATION 
Sec. 301. Nationals and citizens at birth. 
Sec. 302. Persons born in Puerto Rico. 
Sec. 303. Persons born in the Canal Zone. 
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TABLE Ol^ CONTENTS—Continued 
TITLE III—NATIONALITY AND NATURALIZATION—Continued 
CHAPTER 1 
NATIONALITY AT BIRTH AND BY COLLECTIVE N A T U R A L I Z A T I O N — C o n t i n u e d 
Sec. 304. Persons born in Alaska. 
Sec. 305. Persons born in Hawaii. 
Sec. 306. Persons living in and born in the Virgin Islands. 
Sec. 307. Persons living in and born in Guam. 
Sec. 308. Nationals but not citizens at birth. 
Sec. 309. Children born out of wedlock. 
CHAPTER 2—NATIONALITY THROUGH NATURALIZATION 
Sec. 310. Jurisdiction to naturalize. 
Sec. 311. Eligibility for naturalization. 
Sec. 312. Requirements as to understanding the English language, history, prin-
ciples and form of government of the United States. 
Sec. 313. Prohibition upon the naturalization of persons opposed to government 
or law, or who favor totalitarian forms of government. 
Sec. 314. Ineligibility to naturalization of deserters from the Armed Forces of 
the United States. 
Sec. 315. Alien relieved from training and service in the Armed Forces of the 
United States because of alienage barred from citizenship. 
Sec. 316. Requirements as to residence, good moral character, attachment to 
the principles of the Constitution, and favorable disposition to the 
United States. 
Sec. 317. Temporary absence of persons performing religious duties. 
Sec. 318. Prerequisites to naturalization—burden of proof. 
Sec. 319. Married persons. 
Sec. 320. Children born outside of United States of one alien and one citizen 
parent. 
Sec. 321. Children born outside of United States of alien parent. 
Sec. 322. Child born outside of United States; naturalization on petition of 
citizen parent; requirements and exemptions. 
Sec. 323. Children adopted by United States citizens. 
Sec. 324. Fonner citizens regaining United States citizenship. 
Sec. 325. Nationals but not citizens of the United States; residence within out-
lying possessions. 
Sec. 326. Resident Philippine citizens excepted from certain requirements. 
Sec. 327. Former United States citizens losing citizenship by entering the armed 
forces of foreign countries during \/orld War II. 
Sec. 328. Naturalization through service in the Armed Forces of the United 
States. 
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Sec. 329. Naturalization through active-duty service in Armed Forces during 
World War I or V/orld War II. 
Sec. 330. Constructive residence through service on certain United States vessels. 
Sec. 331. Alien enemies ; naturalization under specified conditions and procedure. 
Sec. 332. Procedural and administrative provisions; executive functions. 
Sec. 333. Photographs. 
Sec. 334. Petition for naturalization; declaration of intention. 
Sec. 335. Investigation of petitioners; preliminary examinations on petitions. 
Sec. 336. Final hearing in open court; examination of petitioner before the court. 
Sec. 337. Oath of renunciation and allegiance. 
Sec. 338. Certificate of naturalization; contents. 
Sec. 339. Functions and duties of clerks. 
Sec. 340. Revocation of naturalization. 
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Sec. 341. Certificates of citizenship; procedure. 
Sec. 342. Cancellation of certificates not to affect citizenship status. 
Sec. 343. Documents and copies issued by the Attorney General. 
Sec. 344. Fiscal provisions. 
Sec. 345. Mail relating to naturalization transmitted free of postage and regis-
tered. 
Sec. 346. Publication and distribution of citizenship textbooks from naturaliza-
tion fees. 
Sec. 347. Compilation of naturalization statistics and payment for equipment. 
Sec. 348. Admissibility in evidence of testimony as to statements voluntarily 
made to officers or employees in the course of their official duties. 
CHAPTER 3—^LOSS OF NATIONALITY 
Sec. 349. Loss of nationality by native-born or naturalized citizen. 
Sec. 350. Dual nationals; divestiture of foreign nationality. 
Sec. 351. Restrictions on expatriation. 
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TABLE OF CONTENTS—Contiiiued 
TITLE III—NATIONALITY AND NATURALIZATION—Continued 
CHAPTER 3—LOSS OF NATIONALITY—Continued 
Sec. 352. Loss of nationality by naturalized national. 
Sec. 353. Section 352 not effective as to certain persons. 
Sec. 354. Section 852 (a) (2) not effective as to certain persons. 
Sec. 355. Loss of American nationality through parent's expatriation; not eft'ec-
tive until person attains age of twenty-five years. 
Sec. 356. Nationality lost solely from performance of acts or fulfillment 
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conditions. 
Sec. 357. Application of treaties; exceptions. 
CHAPTER 4 — M I S C E L L A N E O U S 
Sec. 358. Certificate of diplomatic or consular officer as to loss of American 
nationality. 
Sec. 359. Certificate of nationality for a person not a naturalized citizen for use 
in proceedings of a foreign state. 
Sec. 360. Judicial proceedings for declaration of United States nationality in 
event of denial of rights and privileges as national. 
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TITLE IV—MISCELLANEOUS 
Sec. 401. Joint Congressional Committee. 
Sec. 402. Amendments to other laws. 
Sec. 408. Laws repealed. 
Sec. 404. Authorization of appropriations. 
Sec. 405. Savings clauses. 
Sec. 406. Separability. 
Sec. 407. Effective date. 
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TITLE I—GENERAL 
DEFINITIONS 
SECTION 101. (a) As used in this Act— 
(1) The term "administrator'' means the administrator of the 
Bureau of Security and Consular Affairs of the Department of State. 
(2) The term "advocates" includes, but is not limited to, advises, 
recommends, furthers by overt act, and admits belief in. 
"Alien." 
^3) Xhe term "alien" means any person not a citizen or national of 
the United States. 
(4) The term "application for admission" has reference to the 
application for admission into the United States and not to the appli-
cation for the issuance of an immigrant or nonimmigrant visa. 
(5) The term "Attorney General" means the Attorney General of 
the United States. 
(6) The term "border crossing identification card" means a docu-
ment of identity bearing that designation issued to an alien who is 
lawfully admitted for permanent residence, or to an alien who is 
a resident in foreign contiguous territory, by a consular oiRcer or an 
immigration officer for the purpose of crossing over the borders be-
tween the United States and foreign contiguous territory in accord-
ance with such conditions for its issuance and use as may be prescribed 
by regulations, 
(7) The term "clerk of court" means a clerk of a naturalization 
court. 
(8) The terms "Commissioner" and "Deputy Commissioner" mean 
the Commissioner of Immigration and Naturalization and a Deputy 
Commissioner of Immigration and Naturalization, respectively. 
(9) The term "consular officer" means any consular, diplomatic, 
or other officer of the United States designated under regulations pre-
scribed under authority contained in this Act, for the purpose of 
issuing immigrant or nonimmigrant visas. In cases of aliens, in the 
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Canal Zone and the outlying possessions of the United States, the 
term "consular officer" means an officer designated by the Governor of 
the Canal Zone, or the governors of the outlying possessions, for the 
purpose of issuing immigrant or nonimmigrant visas under this Act. 
(10) The term "crewman" means a person serving in any capacity 
on board a vessel or aircraft. 
(11) The term "diplomatic visa" means a nonimmigrant visa bear-
ing that title and issued to a nonimmigrant in accordance with such 
regulations as the Secretary of State may prescribe. 
(12) The term "doctrine" includes, but is not limited to, policies, 
practices, purposes, aims, or procedures. 
(13) The term "entry" means any coming of an alien into the 
United States, from a foreign port or place or from an outlying posses-
sion, whether voluntarily or otherwise, except that an alien having a 
lawful permanent residence in the United States shall not be regarded 
as making an entry into the United States for the purposes of the im-
migration laws if the alien proves to the satisfaction of the Attorney 
General that his departure to a foreign port or place or to an outlying 
possession vras not intended or reasonably to be expected by him or his 
presence in a foreign port or place or in an outlying possession was not 
voluntary: Provided^ That no person whose departure from the United 
States was occasioned by deportation proceedings, extradition, or 
other legal process shall be held to be entitled to such exception. 
(14) The term "foreign state" includes outlying possessions of a 
foreign state, but self-governing dominions or territories under man-
date or trusteeship shall be regarded as separate foreign states. 
(15) The term "immigrant" means every alien except an alien who 
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is within one of the follovring classes of nonimmigrant aliens— 
(A) (i) an ambassador, public minister, or career diplomatic or 
consular officer who has been accredited by a foreign government 
recognized de jure by the United States and who is accepted by 
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the President or by the Secretary of State, and the members of the 
alien's immediate family; 
(ii) upon a basis of reciprocity, other officials and employees 
who have been accredited by a foreign government recognized de 
jure by the United States, who are accepted by the Secretary of 
State, and the members of their immediate families; and 
(iii) upon a basis of reciprocity, attendants, servants, personal 
employees, and members of their immediate families, of the offi-
cials and employees who have a nonimmigrant status under (i) 
and (ii) above; 
(B) an alien (other than one coming for the purpose of study 
or of performing skilled or unskilled labor or as a representative 
of foreign press, radio, film, or other foreign information media 
coming to engage in such vocation) having a residence in a foreign 
country which he has no intention of abandoning and who is visit-
ing the United States temporarily for business or temporarily for 
pleasure; 
(C) an alien in immediate and continuous transit through the 
United States, or an alien who qualifies as a person entitled to 
pass in transit to and from the United Nations Headquarters 
District and foreign countries, under the provisions of paragraphs 
(3), (4), and (5) of section 11 of the Headquarters Agreement 
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with the United Nations (61 Stat. 758); 
(D) an alien crewman serving in good faith as such in any 
capacity required for normal operation and service on board a 
vessel (other than a fishing vessel having its home port or an 
operating base in the United States) or aircraft, who intends to 
land temporarily and solely in pursuit of his calling as a crewman 
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and to depart from the United States with the vessel or aircraft 
on which he arrived or some other vessel or aircraft; 
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(E) an alien entitled to enter the United States under and in 
pursuance of the provisions of a treaty of commerce and naviga-
tion between the United States and the foreign state of which he 
is a national, and the spouse and children of any such alien if 
accompanying or following to join him: (i) solely to carry on 
substantial trade, principally between the United States and 
the foreign state of which he is a national; or (ii) solely to develop 
and direct the operations of an enterprise in which he has invested, 
or of an enterprise in which he is actively in the process of invest-
ing, a substantial amount of capital; 
(F) an alien having a residence in a foreign country which he 
has no intention of abandoning, who is a bona fide student quali-
fied to pursue a full course of study and who seeks to enter the 
United States temporarily and solely for the purpose of pursuing 
such a course of study at an established institution of learning or 
other recognized place of study in the United States, particularly 
designated by him and approved by the Attorney General after 
consultation with the Office of Education of the United States, 
which institution or place of study shall have agreed to report 
to the Attorney (General the termination of attendance of each 
nonimmigrant student, and if any such institution of learning or 
place of study fails to make reports promptly the approval shall 
be withdrawn; 
(G) (i) a designated principal resident representative of a 
foreign government recognized de jure by the United States, 
which foreign government is a member of an international organ-
ization entitled to enjoy privileges, exemptions, and immunities 
as an international organization under the International Organ-
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izatious Immunities Act (59 Stat. 669), accredited resident mem-
bers of the staff of such representatives, and members of his or 
their immediate family; 
(ii) other accredited representatives of such a foreign govern-
ment to such international organizations, and the members of 
their immediate families; 
(iii) an alien able to qualify under (i) or (ii) above except for 
the fact that the government of which such alien is an accredited 
representative is not recognized de jure by the United States, or 
that the government of which he is an accredited representative 
is not a member of such international organization, and the mem-
bers of his immediate family; 
(iv) officers, or employees of such international organizations, 
and the members of their immediate families; 
(v) attendants, servants, and personal employees of any such 
representative, officer, or employee, and the members of the imme-
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diate families 
of such attendants, servants, and 
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employees; 
(H) an alien having a residence in a foreign country which he 
has no intention of abandoning (i) who is of distinguished merit 
and ability and who is coming temporarily to the United States to 
perform temporary services of an exceptional nature requiring 
such merit and ability; or (ii) who is coming temporarily to the 
United States to perform other temporary services or labor, if 
unemployed persons capable of performing such service or labor 
cannot be found in this country; or (iii) who is coming tem-
porarily to the United States as an industrial trainee; 
(I) upon a basis of reciprocity, an alien who is a bona fide 
representative of foreign press, radio, film, or other foreign infor-
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matioii media, who seeks to enter the United States solely to 
engage in such vocation, and the spouse and children of such a 
representative, if accompanying or following to join him, 
(16) The term "immigrant visa" means an immigrant visa required 
by this Act and properly issued by a consular officer at his office outside 
of the United States to an eligible immigrant under the provisions of 
this Act. 
(17) The term "immigration laws" includes this Act and all laws, 
conventions, and treaties of the United States relating to the immigra-
tion, exclusion, deportation, or expulsion of aliens. 
(18) The term "immigration officer" means any employee or class 
of employees of the Service or of the United States designated by the 
Attorney General, individually or by regulation, to perform the func-
tions of an immigration officer specified by this Act or any section 
thereof. 
(19) The term "ineligible to citizenship," when used in reference to 
any individual, means, notwithstanding the provisions of any treaty 
relating to military service, an individual who is, or was at any time, 
permanently debarred from becoming a citizen of the United States 
under section o (a) of the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940, 
as amended (54 Stat. 885: 55 Stat. 844), or under section 4 (a) of 
the Selective Service Act of 1948, as amended (62 Stat. 605; 65 Stat. ^gSo uscapp.303, 
76), or under any section of this Act, or any other Act, or under any 
law amendatory of, supplementary to, or in substitution for, any of 
such sections or Acts. 
(20) The term "lawfully admitted for permanent residence" means 
the status of having been law fully accorded the privilege of residing 
permanently in the United States as an immigrant in accordance with 
the immigration laws, such status not having changed. 
(21) The term "national" means a person owing permanent alle- 
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giance to a state. 
(22) The term "national of the United States" means (A) a citizen 
of the United States, or (B) a person who, though not a citizen of the 
United States, owes permanent allegiance to the United States. 
(23) The term "naturalization" means the conferring of nationality 
of a state upon a person after birth, by any means whatsoever. 
(24) The term "naturalization court", unless otherwise particularly 
described, means a court authorized by section 310 (a) of title III to 
exercise naturalization jurisdiction. 
(25) The term "noncombatant service" shall not include service in 
which the individual is not subject to military discipline, court 
martial, or does not wear the uniform of any branch of the armed 
forces. 
(26) The term "nonimmigrant visa" means a visa properly issued 
to an alien as an eligible nonimmigrant by a competent officer as pro-
vided in this Act. 
(27) The term "nonquota immigrant" means— 
(A) an immigrant who is the child or the spouse of a citizen 
of the United States; 
(B) an immigrant, lawfully admitted for permanent residence, 
who is returning from a temporary visit abroad; 
(C) an immigrant who was born in Canada, the Republic of 
Mexico, the Republic of Cuba, the Republic of Haiti, the Domini-
can Republic, the Canal Zone, or an independent country of Cen-
tral or South America, and the spouse or the child of any such 
immigrant, if accompanying or following to join him; 
(D) an immigrant who was a citizen of the United States and 
may, under section 324 (a) or 327 of title III, apply for reacquisi-
tion of citizenship; 
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(E) an immigrant included within the second proviso to sec-
tion 349 (a) (1) of title-III; 
(F) (i) an immigrant who continuously for at least two years 
immediately preceding the time of his application for admission 
to the United States has been, and who seeks to enter the United 
States solely for the purpose of carrying on the vocation of min-
ister of a religious denomination, and whose services are needed 
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by such religious denomination having a bona fide organization 
in the United States; and (ii) the spouse or the child of any such 
immigrant, if accompanying or following to join him; or 
(G) an immigrant who is an employee, or an honorably retired 
former employee, of the United States Government abroad, and 
who has performed faithful service for a total of fifteen years, or 
more, and his accompanying spouse and children: Provided^ That 
the principal officer of a Foreign Service establishment, in his 
discretion, shall have recommended the granting of nonquota 
status to such alien in exceptional circumstances and the Secretary 
of State approves such recommendation and finds that it is in the 
national interest to grant such status. 
(28) The term "organization" means, but is not limited to, an 
organization, corporation, company, partnership, association, trust, 
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foundation or fund; and includes a group of persons, whether or not 
incorporated, permanently or temporarily associated together with 
joint action on any subject or subjects. 
(29) The term "outlying possessions of the United States" means 
American Samoa and Swains Island. 
(30) The term "passport" means any travel document issued by 
competent authority showing the bearer's origin, identity, and nation-
ality if any, w^hich is valid for the entry of the bearer into a foreign 
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(31) The term "permanent" means a relationship of continuing or 
lasting nature, as distinguished from temporary, but a relationship 
may be permanent even though it is one that may be dissolved eventu-
ally at the instance either of the United States or of the individual, 
in accordance with law. 
(32) The term "quota immigrant" means any immigrant who is not 
a nonquota immigrant. An alien who is not particularly specified in 
this Act as a nonquota immigrant or a nonimmigrant shall not be 
admitted or considered in any manner to be either a nonquota immi-
grant or a nonimmigrant notwithstanding his relationship to any 
individual w^ho is so specified or by reason of being excepted from 
the operation of any other law regulating or forbidding immigration. 
(33) The term "residence" means the place of general abode; the 
place of general abode of a person means his principal, actual dw^elling 
place in fact, without regard to intent. Residence shall be considered 
continuous for the purposes of sections 350 and 352 of title III where 
there is a continuity of stay but not necessarily an uninterrupted physi-
cal presence in a foreign state or states or outside the United States. 
(34) The term "Service" means the Immigration and Naturaliza-
tion Service of the Department of Justice. 
(35) The term "spouse", "wife", or "husband" do not include a 
spouse, wife, or husband by reason of any marriage ceremony where 
the contracting parties thereto are not physically present in the pres-
ence of each other, vinless the marriage shall have been consummated. 
(36) The term "State" includes (except as used in section 310 (a) 
of title III) Alaska, Hawaii, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, 
Guam, and the Virgin Islands of the United States. 
(37) The term "totalitarian party" means an organization which 
advocates the establishment in the United States of a totalitarian 
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dictatorship or totalitarianism. The terms "totalitarian dictatorship*' 
and "totalitarianism" mean and refer to systems of government not 
representative in fact, characterized by (A) the existence of a single 
political party, organized on a dictatorial basis, with so close an 
identity between such party and its policies and the governmental 
policies of the country in which it exists, that the party and the gov-
ernment constitute an indistinguishable unit, and (B) the forcible 
suppression of opposition to such party. 
(38) The term "United States", except as otherwise specifically 
herein provided, when used in a geographical sense, means the con-
tinental United States, Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, Guam, and the 
Virgin Islands of the United States. 
(39) The term "unmarried", when used in reference to any indi-
vidual as of any time, means an individual who at such time is not 
married, whether or not previously married. 
(40) The term "world communism" means a revolutionary move-
ment, the purpose of which is to establish eventually a Communist 
totalitarian dictatorship in any or all the countries of the world 
through the medium of an internationally coordinated Communist 
political movement. 
(b) As used in titles I and II— 
(1) The term "child" means an unmarried person under twenty-one 
years of age who is— 
(A) a legitimate child; or 
(B) a stepchild, provided the child had not reached the age of 
eighteen years at the time the marriage creating the status of 
stepchild occurred; or 
(C) a child legitimated under the law of the child's residence 
or domicile, or under the law of the father's residence or domicile, 
whether in or outside the United States, if such legitimation takes 
place before the child reaches the age of eighteen years and the 
child is in the legal custody of the legitimating parent or parents 
at the time of such legitimation. 
(2) The terms "parent", "father", or "mother" mean a parent, 
father, or mother only where the relationship exists by reason of any 
of the circumstances set forth in (1) above. 
(3) The term "person" means an individual or an organization. 
(4) The term "special inquiry officer" means any immigration officer 
who the Attorney General deems specially qualified to conduct speci-
fied classes of proceedings, in whole or in part, required by this Act 
to be conducted by or before a special inquiry officer and who is 
designated and selected by the Attorney General, individually or by 
regulation, to conduct such proceedings. 
Such special inquiry officer 
shall be subject to such supervision and shall perform such duties, not 
inconsistent with this Act, as the Attorney General shall prescribe. 
(5) The term "adjacent islands" includes Saint Pierre, Miquelon, 
Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Bermuda, the Bahamas, Barba-
dos, Jamaica, the Windward and Leeward Islands, Trinidad, Marti-
nique, and other British, French, and Netherlands territory or posses-
sions in or bordering on the Caribbean Sea. 
(c) As used in title III— 
(1) The term "child" means an unmarried person under twenty-one 
years of age and includes a child legitimated under the law of the 
child's residence or domicile, or under the law of the father's residence 
or domicile, whether in the United States or elsewhere, and, except as 
otherwise provided in sections 320, 321, 322, and 323 of title III, a 
child adopted in the United States, if such legitimation or adoption 
takes place before the child reaches the age of sixteen years, and the 
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child is in the legal custody of the legitimating or adopting parent 
or parents at the time of such legitimation or adoption. 
(2) The terms "parent", "fatlier", and "mother'' include in the case 
of a posthumous child a deceased parent, father, and mother. 
(d) As used in chapter 3 of title III— 
(1) The term "veteran" means a person who served in the armed 
forces of the United States at any time in an active-duty status during 
the period from April 21, 1898, to August 12, 1898, or from April 6, 
1917, to November 11,1918, or from December 7,1941, to December 31, 
1946, all dates inclusive, and who was discharged therefrom under 
honorable conditions. 
The records of the armed forces shall be con-
clusive as to type of a discharge and as to whether the conditions under 
which a discharge was given were honorable. 
(2) (A) The term "Spanish-American War" relates to the period 
from April 21,1898, to August 12,1898; (B) the term "World War I" 
relates to the period from April 6, 1917, to November 11, 1918; and 
(C) the term "World War I I " relates to the period from December 
7,1941, to December 31,1946, all dates inclusive. 
(e) For the purposes of this Act— 
(1) The giving, loaning, or promising of support or of money or 
any other thing of value to be used for advocating any doctrine shall 
constitute the advocating of such doctrine; but nothing in this para-
graph shall be construed as an exclusive definition of advocating. 
(2) The giving, loaning, or promising of support or of money or 
any other thing of value for any purpose to any organization shall 
be presumed to constitute affiliation therewith; but nothing in this 
paragraph shall be construed as an exclusive definition of affiliation. 
(3) Advocating the economic, international, and governmental doc-
trines of world communism means advocating the establishment of a 
totalitarian Communist dictatorship in any or all of the countries of 
the world through the medium of an internationally coordinated Com-
munist movement. 
(f) For the purposes of this Act— 
No person shall be regarded as, or found to be, a person of good 
moral character who, during the period for which good moral char-
acter is required to be established, is, or was— 
(1) a habitual drunkard; 
(2) one who during such period has committed adultery ; 
(3) a member of one or more of the classes of persons, whether 
excludable or not, described in paragraphs (11), (12), and (31) 
of section 212 (a) of this Act; or paragraphs (9), (10), and (23) 
of section 212 (a), if the offense described therein, for which 
such person was convicted or of which he admits the commission, 
was committed during such period; 
(4) one whose income is derived principally from illegal 
gambling activities; 
(5) one who has been convicted of two or more gambling 
offenses committed during such period; 
(6) one who has given false testimony for the purpose of obtain-
ing any benefits under this Act; 
(7) one who during such period has been confined, as a result 
of conviction, to a penal institution for an aggregate period of 
one hundred and eighty days or more, regardless of whether the 
offense, or offenses, for which he has been confined were committed 
within or without such period; 
(8) one who at any time has been convicted of the crime of 
murder. 
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The fact that any person is not within any of the foregoing classes 
shall not preclude a finding that for other reasons such person is or 
was not of good moral character. 
(g) For the purposes of this Act any alien ordered deported 
(whether before or after the enactment of this Act) who has left the 
United States, shall be considered to have been deported in pursuance 
of law, irrespective of the source from which the expenses of his 
transportation were defrayed or of the place to which he departed. 
APPLICABILITY OF TITLE II TO CERTAIN 
NONIMMIGRANTS 
SEC. 102. Except as otherwise provided in this Act, for so long as 
they continue in the nonimmigrant classes enumerated in this section, 
the provisions of this Act relating to ineligibility to receive visas and 
the exclusion or deportation of aliens shall not be construed to apply 
to nonimmigrants— 
(1) within the class described in paragraph (15) (A) (i) of 
section 101 (a), except those provisions relating to reasonable 
requirements of passports and visas as a means of identification 
and documentation necessary to establish their qualifications 
under such paragraph (15) (A) (i), and, under such rules and 
regulations as the President may deem to be necessary, the provi-
sions of paragraph (27) of section 212 (a) ; 
(2) within the class described in paragraph (15) (G) (i) of 
section 101 (a), except those provisions relating to reasonable 
requirements of passports and visas as a means of identification 
and documentaion necessary to establish their qualifications under 
such paragraph (15) (G) (i), and the provisions of paragraph 
(27) of section 212 (a) ; and 
(3) within the classes described in paragraphs (15) (A) (ii), 
(15) (G) (ii), (15) (G) (iii),or (15) (G) (iv) of section 101 
(a), except those provisions relating to reasonable requirements 
of passports and visas as a means of identification and documen-
tation necessary to establish their qualifications under such para-
graphs, and the provisions of paragraphs (27) and (29) of 
section 212 (a). 
POWERS AND DUTIES OF T H E ATTORNEY GENERAL AND THE COMMISSIONER 
SEC. 103. (a) The Attorney General shall be charged with the 
administration and enforcement of this Act and all other laws relating 
to the immigration and naturalization of aliens, except insofar as this 
Act or such laws relate to the powers, functions, and duties conferred 
upon the President, the Secretary of State, the officers of the Depart-
ment of State, or diplomatic or consular officers: Provided^ hoicever^ 
That determination and ruling by the Attorney General with respect 
to all questions of l
a
A
V shall be controlling. 
He shall have control, 
direction, and supervision of all employees and of all the files and 
records of the Service. 
He shall establish such regulations; prescribe 
such forms of bond, reports, entries, and other papers; issue such 
intructions; and perform such other acts as he deems necessary for 
carrying out his authority under the provisions of this Act. 
He is 
authorized, in accordance with the civil-service laws and regulations 
and the Classification Act of 1949, to appoint such employees of the 
s^us*c*ion'*note 
Service as he deems necessary, and to delegate to them or to any officer 
or employee of the Department of Justice in his discretion any of the 
duties and powers imposed upon him in this Act; he may require or 
authorize any employee of the Service or the Department of Justice 
to perform or exercise any of the powers, privileges, or duties con-
ferred or imposed by this Act or regulations issued thereunder upon 
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any other employee of the Service. He sliall have the power and duty 
to control and guard the boundaries and borders of the United States 
against the illegal entry of aliens and shall, in his discretion, appoint 
for that purpose such number of employees of the Service as to him 
shall appear necessary and proper. 
He is authorized to confer or 
impose upon any employee of the United States, with the consent of 
the head of the Department or other independent establishment under 
whose jurisdiction the employee is serving, any of the powers, priv-
ileges, or duties conferred or imposed by this Act or regulations issued 
thereunder upon officers or employees of the Service. 
He may, with 
the concurrence of the Secretary of State, establish offices of the Serv-
ice in foreign countries; and, after consultation with the Secretary of 
State, he may, whenever in his judgment such action may be necessary 
to accomplish the purposes of this Act, detail employees of the Service 
for duty in foreign countries. 
(b) The Commissioner shall be a citizen of the United States and 
shall be apj)ointed by the President, by and with the advice and con-
sent of the Senate, and shall receive compensation at the rate of $17,500 
per annum. 
He shall be charged with any and all responsibilities and 
authority in the administration of the Service and of this Act which 
are conferred upon the Attorney General as may be delegated to him 
l)y the Attorney General or which may be prescribed by the Attorney 
General. 
POWERS AND DUTIES OF T H E SECRETARY OF STATE; BUREAU OF SECURITY 
AND CONSULAR AFFAIRS 
SEC. 104. (a) The Secretary of State shall be charged with the ad-
ministration and the enforcement of the provisions of this Act and all 
other immigration and nationality laws relating to (1) the powers, 
duties and functions of diplomatic and consular officers of the United 
States, except those powers, duties and functions conferred upon the 
consular officers relating to the granting or refusal of visas; (2) the 
powers, duties and functions of the Bureau of Security and Consular 
Affairs; and (3) the determination of nationality of a person not in 
the United States. 
He shall establish such regulations; prescribe 
such forms of reports, entries and other papers; issue such instruc-
tions; and perform such other acts as he deems necessary for carrying 
out such provisions. 
He is authorized to confer or impose upon any 
employee of the United States, with the consent of the head of the 
department or independent establishment under whose jurisdiction 
the employee is serving, any of the powers, functions, or duties con-
ferred or imposed by this Act or regulations issued thereunder upon 
officers or employees of the Department of State or of the American 
Foreign Service. 
(b) There is hereby established in the Department of State a 
Bureau of Security and Consular Affairs, to be headed by an admin-
istrator (with an appropriate title to be designated by the Secretary 
of State), with rank and compensation equal to that of an Assistant 
Secretary of State. 
The administrator shall be a citizen of the United 
States, qualified by experience, and shall maintain close liaison with 
the appropriate committees of Congress in order that they may be 
advised regarding the administration of this Act by consular officers. 
pj,„\ 
; 
He shall be charged with any and all responsibility and authority 
in the administration of the Bureau and of this Act which are con-
ferred on the Secretary of State as may be delegated to him by the 
Secretary of State or which may be prescribed by the Secretary of 
State. 
He shall also perform such other duties as the Secretary of 
State may prescribe. 
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(c) Within the Bureau there shall be a Passport Office, a Visa Office, 
and such other offices as the Secretary of State may deem to be appro-
priate, each office to be headed by a director. 
The Directors of the 
Passport Office and the Visa Office shall be experienced in the admin-
istration of the nationality and immigration laws, 
(d) The functions heretofore performed by the Passport Division 
and the Visa Division of the Department of State shall hereafter be 
performed by the Passport Office and the Visa Office, respectively, of 
the Bureau of Security and Consular Affairs. 
(e) There shall be a General Counsel of the Visa Office, who shall 
be appointed by the Secretary of State and who shall serve under 
the general direction of the Legal Adviser of the Department of 
State. The General Counsel shall have authority to maintain liaison 
with the appropriate officers of the Service with a view to securing 
uniform interpretations of the provisions of this Act. 
(f) The Bureau shall be under the immediate jurisdiction of the 
Deputy Under Secretary of State for Administration. 
LIAISON W I T H INTERNAL SECURITY OFFICERS 
SEC. 105. The Commissioner and the administrator shall have author-
ity to maintain direct and continuous liaison with the Directors of the 
Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Central Intelligence Agency 
and with other internal security officers of the Government for the 
purpose of obtaining and exchanging information for use in enforc-
ing the provisions of this Act in the interest of the internal security 
of the United States. The Commissioner and the administrator shall 
maintain direct and continuous liaison with each other with a view to 
a coordinated, uniform, and efficient administration of this Act, and 
all other immigration and nationality laws. 
TITLE II—IMMIGRATION 
CHAPTER 1—QUOTA SYSTEM 
NUMERICAL LIMITATIONS ; ANNUAL QUOTA BASED UPON NATIONAL ORIGIN ; 
MINIMUM QUOTAS 
SEC. 201. (a) The annual quota of any quota area shall be one-sixth 
of 1 per centum of the number of inhabitants in the continental United 
States in 1920, which number, except for the purpose of computing 
quotas for quota areas within the Asia-Pacific triangle, shall be the 
same number heretofore determined under the provisions of section 
11 of the Immigration Act of 1924, attributable by national origin to 
i^i^ichH^' 
such quota area: Provided, That the quota existing for Chinese per-
sons prior to the date of enactment of this Act shall be continued, 
and, except as otherwise provided in section 202 (e), the minimum 
quota for any quota area shall be one hundred. 
(b) The determination of the annual quota of any quota area shall 
be made by the Secretary of State, the Secretary of Commerce, and the 
Attorney General, jointly. 
Such officials shall, jointly, report to the 
Proclamation. 
President the quota of each quota area, and the President shall pro-
claim and make known the quotas so reported. Such determination 
and report shall be made and such proclamation shall be issued as 
soon as practicable after the date of enactment of this Act. 
Quotas 
proclaimed therein shall take effect on the first day of the fiscal year, 
or the next fiscal half year, next following the expiration of six months 
after the date of the proclamation, and until such date the existing 
t^usc^aoi?' 
quotas proclaimed under the Immigration Act of 1924 shall remain 
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in effect. After the making of a proclamation under this subsection 
the quotas proclaimed therein shall continue with the same effect as 
if specifically stated herein and shall be final and conclusive for every 
purpose, except (1) insofar as it is made to appear to the satisfaction 
of such officials and proclaimed by the President, that an error of fact 
has occurred in such determination or in such proclamation, or (2) 
in the case provided for in section 202 (e). 
(c) There shall be issued to quota immigrants chargeable to any 
quota (1) no more immigrant visas in any fiscal year than the quota 
for such year, and (2) in any calendar month of any fiscal year, no 
more immigrant visas than 10 per centum of the quota for such year; 
except that during the last two months of any fiscal year immigrant 
visas may be issued without regard to the 10 per centum limitation 
contained herein. 
(d) Nothing in this Act shall prevent the issuance (without increas-
ing the total number of quota immigrant visas which may be issued) 
of an immigrant visa to an immigrant as a quota immigrant even 
though he is a nonquota immigrant. 
(e) The quota numbers available under the annual quotas of each 
quota area proclaimed under this Act shall be reduced by the number 
of quota numbers which have been ordered to be deducted from the 
annual quotas authorized prior to the effective date of the annual 
quotas proclaimed under this Act under— 
8^iFsc\ss^' 
(1) section 19 (c) of the Immigration Act of 1917, as amended; 
souscap?Pi9si 
^^) *'^® Displaced Persons Act of 1948, as amended; and 
note. 
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(3) any other Act of Congress enacted prior to the effective date 
of the quotas proclaimed under this Act. 
DETERMINATION OF QUOTA TO W H I C H A N IMMIGRANT IS CHARGEABLE 
SEC. 202. (a) Each independent country, self-governing dominion, 
mandated territory, and territory under the international trusteeship 
system of the United Nations, other than the United States and its 
outlying possessions and the countries specified in section 101 (a) 
(27) (C), shall be treated as a separate quota area when approved by 
the Secretary of State. All other inhabited lands shall be attributed 
to a quota area specified by the Secretary of State. For the purposes 
of this Act, the annual quota to which an immigrant is chargeable 
shall be determined by birth within a quota area, except that— 
(1) an alien child, when accompanied by his alien parent or 
parents may be charged to the quota of the accompanying parent 
or of either accompanying parent if such parent has received or 
would be qualified for an immigrant visa, if necessary to prevent 
the separation of the child from the accompanying parent or 
parents, and if the quota to which such parent has been or would 
be chargeable is not exhausted for that fiscal year; 
(2) if an alien is chargeable to a different quota from that of 
his accompanying spouse, the quota to which such alien is charge-
able may, if necessary to prevent the separation of husband and 
wife, be determined by the quota of the accompanying spouse, if 
such spouse has received or would be qualified for an immigrant 
visa and if the quota to which such spouse has been or would be 
chargeable is not exhausted for that fiscal year; 
(3) an alien born in the United States shall be considered as 
having been born in the country of which he is a citizen or subject, 
or if he is not a citizen or subject of any country then in the last 
^ 
foreign country in which he had his residence as determined by 
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the consular officer; 
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(4) an alien born within any quota area ni which neither of his 
parents was born and in which neither of his parents had a resi-
dence at the time of such alien's birth may be charged to the quota 
area of either parent; 
(5) notwithstanding the provisions of paragraphs (2), (3), 
and (4) of this subsection, any alien who is attributable by as 
much as one-half of his ancestry to a people or peoples indigenous 
to the Asia-Pacific triangle defined in subsection (b) of this sec-
tion, unless such alien is entitled to a nonquota immigrant status 
under paragraph (27) (A), (27) (B), (27) (D), (27) (E), 
(27) (F), or (27) (G) of section 101 (a), shall be chargeable to a 
quota as specified in subsection (b) of this section: Provided^ 
That the child of an alien defined in section 101 (a) (27) (C), if 
accompanying or following to join him, shall be classified under 
section 101 (a) (27) (C), notwithstanding the provisions of 
subsection (b) of this section. 
(b) With reference to determination of the quota to which shall be 
Asia-Pacific. 
chargeable an immigrant who is attributable by as much as one-half 
of his ancestry to a people or peoples indigenous to the Asia-Pacific 
triangle comprising all quota areas and all colonies and other depend-
ent areas situate wholly east of the meridian sixty degrees east of 
Greenwich, wholly west of the meridian one hundred and sixty-five 
degrees west, and wholly north of the parallel twenty-five degrees 
south latitude— 
(1) there is hereby established, in addition to quotas for sepa-
rate quota areas comprising independent countries, self-govern-
ing dominions, and territories under the international trusteeship 
system of the United Nations situate wholly within said Asia-
Pacific triangle, an Asia-Pacific quota of one hundred annually, 
which quota shall not be subject to the provisions of subsec-
tion (e); 
(2) such immigrant born within a separate quota area situate 
wholly within such Asia-Pacific triangle shall not be chargeable 
to the Asia-Pacific quota, but shall be chargeable to the quota 
for the separate quota area in which he was born; 
(3) such immigrant born within a colony or other dependent 
area situate wholly within said Asia-Pacific triangle shall be 
chargeable to the Asia-Pacific quota; 
(4) such immigrant born outside the Asia-Pacific triangle who 
is attributable by as much as one-half of his ancestry to a people 
or peoples indigenous to not more than one separate quota area, 
situate wholly within the Asia-Pacific triangle, shall be chargeable 
to the quota of that quota area; 
(5) such immigrant born outside the Asia-Pacific triangle who 
is attributable by as much as one-half of his ancestry to a people 
or peoples indigenous to one or more colonies or other dependent 
areas situate w^holly within the Asia-Pacific triangle, shall be 
chargeable to the Asia-Pacific quota; 
(6) such immigrant born outside the Asia-Pacific triangle who 
is attributable by as much as one-half of his ancestry to peoples 
indigenous to two or more separate quota areas situate wholly 
within the Asia-Pacific triangle, or to a quota area or areas and 
one or more colonies and other dependent areas situate wholly 
therein, shall be chargeable to the Asia-Pacific quota. 
(c) Any immigrant born in a colony or other component or depend-
ent area of a governing country for which no separate or specific quota 
has been established, unless a nonquota immigrant as provided in 
section 101 (a) (27) of this Act, shall be chargeable to the quota of 
the governing country, except that (1) not more than one hundred 
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persons born in any one such colony or other component or dependent 
area overseas from the governing country shall be chargeable to the 
quota of its governing country in any one year, and (2) any such 
immigrant, if attributable by as much as one-half of his ancestry to 
a people or peoples indigenous to the Asia-Pacific triangle, shall be 
chargeable to a quota as provided in subsection (b) of this section. 
(d) The provision of an immigration quota for a quota area shall 
not constitute recognition by the United States of the political transfer 
of territory from one country to another, or recognition of a govern-
ment not recognized by the United States. 
Revision. 
(e) After the determination of quotas has been made as provided in 
section 201, revision of the quotas shall be made by the Secretary of 
State, the Secretary of Commerce, and the Attorney General, jointly, 
whenever necessary, to provide for any change of boundaries resulting 
in transfer of territory from one sovereignty to another, a change of 
administrative arrangements of a colony or other dependent area, or 
. 
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any other political change, requiring a change in the list of quota areas 
or of the territorial limits thereof, but any increase in the number of 
minimum quota areas above twenty within the Asia-Pacific triangle 
shall result in a proportionate decrease in each minimum quota of 
such area in order that the sum total of all minimum quotas within the 
Asia-Pacific triangle shall not exceed two thousand. 
In the case of 
any change in the territorial limits of quota areas, not requiring a 
change in the quotas for such areas, the Secretary of State shall, upon 
recognition of such change, issue appropriate instructions to all con-
sular offices concerning the change in the territorial limits of the quota 
areas involved. 
ALLOCATION OF IMMIGRANT VISAS W I T H I N QUOTAS 
SEC. 203. (a) Immigrant visas to quota immigrants shall be allotted 
in each fiscal year as follows: 
(1) The first 50 per centum of the quota of each quota area for 
such year, plus any portion of such quota not required for the 
issuance of immigrant Aasas to the classes specified in paragraphs 
(2) and (3), shall be made available for the issuance of immigrant 
visas (A) to qualified quota immigrants whose services are deter-
mined by the Attorney General to be needed urgently in the 
United States because of the high education, technical training, 
specialized experience, or exceptional ability of such immigrants 
and to be substantially beneficial prospectively to the national 
economy, cultural interests, or w^elfare of the United States, and 
(B) to qualified quota immigrants who are the spouse or children 
of any immigrant described in clause (A) if accompanying him. 
(2) The next 30 per centum of the quota for each quota area 
for such year, plus any portion of such quota not required for the 
issuance of immigrant visas to the classes specified in paragraphs 
(1) and (3), shall be made available for the issuance of immigrant 
visas to qualified quota immigrants who are the parents of citizens 
of the United States, such citizens being at least twenty-one years 
of age. 
(3) The remaining 20 per centum of the quota for each quota 
area for such year, plus any portion of such quota not required for 
the issuance of immigrant visas to the classes specified in para-
graphs (1) and (2), shall be made available for the issuance of 
immigrant visas to qualified quota immigrants who are the spouses 
or the children of aliens lawfully admitted for permanent resi-
dence. 
(4) Any portion of the quota for each quota area for such year 
not required for the issuance of immigrant visas to the classes 
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specified in paragraphs (1), (2), and (8) shall be made available 
for the issuance of immigrant visas to other qualified quota immi-
grants chargeable to such quota. 
Qualified quota immigrants of 
each quota area who are the brothers, sisters, sons, or daughters of 
citizens of the United States shall be entitled to a preference of 
not exceeding 25 per centum of the immigrant visas available for 
issuance for each quota area under this paragraph. 
(b) Quota immigrant visas issued pursuant to paragraph (1) of 
subsection (a) shall, in the case of each quota area, be issued to eligible 
quota immigrants in the order in which a petition on behalf of each 
such immigrant is filed with the Attorney General as provided in 
section 204; and shall be issued in the first calendar month after receipt 
of notice of approval of such petition in which a quota number is 
available for an immigrant chargeable to such quota area. 
(c) Quota immigrant visas issued to aliens in the classes designated 
in paragraphs (2), (3), and (4) of subsection (a) shall, in the case of 
each quota, be issued to qualified quota immigrants strictly in the 
chronological order in which such immigrants are registered in each 
class on quota waiting lists which shall be maintained for each quota 
in accordance with regulations prescribed by the Secretary of State. 
(d) In determining the order for consideration of applications for 
quota immigrant visas under subsection (a), consideration shall be 
given first to applications under paragraph (1), second to applications 
under paragraph (2), third to applications under paragraph (3), 
and fourth to applications under paragraph (4). 
(e) Every immigrant shall be presumed to be a quota immigrant 
until he establishes to the satisfaction of the consular officer, at the 
time of application for a visa, and to the immigration officers, at the 
time of application for admission, that he is a nonquota immigrant. 
Every quota immigrant shall be presumed to be a nonpreference quota 
immigrant until he establishes to the satisfaction of the consular officer 
and the immigration officers that he is entitled to a ])reference quota 
status under paragraph (1), (2), or (3) of subsection (a) or to a 
preference under paragraph (4) of such subsection. 
PROCEDURE FOR GRANTING IMMIGRANT STATUS UNDER SECTION 1 0 1 
( a ) 
( 2 7 ) 
(F) ( i ) OR SECTION 2 0 3 ( a ) 
( 1 ) 
(A) 
SEO. 204. (a) In the case of any alien claiming in his application 
for an immigrant visa to be entitled to an immigrant status under 
section 101 (a) (27) (F) (i) or section 203 (a) (1) (A), the consular 
officer shall not grant such status until he has been authorized to do 
so as provided in this section. 
(b) Any person, institution, firm, organization, or governmental 
agency desiring to have an alien classified as an immigrant under sec-
tion 101 (a) (27) (F) (i) or section 203 (a) (1) (A) shall file a 
petition with the Attorney General for such classification of the alien. 
The petition shall be in such form as the Attorney General may by 
regulations prescribe and shall state the basis for the need of the 
services of such alien and contain such additional information and be 
supported by such documentary evidence as may be required by the 
Attorney General. The petition shall be made under oath admin-
istered by any individual having authority to administer oaths, if 
executed in the United States, but, if executed outside the United 
States, administered by a consular officer. 
(c) After an investigation of the facts in each case, and after con-
sultation with appropriate agencies of the Government, the Attorney 
General shall, if he determines that the facts stated in the petition are 
true and that the alien in respect of whom the petition is made is 
Petition. 
Approval. 
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Restriction. 
eligible for an immigrant status under section 101 (a) (27) (F) (i) 
or section 203 (a) (1) (A), approve the petition and forward one 
copy thereof to the Department of State. 
The Secretary of State 
shall then authorize the consular officer concerned to grant such im-
migrant status. 
(d) Nothing in this section shall be construed to entitle an immi-
grant, in respect of whom a petition under this section is approved, 
to enter the United States as an immigrant under section 101 (a) (27) 
(F) (i) or section 203 (a) (1) (A) if upon his arrival at a port of 
entry in the United States he is found not to be entitled to such classi-
fication. 
, 
Petition. 
Approval. 
Restriction. 
PROCEDUKE FOR GRANTING NONQUOTA STATUS OR PREFERENCE BY REASON 
OF RELATIONSHIP 
SEC. 205. (a) In the case of any alien claiming in his application 
for an immigrant visa to be entitled to a nonquota immigrant status 
under section 101 (a) (27) (A), or to a quota immigrant status under 
section 203 (a) (2) or 203 (a) (3), or to a preference under section 203 
(a) (4), the consular officer shall not grant such status or preference 
until he has been authorized to do so as provided in this section. 
(b) Any citizen of the United States claiming that any immigrant 
is his spouse or child and that such immigrant is entitled to a nonquota 
immigrant status under section 101 (a) (27) (A), or any citizen of the 
United States claiming that any immigrant is his parent and that such 
immigrant is entitled to a quota immigrant status under section 203 (a) 
(2), or any alien lawfully admitted for permanent residence claiming 
that any immigrant is his spouse or child and that such immigrant is 
entitled to a quota immigrant status under section 203 (a) (3), or any 
citizen of the United States claiming that any immigrant is his 
brother, sister, son, or daughter and that such immigrant is entitled 
to a preference under section 203 (a) (4) may file a petition wath 
the Attorney General. The petition shall be in such form and shall 
contain such information and be supported by such documentary 
evidence as the Attorney General may by regulations prescribe. The 
petition shall be made under oath administered by any individual 
having authority to administer oaths, if executed in the United States, 
but, if executed outside the United States, administered by a consular 
officer. 
(c) After an investigation of the facts in each case the Attorney 
General shall, if he determines the facts stated in the petition are true 
and that the alien in respect of whom the petition is made is eligible 
for a nonquota immigrant status under section 101 (a) (27) (A), or 
for a quota immigrant status under section 203 (a) (2) oi 203 (a) (3), 
or for a preference under section 203 (a) (4), approve the petition 
and f 
orw ard one copy thereof to the Department of State. The Secre-
tary of State shall then authorize the consular officer concerned to 
grant the nonquota immigrant status, quota immigrant status, or 
preference, as the case may be. 
(d) Nothing in this section shall be construed to entitle an immi-
grant, in respect of whom a petition under this section is approved, 
to enter the United States as a nonquota immigrant under section 101 
(a) (27) (A) if upon his arrival at a port of entry in the United 
States he is found not to be entitled to such classification, or to enter 
the United States as a quota immigrant under section 203 (a) (2) or 
203 (a) (3) if upon his arrival at a port of entry in the United States 
he is found not to be entitled to such classification, or to enter the 
United States as a preference quota immigrant under section 203 
(a) (4) if upon his arrival at a port of entry in the United States he 
is found not to be entitled to such preference. 
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REVOCATION Or APPROVAL OF PETITIONS 
SEC. 206. The Attorney General may, at any time, for what he deems 
to be good and sufficient cause, revoke the approval of any petition 
approved by him under section 204, section 205, or section 214 (c) of 
this title. Such revocation shall be effective as of the date of approval 
of any such petition. In no case, however, shall such revocation have 
effect unless there is mailed to the petitioner's last known address a 
notice of the revocation and unless notice of the revocation is com-
municated through the Secretary of State to the beneficiary of the 
petition before such beneficiary commences his journey to the United 
States. If notice of revocation is not so given, and the beneficiary 
applies for admission to the United States, his admissibility shall be 
determined in the manner provided for by sections 235 and 236. 
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UNUSED QUOTA IMMIGRANT VISAS 
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SEC. 207. If a quota immigrant having an immigrant visa is excluded 
from admission to the United States and deported, or does not apply for 
admission to the United States before the expiration of the validity of 
the immigrant visa, or if an alien having an immigrant visa issued 
to him as a quota immigrant is found not to be a quota immigrant, 
no immigrant visa shall be issued in lieu thereof to any other 
immigrant. 
CHAPTER 2—QUALIFICATIONS FOR ADMISSION OF ALIENS ; TRAVEL 
CONTROL OF CITIZENS AND ALIENS 
DOCUMENTARY REQUIREMENTS 
SEC. 211. (a) No immigrant shall be admitted into the United States 
unless at the time of application for admission he (1) has a valid un-
expired immigrant visa or was born subsequent to the issuance of such 
immigrant visa of the accompanying parent, (2) is properly chargeable 
to the quota specified in the immigrant visa, (3) is a nonquota immi-
grant if specified as such in the immigrant visa, (4) is of the proper 
status under the quota specified in the immigrant visa, and (5) is 
otherwise admissible under this Act. 
(b) Notwithstanding the provisions of section 212 (a) (20) of this 
Act, in such cases or in such classes of cases and under such conditions 
as may be by regulations prescribed, otherwise admissible aliens 
lawfully admitted for permanent residence who depart from the 
United States temporarily may be readmitted to the United States by 
the Attorney General in his discretion without being required to 
obtain a passport, immigrant visa, reentry permit or other docu-
mentation. 
(c) The Attorney General may in his discretion, subject to sub-
section (d), admit to the United States any otherwise admissible immi-
grant not admissible under clause (2), (3), or (4) of subsection (a), 
if satisfied that such inadmissibility was not known to and could 
not have been ascertained by the exercise of reasonable diligence by, 
such immigrant prior to the departure of the vessel or aircraft from the 
last port outside the United States and outside foreign contiguous 
territory, or, in the case of an immigrant coming from foreign con-
tiguous territory, prior to the application of the immigrant for 
admission. 
(d) No quota immigrant within clause (2) or (3) of subsection (a) 
shall be admitted under subsection (c) if the entire number of immi-
grant visas which may be issued to quota immigrants under the same 
quota for the fiscal year, or the next fiscal year, has already been issued. 
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If such entire number of immigrant visas has not been issued, the Sec-
retary of State, upon notification by the Attorney General of the 
admission under subsection (c) of a quota immigrant within clause (2) 
or (3) of subsection (a), shall reduce by one the number of immi-
grant visas which may be issued to quota immigrants under the same 
quota during the fiscal year in which such immigrant is admitted, or, 
if the entire number of immigrant visas which may be issued to quota 
immigrants under the same quota for the fiscal year has been issued, 
then during the next following fiscal year. 
(e) Every alien making application for admission as an immigrant 
shall present a valid unexpired passport, or other suitable travel docu-
ment, or document of identity and nationality, if such document is 
required under the regulations issued by the Attorney General. 
GENERAL CLASSES OF ALIENS INELIGIBLE TO RECEIVE VISAS AND 
EXCLUDED FROM ADMISSION 
SEC. 212. (a) Except as otherwise provided in this Act, the following 
classes of aliens shall be ineligible to receive visas and shall be excluded 
from admission into the United States: 
(1) Aliens who are feeble-minded; 
(2) Aliens who are insane; 
(3) Aliens who have had one or more attacks of insanity; 
(4) Aliens afflicted with psychopathic personality, epilepsy, or a 
mental defect; 
(5) Aliens who are narcotic drug addicts or chronic alcoholics; 
(6) Aliens who are afflicted with tuberculosis in an}' form, or with 
leprosy, or any dangerous contagious disease; 
(7) Aliens not comprehended within any of the foregoing classes 
who are certified by the examining surgeon as having a physical defect, 
disease, or disability, w^hen determined by the consular or immigration 
officer to be of such a nature that it may affect the ability of the alien 
to earn a living, unless the alien affirmatively establishes that he will 
not have to earn a living; 
(8) Aliens who are paupers, professional beggars, or vagrants; 
(9) Aliens who have been convicted of a crime involving moral 
turpitude (other than a purely political offense), or aliens who admit 
having committed such a crime, or aliens who admit committing acts 
which constitute the essential elements of such a crime; except that 
aliens who have committed only one such crime while under the age 
of eighteen years may be granted a visa and admitted if the crime was 
committed more than five years prior to the date of the application for 
a visa or other documentation, and more than five years prior to date 
of application for admission to the United States, unless the crime 
resulted in confinement in a prison or correctional institution, in which 
case such alien must have been released from such confinement more 
than five years prior to the date of the application for a visa or other 
documentation, and for admission, to the United States; 
(10) Aliens who have been convicted of two or more offenses (other 
than purely political offenses), regardless of whether the conviction 
was in a single trial or whether the offenses arose from a single scheme 
of misconduct and regardless of w^hether the offenses involved moral 
turpitude, for which the aggregate sentences to confinement actually 
imposed were five years or more; 
(11) Aliens w^ho are polygamists or who practice polygamy or 
advocate the practice of polygamy; 
(12) Aliens who are prostitutes or who have engaged in i:)rostitu-
tion, or aliens coming to the United States solely, principally, or inci-
dentally to engage in prostitution; aliens who directly or indirectly 
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procure or attempt to procure, or who have procured or attempted to 
procure or to import, prostitutes or persons for the purpose of prosti-
tution or for any other immoral purpose; and aliens who are or have 
been supported by, or receive or have received, in whole or in part, the 
proceeds of prostitution or aliens coming to the United States to engage 
in any other unlawful commercialized vice, whether or not related 
to prostitution; 
(18) Aliens coming to the United States to engage in any immoral 
sexual act; 
(14) Aliens seeking to enter the United States for the purpose of 
performing skilled or unskilled labor, if the Secretary of Labor has 
determined and certified to the Secretary of State and to the Attorney 
General that (A) sufficient workers in the United States who are able, 
willing, and qualified are available at the time (of application for a 
visa and for admission to the United States) and place (to w^hich 
the alien is destined) to perform such skilled or unskilled labor, or 
(B) the employment of such aliens will adversely affect the wages 
and working conditions of the workers in the United States similarly 
employed. 
The exclusion of aliens under this paragraph shall apply 
only to the following classes: (i) those aliens described in the non-
preference category of section 203 (a) (4), (ii) those aliens described 
in section 101 (a) (27) (C), (27) (D), or (27) (E) (other than the 
parents, spouses, or children of United States citizens or of aliens 
lawfully admitted to the United States for permanent residence), 
unless their services are determined by the Attorney General to be 
needed urgently in the United States because of the high education, 
technical training, specialized experience, or exceptional ability of 
/ 
such immigrants and to be substantially beneficial prospectively to 
the national economy, cultural interest or welfare of the United 
States; 
(15) Aliens w^ho, in the opinion of the consular officer at the time of 
application for a visa, or in the opinion of the Attorney General at the 
time of application for admission, are likely at any time to become 
public charges; 
(16) Aliens who have been excluded from admission and deported 
and who again seek admission within one year from the date of such 
deportation, unless prior to their reembarkation at a place outside the 
United States or their attempt to be admitted from foreign contiguous 
territory the Attorney General has consented to their reapplying for 
admission; 
(17) Aliens who have been arrested and deported, or w'ho have 
fallen into distress and have been removed pursuant to this or any 
prior act, or who have been removed as alien enemies, or w^ho have 
been removed at Government expense in lieu of deportation pursuant 
to section 242 (b), unless prior to their embarkation or reembarkation 
at a place outside the United States or their attempt to be admitted 
from foreign contiguous territory the Attorney General has consented 
to their applying or reapplying for admission; 
(18) Aliens who are stowaways; 
(19) Any alien who seeks to procure, or has sought to procure, or 
has procured a visa or other documentation, or seeks to enter the 
United States, by fraud, or by willfully misrepresenting a material 
fact; 
(20) Except as otherwise specifically provided in this Act, any 
immigrant who at the time of application for admission is not in pos-
session of a valid unexpired immigrant visa, reentry permit, border 
crossing identification card, or other valid entry document required by 
this Act, and a valid unexpired passport, or other suitable travel 
document, or document of identity and nationality, if such document 
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is required under the regulations issued by the Attorney General 
pursuant to section 211 (e) ; 
(21) Except as otherwise specifically provided in this Act, any quota 
immigrant at the time of application for admission whose visa has 
been issued without compliance with the provisions of section 203; 
(22) Aliens who are ineligible to citizenship, except aliens seeking 
to enter as nonimmigrants; or persons who have departed from or 
who have remained outside the United States to avoid or evade 
training or service in the armed forces in time of war or a period 
declared by the President to be a national emergency, except aliens 
who were at the time of such departure nonimmigrant aliens and who 
seek to reenter the United States as nonimmigrants; 
(23) Any alien who has been convicted of a violation of any law or 
regulation relating to the illicit traffic in narcotic drugs, or who has 
been convicted of a violation of any law" or regulation governing or 
controlling the taxing, manufacture, production, compounding, trans-
portation, sale, exchange, dispensing, giving away, importation, 
exportation, or the possession for the purpose of the manufacture, 
production, compounding, transportation, sale, exchange, dispensing, 
giving away, importation or exportation of opium, coca leaves, heroin, 
marihuana, or any salt derivative or preparation of opium or coca 
leaves, or isonipecaine or any addiction-forming or addiction-sustain-
ing opiate; or any alien who the consular officer or immigration officers 
know or have reason to believe is or has been an illicit trafficker in any 
of the aforementioned drugs; 
(24) Aliens (other than those aliens who are native-born citizens of 
countries enumerated in section 101 (a) (27) (C) and aliens described 
in section 101 (a) (27) (B)) who seek admission from foreign con-
tiguous territory or adjacent islands, having arrived there on a vessel 
or aircraft of a nonsignatory line, or if signatory, a noncomplying 
transportation line imder section 238 (a) and who have not resided 
for at least tw^o years subsequent to such arrival in such territory or 
adjacent islands; 
(25) Aliens (other than aliens who have been lawfully admitted for 
permanent residence and who are returning from a temporary visit 
abroad) over sixteen years of age, physically capable of reading, who 
cannot read and understand some language or dialect; 
(26) Any nonimmigrant w^ho is not in possession of (A) a passport 
valid for a minimum period of six months from the date of the expira-
tion of the initial period of his admission or contemplated initial 
period of stay authorizing him to return to the country from which 
he came or to proceed to and enter some other country during such 
period; and (B) at the time of application for admission a valid non-
immigrant visa or border crossing identification card; 
(27) Aliens who the consular officer or the Attorney General knows 
or has reason to believe seek to enter the United States solely, princi-
pally, or incidentally to engage in activities which would be prejudi-
cial to the public interest, or endanger the welfare, safety, or security 
of the United States; 
(28) Aliens who are, or at any time have been, members of any of 
the following classes: 
(A) Aliens who are anarchists; 
(B) Aliens who advocate or teach, or who are members of or 
affiliated with any organization that advocates or teaches, oppo-
sition to all organized government; 
(C) Aliens who are members of or affiliated with (i) the Com-
munist Party of the United States, (ii) any other totalitarian 
party of the United States, (iii) the Communist Political Associa-
tion, (iv) the Communist or any other totalitarian party of any 
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State of the United States, of any foreign state, or of any political 
or geographical subdivision of any foreign state, (v) any section, 
subsidiary, branch, affiliate, or subdivision of any such association 
or party, or (vi) the direct predecessors or successors of any such 
association or party, regardless of what name such group or 
organization may have used, may now bear, or may hereafter 
adopt: Provided^ That nothing in this paragraph, or in any other 
provision of this Act, shall be construed as declaring that the 
Communist Party does not advocate the overthrow of the Gov-
ernment of the United States by force, violence, or other uncon-
stitutional means; 
(D) Aliens not within any of the other provisions of this para-
graph who advocate the economic, international, and govern-
mental doctrines of world communism or the establishment in 
the United States of a totalitarian dictatorship, or who are mem-
bers of or affiliated with any organization that advocates the 
economic, international, and governmental doctrines of world 
communism or the establishment in the United States of a totali-
tarian dictatorship, either through its own utterances or through 
any written or printed publications issued or published by or with 
the permission or consent of or under the authority of such organ-
ization or paid for by the funds of, or funds furnished by, such 
organization; 
(E) Aliens not within any of the other provisions of this para-
graph, who are members of or affiliated with any organization 
during the time it is registered or required to be registered under 
section 7 of the Subversive Activities Control Act of 1950, unless 
^4 st^^ 993. 
such aliens establish that they did not have knowledge or reason 
to believe at the time they became members of or affiliated with 
such an organization (and did not thereafter and prior to the 
date upon which such organization was so registered or so required 
to be registered have such knowledge or reason to believe) that 
such organization was a Communist organization; 
(F) Aliens who advocate or teach or who are members of or 
affiliated with any organization that advocates or teaches (i) the 
overthrow by force, violence, or other unconstitutional means of 
the Government of the United States or of all forms of law; or 
(ii) the duty, necessity, or propriety of the unlawful assaulting 
or killing of any officer or officers (either of specific individuals 
or of officers generally) of the Government of the United States 
or of any other organized government, because of his or their 
official character; or (iii) the unlawful damage, injury, or destruc-
tion of property; or (iv) sabotage; 
(G) Aliens who write or publish, or cause to be written or pub-
lished, or who knowingly circulate, distribute, print, or display, 
or knowingly cause to be circulated, distributed, printed, pub-
lished, or displayed, or who knowingly have in their possession 
for the purpose of circulation, publication, distribution, or display, 
any written or printed matter, advocating or teaching opposition 
to all organized government, or advocating or teaching (i) the 
overthrow by force, violence, or other unconstitutional means of 
the Government of the United States or of all forms of law; or 
(ii) the duty, necessity, or propriety of the unlawful assaulting or 
killing of any officer or officers (either of specific individuals or 
of officers generally) of the Government of the United States or 
of any other organized government, because of his or their official 
character; or (iii) the unlawful damage, injury, or destruction of 
property; or (iv) sabotage; or (v) the economic, international, 
and governmental doctrines of world communism or the establish-
ment in the United States of a totalitarian dictatorship; 
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(H) Aliens who are members of or affiliated with any organiza-
tion that writes, circulates, distributes, prints, publishes, or dis-
plays, or causes to be written, circulated, distributed, printed, 
published, or displayed, or that has in its possession for the pur-
pose of circulation, distribution, publication, issue, or display, any 
written or printed matter of the character described in para-
graph (G); 
(I) Any alien who is within any of the classes described in sub-
paragraphs (B), (C), (D), (E), (F), (G), and (H) of this 
paragraph because of membership in or affiliation with a party 
or organization or a section, subsidiary, branch, affiliate, qr sub-
division thereof, may, if not otherwise ineligible, be issued a visa 
if such alien establishes to the satisfaction of the consular officer 
when applying for a visa and the consular ofiicer finds that (i) 
such membership or affiliation is or was involuntary, or is or was 
solely when under sixteen years of age, by operation of law, or 
for purposes of obtaining employment, food rations, or other 
essentials of living and where necessary for such purposes, or 
(ii) (a) since the termination of such membership or affiliation, 
such alien is and has been, for at least five years prior to the date 
of the application for a visa, actively opposed to the doctrine, 
program, principles, and ideology of such party or organization 
or the section, subsidiary, branch, or affiliate or subdivision 
thereof, and (b) the admission of such alien into the United 
States would be in the public interest. 
Any such alien to whom 
a visa has been issued under the provisions'of this subparagraph 
may, if not otherwise inadmissible, be admitted into the United 
States if he shall establish to the satisfaction of the Attorney 
General when applying for admission to the United States and 
the Attorney General finds that (i) such membership or affilia-
tion is or was involuntary, or is or was solely when under sixteen 
years of age, by operation of law, or for purposes of obtaining 
employment, food rations, or other essentials of living and when 
necessary for such purposes, or (ii) (a) since the termination of 
such membership or affiliation, such alien is and has been, for at 
least five years prior to the date of the application for admission 
actively opposed to the doctrine, program, principles, and ideology 
of such party or organization or the section, subsidiary, branch, 
or affiliate or subdivision thereof, and (b) the admission of such 
alien into the United States would be in the public interest. 
The 
Attorney General shall promptly make a detailed report to the 
Congress in the case of each alien who is or shall be admitted into 
the United States under (ii) of this subparagraph; 
(29) Aliens with respect to whom the consular officer or the Attor-
ney General knows or has reasonable ground to believe probably 
would, after entry, (A) engage in activities which would be pro-
hibited by the laws of the United States relating to espionage, sabo-
tage, public disorder, or in other activity subversive to the national 
security, (B) engage in any activity a purpose of which is the opposi-
tion to, or the control or overthrow of, the Government of the United 
States, by force, violence, or other unconstitutional means, or (C) 
join, affiliate with, or participate in the activities of any organization 
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which is registered or required to be registered under section 7 of the 
Subversive Activities Control Act of 1950; 
(30) Any alien accompanying another alien ordered to be excluded 
and deported and certified to be helpless from sickness or mental or 
])hysical disability or infancy pursuant to section 237 (e), whose pro-
tection or guardianship is required by the alien ordered excluded and 
deported; 
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(31) Any alien who at any time shall have, knowingly and for gain, 
encouraged, induced, assisted, abetted, or aided any other alien to enter 
or to try to enter the United States in violation of law, 
(b) The provisions of paragraph (25) of subsection (a) shall not be .^NonappUcabii-
applicable to any alien who (1) is the parent, grandparent, spouse, 
daughter, or son of an admissible alien, or any alien lawfully admitted 
for permanent residence, or any citizen of the United States, if accom-
panying such admissible alien, or coming to join such citizen or alien 
lawfully admitted, and if otherwise admissible, or (2) proves that he 
is seeking admission to the United States to avoid religious persecu-
tion in the country of his last permanent residence, whether such per-
secution be evidenced by overt acts or by law^s or governmental regula-
tions that discriminate against such alien or any group to which he 
belongs because of his religious faith. 
For the purpose of ascertain-
ing whether an alien can read under paragraph (25) of subsection (a), 
the consular officers and immigration officers shall be furnished with 
slips of uniform size, prepared under direction of the Attorney (jen-
eral, each containing not less than thirty nor more than forty words in 
ordinary use, printed in plainly legible type, in one of the various 
languages or dialects of immigrants. 
Each alien may designate the 
particular language or dialect in which he desires the examination to 
be made and shall be required to read and understand the words 
printed on the slip in such language or dialect. 
(c) Aliens lawfully admitted for permanent residence who tempo-
rarily proceeded abroad voluntarily and not under an order of depor-
tation, and who are returning to a lawful unrelinquished domicile of 
seven consecutive years, may be admitted in the discretion of the At-
torney General without regard to the provisions of paragraph (1) 
through (25) and paragraphs (30) and (31) of subsection (a). Noth-
ing contained in this subsection shall limit the authority of the At-
torney General to exercise the discretion vested in him under section 
211 (b). 
(d) (1) The provisions of paragraphs (11) and (25) of subsection 
(a) shall not be applicable to any alien wdio in good faith is seeking to 
enter the United States as a nonimmigrant. 
(2) The provisions of paragraph (28) of subsection (a) of this 
section shall not be applicable to any alien who is seeking to enter the 
United States temporarily as a nonimmigrant under paragraph (15) 
(A) (iii) or (15) (G) (v) of section 101 (a). 
(3) Except as provided in this subsection, an alien (A) who is 
applying for a nonimmigrant visa and is known or believed by the 
consular officer to be ineligible for such visa under one or more of the 
paragraphs enumerated in subsection (a) (other than paragraphs (27) 
and (29)), may, after approval by the Attorney General of a recom-
mendation by the Secretary of State or by the consular officer that 
the alien be admitted temporarily despite his inadmissibility, be 
granted such a visa and may be admitted into the United States tem-
porarily as a nonimmigrant in the discretion of the Attorney General, 
or (B) who is inadmissible under one or more of the paragraphs 
enumerated in subsection (a) (other than paragraphs (27) and (29)), 
but w^ho is in possession of appropriate documents or is granted a 
waiver thereof and is seeking admission, may be admitted into the 
United States temporarily as a nonimmigrant in the discretion of the 
Attorney General. 
(4) Either or both of the requirements of paragraph (26) of sub-
section (a) may be waived by the Attorney General and the Secretary 
of State acting jointly (A) on the basis of unforeseen emergency in 
individual cases, or (B) on the basis of reciprocity with respect to 
nationals of foreign contiguous territory or of adjacent islands and 
W a i v e r of re-
quirements. 
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Parole of aliens. 
R e p o r t to Con-
gress. 
S u s p e n s ion of 
entry by President. 
residents thereof having a common nationality with such nationals, or 
(C) in the case of aliens proceeding in immediate and continuous 
transit through the United States under contracts authorized in sec-
tion 238 (d). 
(5) The Attorney General may in his discretion parole into the 
United States temporarily under such conditions as he may prescribe 
for emergent reasons or for reasons deemed strictly in the public inter-
est any alien applying for admission to the United States, but such 
parole of such alien shall not be regarded as an admission of the alien 
and when the purposes of such parole shall, in the opinion of the 
Attorney General, have been served the alien shall forthwith return 
or be returned to the custody from which he was paroled and there-
after his case shall continue to be dealt with in the same manner as 
that of any other applicant for admission to the United States. 
(6) The Attorney General shall prescribe conditions, including 
exaction of such bonds as may be necessary, to control and regulate 
the admission and return of excludable aliens applying for temporary 
admission under this subsection. The Attorney General shall make a 
detailed report to the Congress in any case in which he exercises his 
authority under paragi*aph (3) of this subsection on behalf of any 
alien excludable under paragraphs (9), (10), and (28) of sub-
section (a). 
(7) The provisions of subsection (a) of this section, except para-
graphs (20), (21), and (26), shall be applicable to any alien who shall 
leave Hawaii, Alaska, Guam, Puerto Rico, or the Virgin Islands of 
the United States, and who seeks to enter the continental United States 
or any other place under the jurisdiction of the United States: Pro-
vided^ That persons who were admitted to Hawaii under the last sen-
tence of section 8 (a) (1) of the Act of March 24, 1934, as amended 
(48 Stat. 456), and aliens who were admitted to Hawaii as nationals 
of the United States shall not be excepted by this paragraph froin 
the application of paragraphs (20) and (21) of subsection (a) of 
this section, unless they belong to a class declared to be nonquota immi-
grants under the provisions of section 101 (a) (27) of this Act, other 
than subparagraph (C) thereof, or unless they were admitted to Hawaii 
w^ith an immigration visa. 
The Attorney General shall by regulations 
provide a method and procedure for the temporary admission to the 
United States of the aliens described in this proviso. Any alien 
described in this paragraph, who is excluded from admission to the 
United States, shall be immediately deported in the manner provided 
by section 237 (a) of this Act. 
(8) Upon a basis of reciprocity accredited officials of foreign govern-
ments, their immediate families, attendants, servants, and personal 
employees may be admitted in immediate and continuous transit 
through the United States without regard to the provisions of this sec-
tion except paragraphs (26), (27), and (29) of subsection (a) of this 
section. 
(e) Whenever the President finds that the entry of any aliens or of 
any class of aliens into the United States would be detrimental to the 
interests of the United States, he may by proclamation, and for such 
period as he shall deem necessary, suspend the entry of all aliens or 
any class of aliens as immigrants or nonimmigrants, or impose on the 
entry of aliens any restrictions he may deem to be appropriate. 
ADMISSION OF ALIENS ON GIVING BOND OR CASH DEPOSIT 
SEC. 213. Any alien excludable because he is likely to become a pub-
lic charge or because of physical disability other than tuberculosis 
in any form, leprosy, or a dangerous contagious disease may, if other-
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wise admissible, be admitted in the discretion of the Attorney General 
upon the giving of a suitable and proper bond or undertaking ap-
proved by the Attorney General, in such amount and containing such 
conditions as he may prescribe, to the United States and to all States, 
Territories, counties, towns, municipalities, and districts thereof hold-
ing the United States and all States, Territories, counties, towns, 
municipalities, and districts thereof harmless, against such alien 
becoming a public charge. In lieu of such bond such alien may deposit 
in cash with the Attorney General such amount as the Attorney 
General may require, which amount shall be deposited by him in the 
United States Postal Savings System, a receipt therefor to be given 
the person furnishing such sums showing the fact and object of its 
receipt and such other information as the Attorney General may deem 
advisable. All accruing interest on such deposit during the time it 
shall be held in the United States Postal Savings System shall be paid 
to the person furnishing such sum. In the event such alien becomes a 
public charge, the Attorney General shall dispose of such deposit in 
the same manner as if it had been collected under a bond as provided 
in this section. In the event of the permanent departure from the 
United States, the naturalization, or the death of such alien, such 
sum shall be returned to the person by whom furnished, or to his 
legal representatives. 
The admission of such alien shall be a con-
sideration for the giving of such bond, undertaking, or cash deposit. 
Suit may be brought thereon in the name and by the proper law 
officers of the United States for the use of the United States, or of 
any State, Territory, district, county, town, or municipality in which 
such alien becomes a public charge. 
ADMISSION o r NONIMMIGRANTS 
SEC. 214. (a) The admission to the United States of any alien as a 
nonimmigrant shall be for such time and under such conditions as 
the Attorney General may by regulations prescribe, including when he 
deems necessary the giving of a bond with sufficient surety in such sum 
and containing such conditions as the Attorney General shall pre-
scribe, to insure that at the expiration of such time or upon failure to 
maintain the status under which he was admitted, or to maintain any 
status subsequently acquired under section 248, such alien will depart 
from the United States. 
(b) Every alien shall be presumed to be an immigrant until he 
establishes to the satisfaction of the consular officer, at the time of 
application for a visa, and the immigration officers, at the time of 
application for admission, that he is entitled to a nonimmigrant status 
under section 101 (a) (15). An alien w^ho is an officer or employee of 
any foreign government or of any international organization entitled 
to enjoy privileges, exemptions, and immunities under the Interna-
tional Organizations Immunities Act, or an alien who is the attendant, 
servant, employee, or member of the immediate family of any such 
alien shall not be entitled to apply for or receive an immigrant visa, 
or to enter the United States as an immigrant unless he executes a 
written waiver in the same form and substance as is prescribed by 
section 247 (b). 
(c) The question of importing any alien as a nonimmigrant under 
section 101 (a) (15) (H) in any specific case or specific cases shall 
be determined by the Attorney General, after consultation with appro-
priate agencies of the Government, upon petition of the importing 
employer. Such petition shall be made and approved before the visa 
is granted. 
The petition shall be in such form and contain such 
information as the Attorney General shall prescribe. 
The approval 
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of such a petition shall not, of itself, be construed as establishing that 
the alien is a nonimmigrant. 
TRAVEL CONTROL OF ALIENS AND CITIZENS I N TIME OF WAR OR NATIONAL 
EMERGENCY 
SEC. 215. (a) When the United States is at war or during the 
existence of any national emergency proclaimed by the President, or, 
as to aliens, whenever there exists a state of war between or among two 
or more states, and the President shall find that the interests of the 
United States require that restrictions and prohibitions in addition 
to those provided otherwise than by this section be imposed upon 
the departure of persons from and their entry into the United States, 
and shall make public proclamation thereof, it shall, until otherwise 
ordered by the President or the Congress, be unlawful— 
(1) for any alien to depart from or enter or attempt to depart 
from or enter the United States except under such reasonable 
rules, regulations, and orders, and subject to such limitations and 
exceptions as the President may prescribe; 
(2) for any p)erson to transport or attempt to transport from 
or into the United States another person with knowledge or 
reasonable cause to believe that the departure or entry of such 
other person is forbidden by this section; 
(3) for any person knowingly to make any false statement in 
an application for permission to depart from or enter the United 
, States with intent to induce or secure the granting of such permis-
sion either for himself or for another; 
(4) for any person knowingly to furnish or attempt to furnish 
or assist in furnishing to another a permit or evidence of permis-
sion to depart or enter not issued and designed for such other 
person's use; 
(5) for any person knowingly to use or attempt to use any 
permit or evidence of permission to depart or enter not issued and 
designed for his use; 
(6) for any person to forge, counterfeit, mutilate, or alter, or 
cause or procure to be forged, counterfeited, mutilated, or altered, 
any permit or evidence of permission to depart from or enter the 
United States; 
(7) for any person knowingly to use or attempt to use or fur-
nish to another for use any false, forged, counterfeited, mutilated, 
or altered permit, or evidence of permission, or any permit or 
evidence of permission which, though originally valid, has become 
or been made void or invalid. 
(b) After such proclamation as is provided for in subsection (a) has 
been made and published and while such proclamation is in force, it 
shall, except as otherwise provided by the President, and subject to 
such limitations and exceptions as the President ma}^ authorize and 
prescribe, be unlawful for any citizen of the United States to depart 
from or enter, or attempt to depart from or enter, the United States 
unless he bears a valid passport. 
(c) Any person who shall willfully violate any of the provisions of 
this section, or of any order or proclamation of the President promul-
gated, or of any permit, rule, or regulation issued thereunder, shall, 
upon conviction, be fined not more than $5,000, or, if a natural person, 
imprisoned for not more than five years, or both; and the officer, direc-
tor, or agent of any corporation who knowingly participates in such 
violation shall be punished by like fine or imprisonment, or both; and 
any vehicle, vessel, or aircraft together with its appurtenances, equip-
ment, tackle, apparel, and furniture, concerned in any such violation, 
shall be forfeited to the United States. 
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(d) The term "United States" as used in this section includes the 
Canal Zone, and all territory and waters, continental or insular, sub-
ject to the jurisdiction of the United States. The term "person" as 
used in this section shall be deemed to mean any individual, partner-
ship, association, company, or other incorporated body of individuals, 
or corporation, or body politic. 
(e) Nothing in this section shall be construed to entitle an alien to 
whom a permit to enter the United States has been issued to enter the 
United States, if, upon arrival in the United States, he is found to be 
inadmissible under any of the provisions of this Act, or any other law, 
relating to the entry of aliens into the United States. 
(f) The revocation of any proclamation, rule, regulation, or order 
issued in pursuance of this section shall not prevent prosecution for 
any offense committed, or the imposition of any penalties or forfei-
tures, liability for which was incurred under this section prior to the 
revocation of such proclamation, rule, regulation, or order. 
(g) Passports, visas, reentry permits, and other documents required 
for entry under this Act may be considered as permits to enter for the 
purposes of this section. 
CHAPTER 3—ISSUANCE or ENTRY DOCUMENTS 
ISSUANCE OF VISAS 
SEC. 221. (a) Under the conditions hereinafter prescribed and sub-
ject to the limitations prescribed in this Act or regulations issued 
thereunder, a consular officer may issue (1) to an immigrant who has 
made proper application therefor, an immigrant visa which shall 
consist of one copy of the application provided for in section 222, 
visaed by such consular officer, and shall specify the quota, if any, to 
which the immigrant is charged, the immigrant's particular status 
under such quota, the particular nonquota category in which the 
immigrant is classified, if a nonquota immigrant, the date on which 
the validity of the visa shall expire, and such additional information 
as may be required; and (2) to a nonimmigrant who has made proper 
application therefor, a nonimmigrant visa, which shall specify the 
classification under section 101 (a) (15) of the nonimmigrant, the 
period during which the nonimmigrant visa shall be valid, and such 
additional information as may be required. 
(b) Each alien who applies for a visa shall be registered and finger-
printed in connection with his application, and shall furnish copies of 
his photograph signed by him for such use as may be by regulations 
required. 
The requirements of this subsection may be waived in the 
discretion of the Secretary of State in the case of any alien who is 
within that class of nonimmigrants enumerated in sections 101 (a) 
(15) (A), and 101 (a) (15) (G), or in the case of any alien who is 
granted a diplomatic visa on a diplomatic passport or on the equivalent 
thereof. 
(c) An immigrant visa shall be valid for such period, not exceeding 
four months, as shall be by regulations prescribed. 
A nonimmigrant 
visa shall be valid for such periods as shall be by regulations prescribed. 
In prescribing the period of validity of a nonimmigrant visa in the case 
of nationals of any foreign country who are eligible for such visas, 
the Secretary of State shall, insofar as practicable, accord to such 
nationals the same treatment upon a reciprocal basis as such foreign 
country accords to nationals of the United States who are within a 
similar class. An immigrant visa may be replaced under the original 
quota number during the quota year in w^hich the original visa was 
issued for a quota immigrant who establishes to the satisfaction of 
the consular officer that he was unable to use the original immigrant 
P e r 
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visa during the period of its validity because of reasons beyond his 
control and for which he was not responsible: Provided^ the consular 
officer is in possession of the duplicate signed copy of the original visa, 
the immigrant is found by the consular officer to be eligible for an 
immigrant visa and the immigrant pays again the statutory fees for 
an application and an immigrant visa. 
(d) Prior to the issuance of an immigrant visa to any alien, the 
consular officer shall require such alien to submit to a physical and 
mental examination in accordance with such regulations as may be 
prescribed. 
Prior to the issuance of a nonimmigrant visa to any 
alien, the consular officer may require such alien to submit to a physical 
or mental examination, or both, if in his opinion such examination is 
necessary to ascertain whether such alien is eligible to receive a visa. 
(e) Each immigrant shall surrender his immigrant visa to the 
immigration officer at the port of entry, who shall endorse on the visa 
the date and the port of arrival, the identity of the vessel or other 
means of transportation by which the immigrant arrived, and such 
other endorsements as may be by regulations required. 
(f) Each nonimmigrant shall present or surrender to the immigra-
tion officer at the port of entry such documents as may be by regulation 
required. In the case of an alien crewman not in jiossession of any 
individual documents other than a passport and until such time as it 
becomes practicable to issue individual documents, such alien crewman 
may be admitted, subject to the provisions of this title, if his name 
appears in the crew list of the vessel or aircraft on which he arrives and 
the crew list is visaed by a consular officer, but the consular officer shall 
have the right to exclude any alien crewman from the crew list visa. 
(g) No visa or other documentation shall be issued to an alien if 
(1) it appears to the consular officer, from statements in the applica-
tion, or in the papers submitted therewith, that such alien is ineligible 
to receive a visa or such other documentation under section 212, or any 
other provision of law, (2) the application fails to comply with the 
provisions of this Act, or the regulations issued thereuncler, or (3) 
the consular officer knows or has reason to believe that such alien is 
ineligible to receive a visa or such other documentation under section 
212, or any other provision of law: Provided, That a visa or other 
documentation may be issued to an alien who is within the purview of 
section 212 (a) (7), or section 212 (a) (15), if such alien is otherwise 
entitled to receive a visa or other documentation, upon receipt of 
notice by the consular officer from the Attorney General of the giving 
of a bond or undertaking providing indemnity as in the case of 
aliens admitted under section 213. 
(h) Nothing in this Act shall be construed to entitle any alien, to 
whom a visa or other documentation has been issued, to enter the United 
States, if, upon arrival at a port of entry in the United States, he is 
found to be inadmissible under this Act, or any other provision of law. 
The substance of this subsection shall appear upon every visa 
application. 
(i) After the issuance of a visa or other documentation to any alien, 
the consular officer or the Secretary of State may at any time, in his 
discretion, revoke such visa or other documentation. Notice of such 
revocation shall be communicated to the Attorney General, and such 
revocation shall invalidate the visa or other documentation from the 
date of issuance: Provided, That carriers or transportation companies, 
and masters, commanding officers, agents, owners, charterers, or con-
signees, shall not be penalized under section 273 (b) for action taken in 
reliance on such visas or other documentation, unless they received due 
iiotice of such revocation prior to the alien's embarkation. 
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APPLICATIONS FOR VISAS 
SEC. 222. (a) Every alien applying for an immigrant visa and for 
alien registration shall make application therefor in such form and 
manner and at such place as shall be by regulations prescribed. 
In the 
application the immigrant shall state his full and true name, and any 
other name which he has used or by which he has been known; age and 
sex; race and ethnic classification; the date and place of his birth; pres-
ent address and places of previous residence; whether married or single, 
and the names and places of residence of spouse and children, if any; 
calling or occupation; personal description (including height, com-
plexion, color of hair and eyes, and marks of identification) ; languages 
he can speak, read, or write; names and addresses of parents, and if 
neither parent living, then the name and address of his next of kin in 
the country from which he comes; port of entry into the United States; 
final destination, if any, beyond the port of entry; whether he has a 
ticket through to such final destination; whether going to join a rela-
tive or friend, and, if so, the name and complete address of such rela-
tive or friend; the purpose for which he is going to the United States; 
the length of time he intends to remain in the United States.; whether 
or not be intends to remain in the United States permanently; whether 
he was ever arrested, convicted or was ever in prison or almshouse; 
whether he has ever been the beneficiary of a pardon or an amnesty; 
whether he has ever been treated in an institution or hospital or other 
place for insanity or other mental disease; if he claims to be a pref-
erence quota or a nonquota immigrant, the facts on which he bases 
such claim; whether or not he is a member of any class of individuals 
excluded from admission into the United States, or whether he claims 
to be exempt from exclusion under the immigration laws; and such 
additional information necessary to the identification of the appli-
cant and the enforcement of the immigration and nationality laws 
as may be by regulations prescribed. 
, 
(b) Every alien applying for an immigrant visa shall present a 
valid unexpired passport or other suitable travel document, or docu-
ment of identity and nationality, if such document is required under 
the regulations issued by the Secretary of State. 
The immigrant 
shall furnish to the consular officer with his application two copies 
of a certification by the appropriate police authorities stating what 
their records show concerning the immigrant; two certified copies of 
any existing prison record, military record, and record of his birth; 
and two certified copies of all other records or documents concerning 
him or his case which may be required by the consular officer. 
One 
copy of each document so furnished shall be permanently attached to 
each copy of the application and become a part thereof. In the event 
that the immigrant establishes to the satisfaction of the consular officer 
that any document or record required by this subsection is unobtain-
able, the consular officer may permit the immigrant to submit in lieu of 
such document or record other satisfactory evidence of the fact to 
which such document or record would, if obtainable, pertain. 
(c) Every alien applying for a nonimmigrant visa and for alien 
registration shall make application therefor in such form and manner 
as shall be by regulations prescribed. 
In the application the alien 
shall state his full and true name, the date and place of birth, his 
nationality, his race and ethnic classification; the purpose and length 
of his intended stay in the United States; personal description 
(including height, complexion, color of hair and eyes, and marks of 
identification) ; his marital status; and such additional information 
necessary to the identification of the applicant and the enforcement 
of the immigration and nationality laws as may be by regulations 
prescribed. 
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(d) Every alien applying for a nonimmigrant visa and alien regis-
tration shall furnish to the consular officer, with his application, a 
certified copy of such documents pertaining to him as may be by 
legulations required, 
(e) Except as may be otherwise prescribed by regulations, each 
copy of an application required by this section shall be signed by the 
applicant in the presence of the consular officer, and verified by the 
oath of the applicant administered by the consular officer. One copy 
of the application for an immigrant visa, w^hen visaed by the consular 
officer, shall become the immigrant visa, and the other copy shall be 
disposed of as may be by regulations prescribed. The application for 
a nonimmigrant visa or other documentation as a nonimmigrant shall 
be disposed of as may be by regulations prescribed. The issuance of 
a nonimmigrant visa shall, except as may be otherwise by regulations 
prescribed, be evidenced by a stamp placed by the consular officer in 
the alien's passport. 
(f) The records of the Department of State and of diplomatic and 
consular offices of the United States pertaining to the issuance or 
refusal of visas or permits to enter the United States shall be con-
sidered confidential and shall be used only for the formulation, amend-
ment, administration, or enforcement of the immigration, nationality, 
and other laws of the United States, except that in the discretion of 
the Secretary of State certified copies of such records may be made 
available to a court which certifies that the information contained in 
such records is needed by the court in the interest of the ends of justice 
in a case pending before the court. 
REENTRY PERMITS 
SEC. 223. (a) (1) Any alien lawfully admitted for permanent resi-
dence, or (2) any alien lawfully admitted to the United States pur-
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suant to clause 6 of section 3 of the Immigration Act of 1924, between 
July 1, 1924, and July 5, 1932, both dates inclusive, who intends to 
depart temporarily from the United States may make application 
to the Attorney General for a permit to reenter the United States, 
stating the length of his intended absence or absences, and the reasons 
therefor. Such applications shall be made under oath, and shall be in 
such form, contain such information, and be accompanied by such 
photographs of the applicant as may be by regulations prescribed. 
(b) If the Attorney General finds (1) that the applicant under 
subsection (a) (1) has been lawfully admitted to the United States for 
permanent residence, or that the applicant under subsection (a) (2) 
has since admission maintained the status required of him at the time 
of his admission and such applicant desires to visit abroad and to 
return to the United States to resume the status existing at the time of 
his departure for such visit, (2) that the application is made in good 
faith, and (3) that the alien's proposed departure from the United 
States would not be contrary to the interests of the United States, the 
Attorney General may, in his discretion, issue the permit, which shall 
be valid for not more than one year from the date of issuance: Pro-
vided^ That the Attorney General may in his discretion extend the 
validity of the permit for a period or periods not exceeding one year 
in the aggregate. 
The permit shall be in such form as shall be by 
regulations prescribed for the complete identification of the alien. 
(c) During the period of validity, such permit may be used by the 
alien in making one or more applications for reentry into the United 
States. 
(d) Upon the return of the alien to the United States the permit 
shall be presented to the immigration officer at the port of entry, and 
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upon the expiration of its validity, the permit shall be surrendered 
to the Service. 
(e) A permit issued under this section in the possession of the person 
to whom issued, shall be accepted in lieu of any visa which otherwise 
would be required from such person under this Act. 
Otherwise a 
permit issued under this section shall have no effect under the immi-
gration laws except to show that the alien to whom it was issued is 
returning from a temporary visit abroad; but nothing in this section 
shall be construed as making such permit the exclusive means of 
establishing that the alien is so returning. 
NONQUOTA IMMIGRANT VISAS 
SEC. 224. A consular officer, may, subject to the limitations provided 
in sections 204, 205, and 221, issue an immigrant visa to a nonquota 
immigrant as such upon satisfactory proof, under regulations pre-
scribed under this Act, that the applicant is entitled to a nonquota 
immigrant status. 
CHAPTER 4—PROVISIONS RELATING TO ENTRY AND EXCLUSION 
LISTS OR ALIEN AND CITIZEN PASSENGERS ARRIVING OR DEPARTING ; RECORD 
OF RESIDENT ALIENS AND CITIZENS LEAVING PERMANENTLY FOR FOREIGN 
COUNTRY 
SEO. 231. (a) Upon the arrival of any person by water or by air at 
any port within the United States from any place outside the United 
States, it shall be the duty of the master or commanding officer, or 
authorized agent, owner, or consignee of the vessel or aircraft, having 
any such person on board to deliver to the immigration officers at the 
port of arrival typewritten or printed lists or manifests of the persons 
on board such vessel or aircraft. Such lists or manifests shall be pre-
l^ared at such time, be in such form and shall contain such information 
as the Attorney General shall prescribe by regulation as being neces-
sary for the identification of the persons transported and for the 
enforcement of the immigration laws. 
This subsection shall not 
require the master or commanding officer, or authorized agent, owner, 
or consignee of a vessel or aircraft to furnish a list or manifest relating 
(1) to an alien crewman or (2) to any other person arriving by air on a 
trip originating in foreign contiguous territory, except (with respect 
to such arrivals by air) as may be required by regulations issued pur-
suant to section 239. 
(b) It shall be the duty of the master or commanding officer or 
authorized agent of every vessel or aircraft taking passengers on board 
at any port of the United States, who are destined to any place out-
side the United States, to file with the immigration officers before de-
parture from such port a list of all such persons taken on board. Such 
list shall be in such form, contain such information, and be accom-
panied by such documents, as the Attorney General shall prescribe 
by regulation as necessary for the identification of the persons so 
transported and for the enforcement of the immigration laws. 
No 
master or commanding officer of any such vessel or aircraft shall be 
granted clearance papers for his vessel or aircraft until he or the 
authorized agent has deposited such list or lists and accompanying 
documents with the immigration officer at such port and made oath that 
they are full and complete as to the information required to be con-
tained therein, except that in the case of vessels or aircraft which the 
Attorney General determines are making regular trips to ports of the 
United States, the Attorney General may, when exj^edient, arrange 
for the delivery of lists of outgoing persons at a later date. This sub-
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section shall not require the master or commanding officer, or author-
ized agent, owner, or consignee of a vessel or aircraft to furnish a list 
or manifest relating (1) to an alien crewman or (2) to any other person 
departing by air on a trip originating in the United States who is 
destined to foreign contiguous territory, except (with respect to such 
departure by air) as may be required by regulations issued pursuant 
to section 239. 
(c) The Attorney General may authorize immigration officers to 
' 
record the following information regarding every resident person 
leaving the United States by way of the Canadian or Mexican borders 
for permanent residence in a foreign country: Names, age, and sex; 
whether married or single; callijig or occupation; whether able to read 
or write; nationality; country of birth; country of which citizen or 
subject; race; last permanent residence in the United States; intended 
future permanent residence; and time and port of last arrival in the 
United States; and if a United States citizen or national, the facts 
on which claim to that status is based. 
(d) If it shall appear to the satisfaction of the Attorney General 
that the master or commanding officer, owner, or consignee of any 
vessel or aircraft, or the agent of any transportation line, as the case 
may be, has refused or failed to deliver any list or manifest required 
by subsections (a) or (b), or that the list or manifest delivered is not 
accurate and full, such master or commanding officer, owner, or con-
signee, or agent, as the case may be, shall pay to the collector of cus-
toms at the port of arrival or departure the. sum of $10 for each person 
concerning w^hom such accurate and full list or manifest is not fur-
nished, or concerning whom the manifest or list is not prepared and 
sworn to as prescribed by this section or by regulations issued pursuant 
thereto. 
No vessel or aircraft shall be granted clearance pending 
determination of the question of the liability to the payment of such 
penalty, or while it remains unpaid, and no such penalty shall be 
remitted or refunded, except that clearance may be granted prior to 
the determination of such question upon the deposit with the collector 
of customs of a bond or undertaking approved by the Attorney 
General or a sum sufficient to cover such penalty. 
(e) The Attorney General is authorized to prescribe the circum-
stances and conditions under which the list or manifest requirements 
of subsections (a) and (b) may be waived. 
DETENTION OF ALIENS FOR OBSERVATION AND EXAMINATION 
SEC. 232. For the purpose of determining whether aliens (including 
alien crewmen) arriving at ports of the United States belong to any 
of the classes excluded by this Act, by reason of being afflicted with any 
of the diseases or mental or physical defects or disabilities set forth in 
section 212 (a), or whenever the Attorney General has received infor-
mation showing that any aliens are coming from a country or have 
embarked at a place w^here any of such diseases are prevalent or epi-
demic, such aliens shall be detained on board the vessel or at the air-
port of arrival of the aircraft bringing them, unless the Attorney 
General directs their detention in a United States immigration station 
or other place specified by him at the expense of such vessel or aircraft 
except as otherwise provided in this Act, as circumstances may require 
or justify, for a sufficient time to enable the immigration officers and 
medical officers to subject such aliens to observation and an examina-
tion sufficient to determine whether or not they belong to the excluded 
classes. 
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TEMPORARY REMOVAL FOR EXAMINATION UPON ARRIVAL 
SEC. 233. (a) Upon the arrival at a port of the United States of 
any vessel or aircraft bringing aliens (including alien crewmen) the 
immigration officers may order a temporary removal of such aliens 
for examination and inspection at a designated time and place, but 
such temporary removal shall not be considered a landing, nor shall 
it relieve vessels or aircraft, the transportation lines, or the masters, 
commanding officers, agents, owners, or consignees of the vessel or 
aircraft upon which such aliens are brought to any port of the United 
States from any of the obligations which, in case such aliens remain 
on board, would, under the provisions of this Act bind such vessels 
or aircraft, transportation lines, masters, commanding officers, agents, 
owners, or consignees. A temporary removal of aliens from such 
vessels or aircraft ordered pursuant to this subsection shall be made 
by an immigration officer at the expense of the vessels or aircraft or 
transportation lines, or the masters, commanding officers, agents, 
owners, or consignees of such vessels, aircraft or transportation lines, 
as provided in subsection (b) and such vessels, aircraft, transporta-
tion lines, masters, commanding officers, agents, owners, or consignees, 
shall, so long as such removal lasts, be relieved of responsibility for 
the safekeeping of such aliens: Provided^ That such vessels, aircraft, 
transportation lines, masters, commanding officers, agents, owners, or 
consignees may with the approval of the Attorney General assume 
responsibility for the safekeeping of such aliens during their removal 
to a designated place for examination and inspection, in which event, 
such removal need not be made by an immigration officer. 
(b) Whenever a temporary removal of aliens is made under this 
section, the vessels or aircraft or transportation lines which brought 
them, and the masters, commanding officers, owners, agents, and con-
signees of the vessel, aircraft, or transportation line upon which they 
arrived shall pay all expenses of such removal to a designated place 
for examination and inspection or other place of detention and all 
expenses arising during subsequent detention, pending a decision on 
the aliens' eligibility to enter the United States and until they are 
either allowed to land or returned to the care of the transportation 
line or to the vessel or aircraft which brought them. 
Such expenses 
shall include maintenance, medical treatment in hospital or elsewhere, 
burial in the event of death, and transfer to the vessel, aircraft, or 
transportation line in the event of deportation, except where sucli 
expenses arise under section 237 (d) or in such cases as the Attorney 
General may prescribe in the case of aliens paroled into the United 
States temporarily under the provisions of section 212 (d) (5). 
(c) Any detention expenses and expenses incident to detention 
incurred (but not including expenses of removal to the place of deten-
tion) pursuant to sections 232 and 233 shall not be assessed under this 
Act against the vessel or aircraft or transportation line or the master, 
commanding officer, owner, agent, or consignee of the vessel, aircraft, 
or transportation line in the case of (1) any alien who arrived in 
possession of a valid unexpired immigrant visa, or (2) any alien who 
was finally admitted to the United States pursuant to this Act after 
such detention, or (3) any alien other than an alien crewman, who 
arrived in possession of a valid unexpired noninnnigrant visa or other 
document authorizing such alien to apply for temporary admission to 
the United States or an unexpired reentry permit issued to him, and 
(A) application for admission was macle within one hundred and 
twenty days of the date of issuance of the visa or other document, or in 
the case of an alien in possession of a reentry permit, within one hun-
dred and twenty days of the date on which the alien was last examined 
and admitted by the Service, or (B) in the event application for admis-
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sion was made later than one hundred and twenty days of the date of 
issuance of the visa or other document or such examination and admis-
sion, if the vessel, aircraft, or transportation line or the master, com-
manding officer, owner, agent, or consignee of the vessel, aircraft, or 
transportation line establishes to the satisfaction of the Attorney 
General that the ground of exclusion could not have been ascertained 
by the exercise of due diligence prior to the alien's embarkation, or 
(4) any person claiming United States nationality or citizenship and 
in possession of an unexpired United States passport issued to him by 
competent authority, or (5) any person claiming United States nation-
ality or citizenship and in possession of a certificate of identity issued 
pursuant to section 360 (b) of this Act, or any other document of 
identity issued or verified by a consular officer which shows on its face 
that it is currently valid for travel to the United States and who was 
allowed to land in the United States after such detention. 
(d) Any refusal or failure to comply with the provisions of this 
section shall be punished in the manner specified in section 237 (b) 
of this Act. 
PHYSICAL AND MENTAL EXAMINATION 
SEC. 234, The physical and mental examination of arriving aliens 
(including alien crewmen) shall be made by medical officers of the 
United States Public Health Service, who shall conduct all medical 
examinations and shall certify, for the information of the immigra-
tion officers and the special inquiry officers, any physical and mental 
defect or disease observed by such medical officers m any such alien. 
If medical officers of the United States Public Health Service are not 
available, civil surgeons of not less than four years' professional ex-
perience may be employed for such service upon such terms as may be 
prescribed by the Attorney General. 
Aliens (including alien crew-
men) arriving at ports of the United States shall be examined by at 
least one such medical officer or civil surgeon under such administra-
tive regulations as the Attorney General may prescribe, and under 
medical regulations prepared by the Surgeon General of the United 
States Public Health Service. Medical officers of the United States 
Public Health Service who have had special training in the diagnosis 
of insanity and mental defects shall be detailed for duty or employed 
at such ports of entry as the Attorney General may designate, and 
such medical officers shall be provided with suitable facilities for the 
detention and examination of all arriving aliens who it is suspected 
may be excludable under paragraphs (1), (2), (3), (4), or (5) of sec-
tion 212 (a), and the services of interpreters shall be provided for such 
examination. 
Any alien certified under paragraphs (1), (2), (3), 
(4), or (5) of section 212 (a) may appeal to a board of medical officers 
of the United States Public Health Service, wiiich shall be convened 
by the Surgeon General of the United States Public Health Service, 
and any such alien may introduce before such board one expert medi-
/ 
cal witness at his own cost and expense. 
INSPECTION BY IMMIGRATION OFFICEKS 
SEC. 235. (a) The inspection, other than the physical and mental 
examination, of aliens (including alien crewmen) seeking admission 
or readmission to, or the privilege of passing through the United 
States shall be conducted by immigration officers, except as otherwise 
provided in regard to special inquiry officers. 
All aliens arriving at 
ports of the United States shall be examined by one or more immigra-
tion officers at the discretion of the Attorney General and under such 
regulations as he may prescribe. 
Immigration officers are hereby 
authorized and empowered to board and search any vessel, aircraft, 
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railway car, or other conveyance, or vehicle in which they believe aliens 
are being brought into the United States. 
The Attorney General and 
any immigration officer, including special inquiry officers, shall have 
power to administer oaths and to take and consider evidence of or from 
any person touching the privilege of any alien or person he believes or 
suspects to be an alien to enter, reenter, pass through, or reside in the 
United States or concerning any matter which is material and relevant 
to the enforcement of this Act and the administration of the Service, 
and, where such action may be necessary, to make a written record of 
such evidence. 
Any person coming into the United States may be 
required to state under oath the purpose or purposes for which he 
comes, the length of time he intends to remain in the United States, 
whether or not he intends to remain in the United States permanently 
and, if an alien, whether he intends to become a citizen thereof, and 
such other items of information as will aid the. immigration officer in 
determining whether he is a national of the United States or an alien 
and, if the latter, whether he belongs to any of the excluded classes 
enumerated in section 212. The Attorney General and any immigra-
tion officer, including special inquiry officers, shall have powder to 
require by subpena the attendance and testimony of witnesses before 
immigration officers and special inquiry officers and the production of 
books, papers, and documents relating to the privilege of any person 
to enter, reenter, reside in, or pass through the United States or con-
cerning any matter which is material and relevant to the enforcement 
of this Act and the administration of the Service, and to that end may 
invoke the aid of any court of the United States. 
Any United States 
district court within the jurisdiction of which investigations or 
inquiries are being conducted by an immigration officer or special 
inquiry officer may, in the event of neglect or refusal to respond to a 
subpena issued under this subsection or refusal to testify before an 
immigration officer or special inquiry officer, issue an order requiring 
such persons to appear before an immigration officer or special inquiry 
officer, produce books, papers, and documents if demanded, and testify, 
and any failure to obey such order of the court may be punished by the 
court as a contempt thereof. 
(b) Every alien (other than an alien crewman), and except as 
otherwise provided in subsection (c) of this section and in section 
273 (d), who may not appear to the examining immigration officer 
at the port of arrival to be clearly and beyond a doubt entitled to land 
shall be detained for further inquiry to be conducted by a special in-
quiry officer. 
The decision of the examining immigration officer, if 
favorable to the admission of any alien, shall be subject to challenge 
by any other immigration officer and such challenge shall operate to 
take the alien, whose privilege to land is so challenged, before a special 
inquiry officer for further inquiry. 
(c) Any alien (including an alien crewman) who may appear to the 
examining immigration officer or to the special inquiry officer during 
the examination before either of such officers to be excludable under 
paragraph (27), (28), or (29) of section 212 (a) shall be temporarily 
excluded, and no further inquiry by a special inquiry officer shall be 
conducted until after the case is reported to the Attorney General 
together with any such w^ritten statement and accompanying informa-
tion, if any, as the alien or his representative may desire to submit in 
connection therewith and such an inquiry or further inquiry is di-
rected by the Attorney General. If the Attorney General is satisfied 
that the alien is excludable under any of such paragraphs on the basis 
of information of a confidential nature, the disclosure of which the 
Attorney General, in the exercise of his discretion, and after con-
sultation with the appropriate security agencies of the Government, 
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concludes would be prejudicial to the public interest, safety, or secu-
rity, he may in his discretion order such alien to be excluded and 
deported without any inquiry or further inquiry by a special inquiry 
officer. Nothing in this subsection shall be regarded as requiring an 
inquiry before a special inquiry officer in the case of an alien crewman, 
EXCLUSIONS OF ALIENS 
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Proceedings. 
^y^ 
236, (a) A special inquiry officer shall conduct proceedings 
under this section, administer oaths, present and receive evidence, and 
interrogate, examine, and cross-examine the alien or witnesses. 
He 
shall have authority in any case to determine whether an arriving alien 
who has been detained for further inquiry under section 235 shall be 
allowed to enter or shall be excluded and deported. The determination 
of such special inquiry officer shall be based only on the evidence 
produced at the inquiry. No special inquiry officer shall conduct a 
proceeding in any case under this section in which he shall have 
participated in investigative functions or in which he shall have 
participated (except as provided in this subsection) in prosecuting 
functions. 
Proceedings before a special inquiry officer under this 
section shall be conducted in accordance with this section, the ap-
plicable provisions of sections 235 and 287 (b), and such regulations 
as the Attorney General shall prescribe, and shall be the sole and 
exclusive procedure for determining admissibility of a person to the 
United States under the provisions of this section. At such inquiry, 
which shall be kept separate and apart from the public, the alien may 
have one friend or relative present, under such conditions as may be 
prescribed by the Attorney General. A complete record of the pro-
ceedings and of all testimony and evidence produced at such inquiry, 
shall be kept. 
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(b) From a decision of a special inquiry officer excluding an alien, 
such alien may take a timely appeal to the Attorney General, and any 
such alien shall be advised of his right to take such appeal. 
No ap-
peal may be taken from a temporary exclusion under section 236 (c). 
From a decision of the special inquiry officer to admit an alien, the 
s 
immigration officer in charge at the port where the inquiry is held may 
take a timely appeal to the Attorney General. 
An appeal by the alien, 
or such officer in charge, shall operate to stay any final action with re-
spect to any alien whose case is so appealed until the final decision of 
the Attorney General is made. 
Except as provided in section 235 (c) 
such decision shall be rendered solely upon the evidence adduced before 
the special inquiry officer. 
(c) Except as provided in subsections (b) or (d), in every case 
where an alien is excluded from admission into the United States, 
under this Act or any other law or treaty now existing or hereafter 
made, the decision of a special inquiry officer shall be final unless re-
versed on appeal to the Attorney General, 
tafdeficu"' "'^"^ 
(^) ^^ ^ mcdical officer or civil surgeon or board of medical officers 
has certified under section 234 that an alien is afflicted with a disease 
specified in section 212 (a) (6), or with any mental disease, defect, or 
disability which would bring such alien within any of the classes ex-
cluded from admission to the United States under paragraphs (1), 
(2), (3), (4), or (5) of section 212 (a), the decision of the special in-
quiry officer shall be based solely upon such certification. 
No alien 
shall have a right to appeal from such an excluding decision of a spe-
cial inquiry officer. If an alien is excluded by a special inquiry officer 
because of the existence of a physical disease, defect, or disability, other 
than one specified in section 212 (a) (6), the alien may appeal from 
the excluding decision in accordance with subsection (b) of this sec-
tion, and the provisions of section 213 may be invoked. 
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IMMEDIATE DEPORTATION OF ALIENS EXCLUDED FROM ADMISSION OR 
ENTERING I N VIOLATION OF LAW 
SEC. 237. (a) Any alien (other than an alien crewman) arriving in 
the United States who is excluded under this Act, shall be immediately 
deported to the country whence he came, in accommodations of the same 
class in which he arrived, on the vessel or aircraft bringing him, unless 
the Attorney General, in an individual case, in his discretion, concludes 
that immediate deportation is not practicable or proper. The cost of 
the maintenance including detention expenses and expenses incident to 
detention of any such alien while he is being detained, as well as the 
transportation expense of his deportation from the United States, shall 
be borne by the owner or owners of the vessel or aircraft on which 
he arrived, except that the cost of maintenance (including detention 
expenses and expenses incident to detention while the alien is being 
detained prior to the time he is offered for deportation to the trans-
portation line which brought him to the United States) shall not be 
assessed against the owner or owners of such vessel or aircraft if (1) 
the alien was in possession of a valid, unexpired immigrant visa, or 
(2) if the alien (other than an alien crewman) was in possession of a 
valid, unexpired nonimmigrant visa or other document authorizing 
such alien to apply for temporary admission to the United States or 
an unexpired reentry permit issued to him, and (A) such application 
was made within one hundred and twenty days of the date of issuance 
of the visa or other document, or in the case of an alien in possession 
of a reentry permit, within one hundred and twenty days of the date 
on which the alien was last examined and admitted by the Service, 
or (B) in the event the application was made later than one hundred 
and twenty days of the date of issuance of the visa or other document 
or such examination and admission, if the owner or owners of such 
vessel or aircraft established to the satisfaction of the Attorney Gen-
eral that the ground of exclusion could not have been ascertained by 
the exercise of due diligence prior to the alien's embarkation, or (3) 
the person claimed United States nationality or citizenship and was in 
possession of an unexpired United States passport issued to him by 
competent authority. 
(b) It shall be unlawful for any master, commanding oiRcer, purser, 
person in charge, agent, owner, or consignee of any vessel or aircraft 
(1) to refuse to receive any alien (other than an alien crewman), 
ordered deported under this section back on board such vessel or air-
craft or another vessel or aircraft owned or operated by the same inter-
ests; (2) to fail to detain any alien (other than an alien crewman) on 
board any such vessel or at the airport of arrival of the aircraft when 
required by this Act or if so ordered by an immigration officer, or to 
fail or refuse to deliver him for medical or other inspection, or for 
further medical or other inspection, as and when so ordered by such 
officer; (3) to refuse or fail to remove him from the United States 
to the country whence he came; (4) to fail to pay the cost of his 
maintenance while being detained as required by this section or section 
233 of this title; (5) to take any fee, deposit, or consideration on a 
contingent basis to ke kept or returned in case the alien is landed or 
excluded; or (6) knowingly to bring to the United States any alien 
(other than an alien crewman) excluded or arrested and deported 
under any provision of law until such alien may be lawfully entitled 
to reapply for admission to the United States. If it shall appear to 
the satisfaction of the Attorney General that any such master, com-
manding officer, purser, person in charge, agent, owner, or consignee 
of any vessel or aircraft has violated any of the provisions of this 
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section or of section 233 of this title, such master, commanding officer, 
purser, person in charge, agent, owner, or consignee shall pay to the 
collector of customs of the district in which port of arrival is situated 
or in which any vessel or aircraft of the line may be found, the sum 
of $300 for each violation. No such vessel or aircraft shall have clear-
ance from any port of the United States while any such fine is unpaid 
or while the question of liability to pay any such fine is being deter-
mined, nor shall any such fine be remitted or refunded, except that 
clearance may be granted prior to the determination of such question 
upon the deposit with the collector of customs of a bond or undertaking 
approved by the Attorney General or a sum sufficient to cover such 
fine. 
(c) If the vessel or aircraft, by which any alien who has been ordered 
deported under this section arrived, has left the United States and it 
is impracticable to deport the alien within a reasonable time by another 
vessel or aircraft owned by the same person, the cost of deportation 
may be paid from the appropriation for the enforcement of this Act 
and recovered by civil suit from any owner, agent, or consignee of the 
vessel or aircraft. 
(d) The Attorney General, under such conditions as are by regu-
lations prescribed, may stay the deportation of any alien deportable 
under this section, if in his judgment the testimony of such alien is 
necessary on behalf of the United States in the prosecution of 
offenders against any provision of this Act or other laws of the United 
States. 
The cost of maintenance of any person so detained resulting 
from a stay of deportation under this subsection and a witness fee 
in the sum of $1 per day for each day such person is so detained may 
be paid from the appropriation for the enforcement of this title. 
Such alien may be released under bond in the penalty of not less than 
$500 with security approved by the Attorney General on condition 
that such alien shall be produced when required as a witness and for 
deportation, and on such other conditions as the Attorney General 
may prescribe. 
(e) Upon the certificate of an examining medical officer to the effect 
that an alien ordered to be excluded and deported under this section 
is helpless from sickness or mental and physical disability, or infancy, 
if such alien is accompanied by another alien whose protection or 
guardianship is required by the alien ordered excluded and deported, 
such accompanying alien may also be excluded and deported, and the 
master, commanding officer, agent, owner, or consignee of the vessel 
or aircraft in which such alien and accompanying alien arrived in the 
United States shall be required to return the accompanying alien in 
the same manner as other aliens denied admission and ordered 
deported under this section. 
ENTRY THROUGH OR FROM FOREIGN CONTIGUOUS TERRITORY AND ADJACENT 
ISLANDS ; LANDING STATIONS 
SEC. 238. (a) The Attorney General shall have power to enter into 
contracts with transportation lines for the entry and inspection of 
aliens coming to the United States through foreign contiguous terri-
tory or through adjacent islands. In prescribing rules and regula-
tions and making contracts for the entry and inspection of aliens 
applying for admission through foreign contiguous territory or 
through adjacent islands, due care shall be exercised to avoid any 
discriminatory action in favor of transportation companies transport-
ing to such territory or islands aliens destined to the United States, 
and all such transportation companies shall be required, as a condi-
tion precedent to the inspection or examination under such rules and 
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contracts at the ports of such contiguous territory or such adjacent 
islands of aliens brought thereto by them, to enter into a contract 
which will require them to submit to and comply with all the require-
ments of this Act which would apply were they bringing such aliens 
directly to ports of the United States. 
(b) The Attorney General shall have power to enter into contracts 
with transportation lines for the entry and inspection of aliens coming 
to the United States from foreign contiguous territory or from adja-
cent islands. No such transportation line shall be allowed to land any 
such alien in the United States until and unless it has entered into any 
such contracts which may be required by the Attorney General. 
(c) Every transportation line engaged in carrying alien passengers 
for hire to the United States from foreign contiguous territory or from 
adjacent islands shall provide and maintain at its expense suitable 
landing stations, approved by the Attorney General, conveniently 
located at the point or points of entry. No such transportation line 
shall be allowed to land any alien passengers in the United States until 
such landing stations are provided, and unless such stations are there-
after maintained to the satisfaction of the Attorney General. 
(d) The Attorney General shall have power to enter into contracts 
including bonding agreements with transportation lines to guarantee 
the passage through the United States in immediate and continuous 
transit of aliens destined to foreign countries. Notwithstanding any 
other provision of this Act, such aliens may not have their classifica-
tion changed under section 248. 
(e) As used in this section the terms "transportation line" and 
"transportation company" include, but are not limited to, the owner, 
charterer, consignee, or authorized agent operating any vessel or air-
craft bringing aliens to the United States, to foreign contiguous terri-
tory, or to adjacent islands. 
DESIGNATION OF PORTS OF ENTRY FOR ALIENS ARRIVING BY CIVIL AIRCRAFT 
SEC. 239. The Attorney General is authorized (1) by regulation to 
designate as ports of entry for aliens arriving by aircraft any of the 
ports of entry for civil aircraft designated as such in accordance with 
law; (2) by regulation to provide such reasonable requirements for 
aircraft in civil air navigation with respect to giving notice of inten-
tion to land in advance of landing, or notice of landing, as shall be 
deemed necessary for purposes of administration and enforcement of 
this Act; and (3) by regulation to provide for the application to civil 
air navigation of the provisions of this Act where not expressly so 
provided in this Act to such extent and upon such conditions as he 
deems necessary. Any person who violates any regulation made under 
this section shall be subject to a civil penalty of $500 which may be 
remitted or mitigated by the Attorney General in accordance with such 
proceedings as the Attorney General shall by regulation prescribe. In 
case the violation is by the owner or person in command of the aircraft, 
the penalty shall be a lien upon the aircraft, and such aircraft may be 
libeled therefor in the appropriate United States court. The determi-
nation by the Attorney General and remission or mitigation of the civil 
penalty shall be final. In case the violation is by the owner or person 
in command of the aircraft, the penalty shall be a lien upon the air-
craft and may be collected by proceedings in rem which shall conform 
as nearly as may be to civil suits in admiralty. The Supreme Court of 
the United States, and under its direction other courts of the United 
States, are authorized to prescribe rules regulating such proceedings 
against aircraft in any particular not otherwise provided by law. Any 
aircraft made subject to a lien by this section may be summarily seized 
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by, and placed in the custody of such persons as the Attorney General 
may by regulation prescribe. The aircraft may be released from such 
custody upon deposit of such amount not exceeding $500 as the 
Attorney General may prescribe, or of a bond in such sum and with 
such sureties as the Attorney General may prescribe, conditioned upon 
the payment of the penalty which may be finally determined by the 
"
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Attorney General. 
BECORDS OF ADMISSION 
SEC. 240. (a) The Attorney General shall cause to be filed, as a record 
of admission of each immigrant, the immigrant visa required by sec-
tion 221 (e) to be surrendered at the port of entry by the arriving 
alien to an immigration officer. 
(b) The Attorney General shall cause to be filed such record of the 
entry into the United States of each immigrant admitted under section 
211 (b) and of each nonimmigrant as the Attorney General deems 
necessary for the enforcement of the immigration laws. 
CHAPTER 5—^DEPORTATION ; ADJUSTMENT OF STATUS 
' 
GENERAL CLASSES or DEPORTABLE ALIENS 
' 
SEC. 241. (a) Any alien in the United States (including an alien 
crewman) shall, upon the order of the Attorney General, be deported 
who— 
(1) at the time of entry was within one or more of the classes 
of aliens excludable by the law existing at the time of such entry; 
(2) entered the United States without inspection or at any time 
or place other than as designated by the Attorney General or is in 
the United States in violation of this Act or in violation of any 
other law of the United States; 
(3) hereafter, within five years after entry, becomes institu-
tionalized at public expense because of mental disease, defect, or 
deficiency, unless the alien can show that such disease, defect, or 
deficiency did not exist prior to his admission to the United 
States; 
(4) is convicted of a crime involving moral turpitude committed 
within five years after entry and either sentenced to confinement 
or confined therefor in a prison or corrective institution, for a 
year or more, or who at any time after entry is convicted of two 
crimes involving moral turpitude, not arising out of a single 
scheme of criminal misconduct, regardless of whether confined 
therefor and regardless of whether the convictions were in a single 
trial; 
(5) has failed to comply with the provisions of section 265 
unless he establishes to the satisfaction of the Attorney General 
that such failure was reasonably excusable or was not willful, or 
has been convicted under section 266 (c) of this title, or under 
l^xMc^sy.^' 
section 36 (c) of the Alien Registration Act, 1940, or has been 
convicted of violating or conspiracy to violate any provision of 
the Act entitled "An Act to require the registration of certain 
persons employed by agencies to disseminate propaganda in the 
22 use 6n-62i. 
United States, and for other purposes", approved June 8, 1938, 
Post, p. 275. ' 
as amended, or has been convicted under section 1546 of title 18 
of the United States Code; 
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(6) is or at any time has been, after entry, a member of any of 
tlie following classes of aliens: 
(A) Aliens who are anarchists; 
(B) Aliens who advocate or teach, or who are members of 
or affiliated with any organization that advocates or teaches, 
opposition to all organized government; 
(C) Aliens who are members of or affiliated wdth (i) the 
Communist Party of the United States; (ii) any other totali-
tarian party of the United States; (iii) the Commmiist 
Political Association; (iv) the Commmiist or any other 
totalitarian party of any State of the United States, of any 
foreign state, or of any political or geographical subdivision 
of any foreign state; (v) any section, subsidiary, branch, 
affiliate, or subdivision of any such association or party; or 
i :, 
(vi) the direct predecessors or successors of any such associ-
ation or party, regardless of what name such group or organi-
V i „ 
zation may have used, may now bear, or may hereafter adopt: 
Provided^ That nothing in this paragraph, or in any other 
provision of this Act, shall be construed as declaring that the 
Communist Party does not advocate the overthrow of the 
Government of the United States by force, violence, or other 
; , ; 
unconstitutional means; 
(D) Aliens not within any of the other provisions of this 
paragraph who advocate the economic, international, and 
governmental doctrines of world communism or the estab-
lishment in the United States of a totalitarian dictatorship, 
or who are members of or affiliated with any organization that 
advocates the economic, international, and governmental doc-
trines of world communism or the establishment in the United 
States of a totalitarian dictatorship, either through its own 
utterances or through any written or printed publications 
issued or published by or with the permission or consent of or 
under the authority of such organization or paid for by the 
funds of, or funds furnished by, such organization; 
,f ; : ; 
(E) Aliens not within any of the other provisions of this 
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paragraph, who are members of or affiliated with any organ-
1 
ization during the time it is registered or required to be regis-
tered under section 7 of the Subversive Activities Control Act 
of 1950, unless such aliens establish that they did not have 
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knowledge or reason to believe at the time they became mem-
bers of or affiliated w^ith such an organization (and did not 
thereafter and prior to the date upon which such organization 
was so registered or so required to be registered have such 
knowledge or reason to believe) that such organization was a 
Communist organization; 
(F) Aliens who advocate or teach or who are members of 
or affiliated with any organization that advocates or teaches 
(i) the overthrow by force, violence, or other unconstitu-
tional means of the Government of the United States or of all 
forms of law; or (ii) the duty, necessity, or propriety of the 
unlawful assaulting or killing of any officer or officers (either 
of specific individuals or of officers generally) of the Govern-
ment of the United States or of any other organized govern-
ment, because of his or their official character; or (iii) the 
unlawful damage, injury, or destruction of property; or (iv) 
sabotage; 
(G) Aliens who write or publish, or cause to be written or 
published, or who knowingly circulate, distribute, print, or 
,,j^ 
display, or knowingly cause to be circulated, distributed. 
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• 
printed, published, or displayed, or who knowingly have in 
their possession for the purpose of circulation, publication, 
distribution, or display, any written or printed matter, ad-
vocating or teaching opposition to all organized government, 
or advocating or teaching (i) the overthrow by force, vio-
lence, or other unconstitutional means of the Government of 
the United States or of all forms of law; or (ii) the duty, 
necessity, or propriety of the unlawful assaulting or killing 
of any officer or officers (either of specific individuals or of 
officers generally) of the Government of the United States 
or of any other organized government, because of his or their 
official character; or (iii) the unlawful damage, injury, or 
destruction of property; or (iv) sabotage; or (v) the eco-
nomic, international, and governmental doctrines of world 
communism or the establishment in the United States of a 
totalitarian dictatorship; 
(H) Aliens Avho are members of or affiliated with any 
organization that writes, circulates, distributes, prints, pub-
lishes, or displays, or causes to be written, circulated, distrib-
uted, printed, published, or displayed, or that has in its 
possession for the purpose of circulation, distribution, pub-
lication, issue, or display, any written or printed matter of 
the character described in paragraph (G) ; 
(7) is engaged, or at any time after entry has engaged, or at 
any time after entry has had a purpose to engage, in any of the 
activities described in paragraph (27) or (29) of section 212 (a), 
unless the Attorney General is satisfied, in the case of any alien 
within category (C) of paragraph (29) of such section, that 
such alien did not have knowledge or reason to believe at the 
time such alien became a member of, affiliated with, or partici-
pated in the activities of the organization (and did not thereafter 
and prior to the date upon which such organization was registered 
or required to be registered under section 7 of the Subversive 
fn f^in ?oi' 
Activities Control Act of 1950 have such knowledge or reason 
to believe) that such organization was a Communist organiza-
tion ; 
(8) in the opinion of the Attorney General, has within five 
years after entry become a public charge from causes not affirma-
• 
tively shown to have arisen after entry; 
(9) was admitted as a nonimmigrant and failed to maintain the 
nonimmigrant status in which he was admitted or to which it 
was changed pursuant to section 248, or to comply with the con-
ditions of any such status; 
(10) entered the United States from foreign contiguous ter-
ritory or adjacent islands, having arrived there on a vessel or 
aircraft of a nonsignatory transportation company under section 
238 (a) and was without the required period of stay in such 
foreign contiguous territory or adjacent islands following such 
arrival (other than an alien who is a native-born citizen of any 
of the countries enumerated in section 101 (a) (27) (C) and an 
alien described in section 101 (a) (27) ( B ) ) ; 
(11) is, or hereafter at any time after entry has been, a narcotic 
drug addict, or w^ho at any time has been convicted of a violation 
of any law or regulation relating to the illicit traffic in narcotic 
drugs, or who has been convicted of a violation of any law or 
regulation governing or controlling the taxing, manufacture, 
production, compounding, transportation, sale, exchange, dispens-
ing, giving away, importation, exportation, or the possession for 
the purpose of the manufacture, production, compounding, trans-
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portation, sale, exchange, dispensing, giving away, importation 
or exportation of opium, coca leaves, heroin, marihuana, any salt 
derivative or preparation of opium or coca leaves or isonipecaine 
or any addiction-forming or addiction sustaining opiate; 
(12) by reason of any conduct, behavior or activity at any time 
after entry became a member of any of the classes specified in 
paragraph (12) of section 212 (a) ; or is or at any time after entry 
has been the manager, or is or at any time after entry has been 
connected with the management, of a house of prostitution or any 
other immoral place; 
(13) prior to, or at the time of any entry, or at any time within 
five years after any entry, shall have, knowingly and for gain, 
encouraged, induced, assisted, abetted, or aided any other alien 
to enter or to t r j to enter the United States in violation of law; 
(14) at any time after entry, shall have been convicted of pos-
sessing or carrying in violation of any law any weapon which 
shoots or is designed to shoot automatically or semiautomatically 
more than one shot without manual reloading, by a single func-
tion of the trigger, or a weapon commonly called a sawed-off 
shotgun; 
(15) at any time within five years after entry, shall have been 
convicted of violating the provisions of title I of the Alien Regis-
tration Act, 1940; 
(16) at any time after entry, shall have been convicted more 
than once of violating the provisions of title I of the Alien Regis-
tration Act, 1940; or 
(17) the Attorney General finds to be an undesirable resident 
of the United States by reason of any of the following, to wit: 
has been or may hereafter be convicted of any violation or con-
spiracy to violate any of the following Acts or parts of Acts or 
any amendment thereto, the judgment on such conviction having 
become final, namely: an Act entitled "An Act to punish acts of 
interference with the foreign relations, the neutrality, and the 
foreign commerce of the United States, to punish espionage, and 
better to enforce the criminal laws of the United States, and for 
other purposes'', approved June 15,1917, or the amendment there-
of approved May 16, 1918; sections 791, 792, 793, 794, 2388, and 
3241, title 18, United States Code; an Act entitled "An Act to pro-
hibit the manufacture, distribution, storage, use, and possession 
in time of war of explosives, providing regulations for the safe 
manufacture, distribution, storage, use, and possession of the 
same, and for other purposes", approved October 6, 1917; an Act 
entitled "An Act to prevent in time of war departure from and 
entry into the United States contrary to the public safety", ap-
proved May 22,1918; section 215 of this Act; an Act entitled "An 
Act to punish the willful injury or destruction of war material 
or of war premises or utilities used in connection with war mate-
rial, and for other purposes", approved April 20, 1918; sections 
2151,2153,2154, 2155, and 2156 of title 18, United States Code; an 
Act entitled "An Act to authorize the President to increase tem-
porarily the Military establishment of the United States", ap-
proved May 18, 1917, or any amendment thereof or supplement 
thereto; the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940; the Selec-
tive Service Act of 1948; the Universal Military Training and 
Service Act; an Act entitled "An Act to punish persons who make 
threats against the President of the United States", approved 
February 14, 1917; section 871 of title 18, United States Code; 
an Act entitled "An Act to define, regulate, and punish trading 
with the enemy, and for other purposes", approved October 6, 
54 Stat. 670. 
18 u s e 
2 3 8 5 , 
2387. 
Undesirable res-
ident. 
40 Stat. 217. 
40 Stat. 553. 
40 Stat. 385. 
50 u s e 121 note. 
40 Stat. 559. 
22 u s e 223-226b, 
40 Stat. 533. 
50 u s e 101-106. 
40 Stat. 76. 
54 Stat. 885-
50 USCapp. 318. 
62 Stat. 604. 
65 Stat. 75. 
50 USCapp. 451. 
39 Stat. 919. 
18 u s e 871. 
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40 Stat. 411. 
50 u s e app. 1. 
26 Stat. 209. 
15 u s e 1-7. 
39 Stat. 878. 
8 u s e 138. 
N o n applicabil • 
ity. 
Fraudulent entry. 
Applicability. 
1917, or any amendmeHt thereof; the Trading With the Enemy 
Act; section 6 of the Penal Code of the United States; section 
2384 of title 18, United States Code; has been convicted of any 
offense against section 13 of the Penal Code of the United States 
committed during the period of August 1, 1914, to April 6, 1917, 
or of a conspiracy occurring within said period to commit an of-
fense under said section 13 or of any offense committed during 
said period against the Act entitled "An Act to protect trade 
and commerce against unlawful restraints and monopolies", ap-
proved July 2, 1890, in aid of a belligerent in the European war; 
section 960 of title 18, United States Code; or 
(18) has been convicted under section 278 of this Act or under 
section 4 of the Immigration Act of February 5, 1917. 
(b) The provisions of subsection (a) (4) respecting the deportation 
of an alien convicted of a crime or crimes shall not apply (1) in the 
case of any alien who has subsequent to such conviction been granted 
a full and unconditional pardon by the President of the United States 
or by the Governor of any of the several States, or (2) if the court 
sentencing such alien for such crime shall make, at the time of first 
imposing judgment or passing sentence, or within thirty days there-
after, a recommendation to the Attorney General that such alien not 
be deported, due notice having been given prior to making such rec-
ommendation to representatives of the interested State, the Service, 
and prosecution authorities, who shall be granted an opportunity to 
make representations in the matter. 
(c) An alien shall be deported as having procured a visa or other 
documentation by fraud within the meaning of paragraph (19) of 
section 212 (a), and to be in the United States in violation of this 
Act within the meaning of subsection (a) (2) of this section, if (1) 
hereafter he or she obtains any entry into the United States with an 
immigrant visa or other documentation procured on the basis of a 
marriage entered into less than two years prior to such entry of the 
alien and which, within tw^o years subsequent to any entry of the 
alien into the United States, shall be judicially annulled or terminated, 
unless such alien shall establish to the satisfaction of the Attorney 
General that such marriage was not contracted for the purpose of 
evading any provisions of the immigration laws; or (2) it appears 
to the satisfaction of the Attorney General that he or she has failed 
or refused to fulfill his or her marital agreement which in the opinion 
of the Attorney General was hereafter made for the purpose of pro-
curing his or her entry as an immigrant. 
(d) Except as otherwise specifically provided in this section, the 
provisions of this section shall be applicable to all aliens belonging 
to any of the classes enumerated in subsection (a), notwithstanding 
(1) that any such alien entered the United States prior to the date 
of enactment of this Act, or (2) that the facts, by reason of which 
{my such alien belongs to any of the classes enumerated in subsection 
(a), occurred prior to the date of enactment of this Act. 
(e) An alien, admitted as a nonimmigrant under the provisions of 
either section 101 (a) (15) (A) (i) or 101 (a) (15) (G) (i), and 
who fails to maintain a status under either of those provisions, shall 
not be required to depart from the United States without the approval 
of the Secretary of State, unless such alien is subject to deportation 
under subsection (a) (6) or (7) of this section. 
APPREHENSION AND DEPORTATION OF ALIENS 
SEC. 242. (a) Pending a determination of deportability in the 
case of any alien as provided in subsection (b) of this section, such 
alien may, upon warrant of the Attorney General, be arrested and 
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209 
taken into custody. Any such alien taken into custody may, in the 
discretion of the Attorney General and pending such final determina-
tion of deportability, (1) be continued in custody; or (2) be released 
under bond in the amount of not less than $500 with security approved 
by the Attorney General, containing such conditions as the Attorney 
General may prescribe; or (3) be released on conditional parole. But 
such bond or parole, whether heretofore or hereafter authorized, may 
be revoked at any time by the Attorney General, in his discretion, and 
the alien may be returned to custody under the warrant which initiated 
the proceedings against him and detained until final determination 
of his deportability. Any court of competent jurisdiction shall have cour"**""'^*^ °^ 
authority to review or revise any determination of the Attorney Gen-
eral concerning detention, release on bond, or parole pending final 
decision of deportability upon a conclusive showing in habeas corpus 
proceedings that the Attorney General is not proceeding with such 
reasonable dispatch as may be warranted by the particular facts and 
circumstances in the case of any alien to determine deportability. 
(b) A special inquiry officer shall conduct proceedings under this 
Proceedings, 
section to determine the deportability of any alien, and shall ad-
minister oaths, present and receive evidence, interrogate, examine, and 
cross-examine the alien or witnesses, and, as authorized by the Attor-
ney General, shall make determinations, including orders of deporta-
tion. Determination of deportability in any case shall be made only 
upon a record made in a proceeding before a special inquiry officer, at 
which the alien shall have reasonable opportunity to be present, unless 
by reason of the alien's mental incompetency it is impracticable for 
him to be present, in which case the Attorney General shall prescribe 
necessary and proper safeguards for the rights and privileges of such 
alien. 
If any alien has been given a reasonable opportunity to be 
present at a proceeding under this section, and without reasonable 
cause fails or refuses to attend or remain in attendance at such pro-
ceeding, the special inquiry officer may proceed to a determination in 
like manner as if the alien were present. In any case or class of cases 
in which the Attorney General believes that such procedure would be 
of aid in making a determination, he may require specifically or by 
regulation that an additional immigration officer shall be assigned to 
present the evidence on behalf of the United States and in such case 
such additional immigration officer shall have authority to present 
evidence, and to interrogate, examine and cross-examine the alien 
or other w^itnesses in the proceedings. 
Nothing in the preceding sen-
tence shall be construed to diminish the authority conferred upon the 
special inquiry officer conducting such proceedings. 
No special in-
quiry officer shall conduct a proceeding in any case under this section 
in which he shall have participated in investigative functions or in 
which he shall have participated (except as provided in this sub-
section) in prosecuting functions. 
Proceedings before a special in-
quiry officer acting under the provisions of this section shall be in 
accordance with such regulations, not inconsistent with this Act, as the 
Attorney General shall prescribe. 
Such regulations shall include 
requirements that— 
» :; 
(1) the alien shall be given notice, reasonable under all the cir-
cumstances, of the nature of the charges against him and of the 
time and place at which the proceedings will be held; 
(2) the alien shall have the privilege of being represented (at 
no expense to the Government) by such counsel, authorized to 
practice in such proceedings, as he shall choose; 
(3) the alien shall have a reasonable opportunity to examine 
the evidence against him, to present evidence in his own behalf, 
and to cross-examine witnesses presented by the Government; 
and 
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Expenses 
moval. 
Final order of de-
portation. 
Places of deten-
tion. 
47 Stat. 412 
(4) no decision of deportability shall be valid unless it is 
based upon reasonable, substantial, and probative evidence. 
The procedure so prescribed shall be the sole and exclusive procedure 
for determining the deportability of an alien under this section. 
In 
any case in which an alien is ordered deported from the United States 
under the provisions of this Act, or of any other law or treaty, the 
decision of the Attorney General shall be final. In the discretion of 
the Attorney General, and under such regulations as he may prescribe, 
deportation proceedings, including issuance of a warrant of arrest, 
and a finding of deportability under this section need not be required 
in the case of any alien who admits to belonging to a class of aliens who 
are deportable under section 241 if such alien voluntarily departs 
from the United States at his own expense, or is removed at Govern-
ment expense as hereinafter authorized, unless the Attorney General 
has reason to believe that such alien is deportable under paragraph 
(4), (5), (6), (7), (11),.(12), (14), (15), (16), (17), or (18) of sec-
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•
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- tion 241 (a). 
If any alien who is authorized to depart voluntarily 
under the preceding sentence is financially unable to depart at his 
own expense and the Attorney General deems his removal to be in the 
best interest of the United States, the expense of such removal may be 
paid from the appropriation for the enforcement of this Act. 
(c) When a final order of deportation under administrative proc-
esses is made against any alien, the Attorney General shall have a 
period of six months from the date of such order, or, if judicial review 
is had, then from the date of the final order of the court, within which 
to effect the alien's departure from the United States, during which 
period, at the Attorney General's discretion, the alien may be detained, 
released on bond in an amount and containing such conditions as the 
Attorney General may prescribe, or released on such other condition 
as the Attorney General may prescribe. 
Any court of competent 
jurisdiction shall have authority to review or revise any determination 
of the Attorney General concerning detention, release on bond, or other 
release during such six-month period upon a conclusive showing in 
habeas corpus proceedings that the Attorney General is not proceeding 
with such reasonable dispatch as may be warranted by the particular 
facts and circumstances in the case of any alien to effect such alien's 
departure from the United States within such six-month period. 
If 
deportation has not been practicable, advisable, or possible, or depar-
ture of the alien from the United States under the order of deportation 
has not been effected, within such six-month period, the alien shall 
become subject to such further supervision and detention pending 
eventual deportation as is authorized in this section. 
The Attorney 
General is hereby authorized and directed to arrange for appropriate 
places of detention for those aliens whom he shall take into custody 
and detain under this section. 
Where no Federal buildings are avail-
able or buildings adapted or suitably located for the purpose are avail-
able for rental, the Attorney General is hereby authorized, notwith-
standing section 3709 of the Revised Statutes, as amended (41 U. S. C. 
5), or section 322 of the Act of June 30,1932, as amended (40 U. S. C. 
278a), to expend, from the appropriation provided for the administra-
tion and enforcement of the immigration laws, such amounts as may 
be necessary for the acquisition of land and the erection, acquisition, 
maintenance, operation, remodeling, or repair of buildings, sheds, and 
office quarters (including living quarters for officers where none are 
otherwise available), and adjunct facilities, necessary for the detention 
of aliens. For the purposes of this section an order of deportation 
heretofore or hereafter entered against an alien in legal detention or 
confinement, other than under an immigration process, shall be con-
sidered as being made as of the moment he is released from such 
detention or confinement, and not prior thereto. 
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(d) Any alien, against whom a final order of deportation as defined 
in subsection (c) heretofore or hereafter issued has been outstanding 
for more than six months, shall, pending eventual deportation, be 
subject to supervision under regulations prescribed by the Attorney 
General. 
Such regulations shall include provisions which will require 
any alien subject to supervision (1) to appear from time to time before 
an immigration officer for identification; (2) to submit, if necessary, 
to medical and psychiatric examination at the expense of the United 
States; (3) to give information under oath as to his nationality, cir-
cumstances, habits, associations, and activities, and such other infor-
mation, whether or not related to the foregoing, as the Attorney 
General may deem fit and proper; and (4) to conform to such reason-
able written restrictions on his conduct or activities as are prescribed 
by the Attorney General in his case. Any alien who shall willfully 
fail to comply with such regulations, or willfully fail to appear or to 
give information or submit to medical or psychiatric examination if 
required, or knowingly give false information in relation to the require-
ments of such regulations, or knowingly violate a reasonable restric-
tion imposed upon his conduct or activity, shall upon conviction be 
guilty of a felony, and shall be fined not more than $1,000 or shall be 
imprisoned not more than one year, or both. 
(e) Any alien against whom a final order of deportation is out-
standing by reason of being a member of any of the classes described 
in paragraphs (4), (5), (6), (7), (11), (12), (14), (15), (16), (17), 
or (18) of section 241 (a), who shall willfully fail or refuse to depart 
from the United States within a period of six months from the date 
of the final order of deportation under administrative processes, or, if 
judicial review is had, then from the date of the final order of the court, 
or from the date of the enactment of the Subversive Activities Control 
Act of 1950, whichever is the later, or shall willfully fail or refuse 
to make timely application in good faith for travel or other documents 
necessary to his departure, or who shall connive or conspire, or take 
any other action, designed to prevent or hamper or with the purpose 
of preventing or hampering his departure pursuant to such order of 
deportation, or who shall willfully fail or refuse to present himself 
for deportation at the time and place required by the Attorney 
General pursuant to such order of deportation, shall upon conviction be 
guilty of a felony, and shall be imprisoned not more than ten years: 
Frovided^ That this subsection shall not make it illegal for any alien 
to take any proper steps for the purpose of securing cancellation of or 
exemption from such order of deportation or for the purpose of 
securing his release from incarceration or custody: Provided 
further^ 
That the court may for good cause suspend the sentence of such alien 
and order his release under such conditions as the court may prescribe. 
In determining whether good cause has been shown to justify releasing 
the alien, the court shall take into account such factors as (1) the age, 
health, and period of detention of the alien; (2) the effect of the 
alien's release upon the national security and public peace or safety; 
(3) the likelihood of the alien's resuming or following a course of 
conduct which made or would make him deportable; (4) the character 
of the efforts made by such alien himself and by representatives of 
the country or countries to which his deportation is directed to 
expedite the alien's departure from the United States; (5) the reason 
for the inability of the Government of the United States to secure 
passports, other travel documents, or deportation facilities from the 
country or countries to which the alien has been ordered deported; 
and (6) the eligibility of the alien for discretionary relief under the 
immigration laws. 
Supervision; reg-
ulations. 
Violations. 
64 Stat. 987. 
SO USC781note. 
S u s p e n s ion 
sentence. 
93300 O - 53 - 17 
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Unlawful reentry. 
(f) Sliould the Attorney General find that ally alien liRS uiilawfully 
reentered the United States after having previously departed or been 
deported pursuant to an order of deportation, whether before or after 
the date of enactment of this Act, on any ground described in any of 
the paragraphs enumerated in subsection (e), the previous order of 
deportation shall be deemed to be reinstated from its original date and 
such alien shall be deported under such previous order at any time 
subsequent to such reentry. For the purposes of subsection (e) the 
date on which the finding is made that such reinstatement is appro-
priate shall be deemed the date of the final order of deportation. 
(g) If any alien, subject to supervision or detention under subsec-
tions (c) or (d) of this section, is able to depart from the United States 
under the order of deportation, except that he is financially unable to 
. ,s osc.' 
pay his passage, the Attorney General may in his discretion permit 
such alien to depart voluntarily, and the expense of such passage to 
the country to which he is destined may be paid from the appropria-
tion for the enforcement of this Act, unless such payment is otherwise 
provided for under this Act. 
(h) An alien sentenced to imprisonment shall not be deported until 
such imprisonment has been terminated by the release of the alien 
from confinement. 
Parole, probation, or possibility of rearrest or 
further confinement in respect of the same offense shall not be a ground 
for deferral of deportation. 
COUNTRIES TO W H I C H ALIENS SHALL BE DEPORTED, COST OF DEPORTATION 
SEO. 243. (a) The deportation of an alien in the United States 
provided for in this Act, or any other Act or treaty, shall be directed 
by the Attorney General to a country promptly designated by the 
"..- .1 '^- w 
alien if that country is willing to accept him into its territory, unless 
'-">•'•' 
• 
the Attorney General, in his discretion, concludes that deportation to 
such country would be prejudicial to the interests of the United 
States. 
No alien shall be permitted to make more than one such 
designation, nor shall any alien designate, as the place to which he 
wishes to be deported, any foreign territory contiguous to the United 
States or any island adjacent thereto or adjacent to the United States 
unless such alien is a native, citizen, subject, or national of, or had a 
residence in such designated foreign contiguous territory or adjacent 
island. 
If the government of the country designated by the alien 
fails finally to advise the Attorney General within three months fol-
lowing original inquiry whether that government will or will not 
cnp 
accept such alien into its territory, such designation may thereafter 
" 
' 
be disregarded. Thereupon deportation of such alien shall be directed 
to any country of which such alien is a subject national, or citizen if 
such country is willing to accept him into its territory. If the govern-
ment of such country fails finally to advise the Attorney General or 
the alien within three months following the date of original inquiry, 
or within such other period as the Attorney General shall deem rea-
sonable under the circumstances in a particular case, whether that 
government will or will not accept such alien into its territory, then 
such deportation shall be directed by the Attorney General within his 
discretion and without necessarily giving any priority or preference 
because of their order as herein set forth either— 
(1) to the country from which such alien last entered the 
United States; 
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^ 
(2) to the country in which is located the foreign port at which 
^ c ts;;. 
such alien embarked for the United States or for foreign con-
tiguous territory; 
(3) to the country in which he was born; 
(4) to the country in which the place of his birth is situated at 
the time he is ordered deported; 
(5) to any country in which he resided prior to entering the 
country from which he entered the United States; 
(6) to the country which had sovereignty over the birthplace of 
the alien at the time of his birth; or 
(7) if deportation to any of the foregoing places or countries is 
impracticable, inadvisable, or impossible, then to any country 
which is willing to accept such alien into its territory. 
(b) If the United States is at war and the deportation^ in accord-
ance with the provisions of subsection (a), of any alien who is de-
portable under any law of the United States shall be found by the 
Attorney General to be impracticable, inadvisable, inconvenient, or 
impossible because of enemy occupation of the country from which 
such alien came or wherein is located the foreign port at which he 
embarked for the United States or because of reasons connected with 
the war, such alien may, in the discretion of the Attorney General, 
be deported as follows: 
(1) if such alien is a citizen or subject of a country whose recog-
nized government is in exile, to the country in which is located 
that government in exile if that country will permit him to enter 
its territory; or 
(2) if such alien is a citizen or subject of a country whose recog-
i s nized government is not in exile, then to a country or any political 
or territorial subdivision thereof which is proximate to the coun-
try of which the alien is a citizen or subject, or, with the consent 
of the country of which the alien is a citizen or subject, to any 
other country. 
(c) If deportation proceedings are instituted at any time within 
Removal costs, 
five years after the entry of the alien for causes existing prior to or 
at the time of entry, the cost of removal to the port of deportation 
shall be at the expense of the appropriation for the enforcement of 
this Act, and the deportation from such port shall be at the expense 
of the owner or owners of the vessels, aircraft, or other transportation 
lines by which such alien came to the United States, or if in the 
opinion of the Attorney General that is not practicable, at the expense 
of the appropriation for the enforcement of this Act: Provided^ That 
the costs of the deportation of any such alien from such port shall 
not be assessed against the owner or owners of the vessels, aircraft, 
or other transportation lines in the case of any alien who arrived in 
possession of a valid unexpired immigrant visa and who was inspected 
and admitted to the United States for permanent residence. In the 
' 
case of an alien crewman, if deportation proceedings are instituted 
at any time within five years after the granting of the last conditional 
permit to land temporarily under the provisions of section 252, the 
cost of removal to the port of deportation shall be at the expense of 
the appropriation for the enforcement of this Act and the deportation 
from such port shall be at the expense of the owner or owners of the 
vessels or aircraft by which such alien came to the United States, or 
if in the opinion of the Attorney General that is not practicable, at 
the expense of the appropriation for the enforcement of this Act. 
(d) If deportation proceedings are instituted later than five years 
after the entry of the alien, or in the case of an alien crewman later 
than five years after the granting of the last conditional permit to 
land temporarily, the cost thereof shall be payable from the appro-
priation for the enforcement of this Act. 
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Failure to pay. 
Countries delay-
ing acceptance of 
deportees. 
W i t h h o Iding of 
deportation. 
(e) A failure or refusal on the part of the master, commanding 
officer, agent, owner, charterer, or consignee of a vessel, aircraft, or 
other transportation line to comply with the order of the Attorney 
General to take on board, guard safely, and transport to the destina-
tion specified any alien ordered to be deported under the provisions 
of this Act, or a failure or refusal by any such person to comply with 
an order of the Attorney General to pay deportation expenses in 
accordance with the requirements of this section, shall be punished 
by the imposition of a penalty in the sum and manner prescribed in 
section 237 (b). 
(f) When in the opinion of the Attorney General the mental or 
physical condition of an alien being deported is such as to require 
personal care and attendance, the Attorney General shall, when neces-
sary, employ a suitable person for that purpose who shall accompany 
such alien to his final destination, and the expense incident to such 
service shall be defrayed in the same manner as the expense of deport-
ing the accompanied alien is defrayed, and any failure or refusal to 
defray such expenses shall be punished in the manner prescribed by 
subsection (e) of this section. 
(g) Upon the notification by the Attorney General that any country 
upon request denies or unduly delays acceptance of the return of any 
alien who is a national, citizen, subject, or resident thereof, the Secre-
tary of State shall instruct consular officers performing their duties 
in the territory of such country to discontinue the issuance of immi-
grant visas to nationals, citizens, subjects, or residents of such country, 
until such time as the Attorney General shall inform the Secretary of 
State that such country has accepted such alien. 
(h) The Attorney General is authorized to withhold deportation of 
any alien within the United States to any country in which in his 
opinion the alien would be subject to physical persecution and for such 
period of time as he deems to be necessary for such reason. 
39 Stat. 889. 
8 u s e 155. 
SUSPENSION OF DEPORTATION ; VOLUNTARY DEPARTURE 
SEC. 244. (a) As hereinafter prescribed in this section, the Attorney 
General may, in his discretion, suspend deportation and adjust the 
status to that of an alien lawfully admitted for permanent residence, 
in the case of an alien who— 
(1) applies to the Attorney General within five years after the 
effective date of this Act for suspension of deportation; last enter-
ed the United States more than two years prior to the date of 
enactment of this Act; is deportable under any law of the United 
States and is not a member of a class of aliens whose deportation 
could not have been suspended by reason of section 19 (d) of the 
Immigration Act of 1917, as amended; and has been physically 
present in the United States for a continuous period of not less 
than seven years immediately preceding the date of such applica-
tion, and proves that during all of such period he was and is a 
person of good moral character; and is a person whose deportation 
w^ould, in the opinion of the Attorney General, result in excep-
tional and extremely unusual hardship to the alien or to his spouse, 
parent or child, w^ho is a citizen or an alien lawfully admitted for 
permanent residence; or 
(2) last entered the United States within two years prior to or 
at any time after the date of enactment of this Act; is deportable 
under any law of the United States solely for an act committed 
or status existing prior to or at the time of such entry into the 
United States and is not within the provisions of paragraph (4) 
of this subsection; was possessed of all of the requisite docu-
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215 
ments at the time of such entry into the United States; has been 
physically present in the United States for a continuous period 
of not less than five years immediately preceding his application 
under this paragraph, and proves that during all of such period 
he has been and is a person of good moral character; has not been 
served with a final order of deportation issued pursuant to this 
Act in deportation proceedings up to the time of applying to 
the Attorney General for suspension'of deportation; and is a 
person whose deportation would, in the opinion of the Attorney 
General, result in exceptional and extremely unusual hardship 
to the alien or to his spouse, parent, or child, who is a citizen 
or an alien lawfully admitted for permanent residence; or 
(3) last entered the United States within two years prior to, or 
at any time after the date of enactment of this Act; is deportable 
under any law of the United States for an act committed or status 
acquired subsequent to such entry into the United States and is 
not within the provisions of paragraph (4) or (5) of this subsec-
tion; was possessed of all of the requisite documents at the time 
of such entry into the United States; has been physically present 
in the United States for a continuous period of not less than five 
years immediately following the commission of an act, or the 
assumption of a status, constituting a ground for deportation, 
and proves that during all of such period he has been and is a 
person of good moral character; has not baen served with a 
final order of deportation issued pursuant to this Act in deporta-
tion proceedings up to the time of applying to the Attorney 
General for suspension of deportation; and is a person whose 
deportation would, in the opinion of the Attorney General, result 
in exceptional and extremely unusual hardship to the alien or to 
his spouse, parent, or child, who is a citizen or an alien lawfully 
admitted for permanent residence; or 
(4) last entered the United States within two years prior to, or 
at any time after the date of enactment of this Act; is deportable 
under paragraph (1) of section 241 (a) insofar as it relates to 
criminals, prostitutes or other immoral persons, subversives, 
violators of narcotic laws and similar classes or under paragraph 
(2) of section 241 (a), as a person who entered the United States 
without inspection or at a time or place other than as designated 
by the Attorney General, or without the proper documents and 
is not within the provisions of paragraph (5) of this subsection; 
has been physically present in the United States for a continuous 
period of not less than ten years after such entry and immediately 
preceding his application under this paragraph and proves that 
during all of such period he has been and is a person of good 
moral character; has not been served with a final order of depor-
tation issued pursuant to this Act in deportation proceedings up 
to the time of applying to the Attorney General for suspension of 
deportation; and is a person whose deportation would, in the 
opinion of the Attorney General, result in exceptional and 
extremely unusual hardship to the alien or to his spouse, parent, 
or child, who is a citizen or an alien lawfully admitted for per-
manent residence; or 
(5) is deportable under paragraph (4), (5), (6), (7), (11), 
(12), (14), (15), (16), (17) or (18) of section 241 (a) for an act 
conimitted or status acquired subsequent to such entry into the 
United States or having last entered the United States within two 
years prior to, or at any time after the date of enactment of this 
Act, is deportable under para*?raph (2) of section 241 (a) as a per-
son who has remained longer in the United States than the period 
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for which he was admitted; lias been physically present in the 
United States for a continuous period of not less than ten years 
: 
immediately following the commission of an act, or the assumption 
of a status, constituting a ground for deportation, and proves that 
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during all of such period he has been and is a person of good 
moral character; has not been served with a final order of depor-
" 
tation issued pursuant to this Act in deportation proceedings up 
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to the time of applying to the Attorney General for suspension 
of deportation; and is a person whose deportation would, in the 
opinion of the Attorney General, result in exceptional and 
extremely unusual hardship to the alien or to his spouse, parent, 
or child, who is a citizen or an alien lawfully admitted for perma-
nent residence. 
(b) Upon application by any alien who is found by the Attorney 
General to meet the requirements of paragraph (1), (2), or (3) of 
subsection (a) of this section, the Attorney General may in his dis-
Report to Con- crctiou suspcud deportatiou of such alien. 
If the deportation of any 
alien is suspended under the provisions of this subsection, a complete 
and detailed statement of the facts and pertinent provisions of law in 
the case shall be reported to the Congress with the reasons for such 
suspension. 
Such reports shall be submitted on the first and fifteenth 
day of each calendar month in which Congress is in session. 
If during 
the session of the Congress at which a case is reported, or, prior to the 
close of the session of the Congress next following the session at which 
a case is reported, either the Senate or the House of Representatives 
passes a resolution stating in substance that it does not favor the 
suspension of such deportation, the Attorney General shall thereupon 
deport such alien or authorize the alien's voluntary departure at his 
own expense under the order of deportation in the manner provided 
by law. 
If neither the Senate nor the House of Representatives shall, 
within the time above specified, pass such a resolution, the Attorney 
General shall cancel deportation proceedings. 
The provisions of this 
subsection relating to the granting of suspension of deportation shall 
not be applicable to any alien who is a native of any country contiguous 
to the United States or of any adjacent island, unless he establishes 
to the satisfaction of the Attorney General that he is ineligible to 
obtain a nonquota immigrant visa. 
(c) Upon application by any alien who is found by the Attorney 
General to meet the requirements of paragraph (4) or (5) of subsec-
tion (a) of this section, the Attorney General may in his discretion 
gres*^°'* *° ^°"" suspend deportation of such alien. 
If the deportation of any alien is 
suspended under the provisions of this subsection, a complete and 
detailed statement of the facts and pertinent provisions of law in the 
case shall be reported to the Congress with the reasons for such suspen-
sion. 
Such reports shall be submitted on the first and fifteenth day 
of each calendar month in which Congress is in session. 
If during the 
session of the Congress at which a case is reported, or, prior to the 
close of the session of the Congress next following the session at which 
a case is reported, the Congress passes a concurrent resolution stating 
in substance that it favors the suspension of such deportation, the 
Attorney General shall cancel deportation proceedings. 
If within the 
time above specified the Congress does not pass such a concurrent 
resolution, or if either the Senate or House of Representatives passes 
a resolution stating in substance that it does not favor the suspension 
of the deportation of such alien, the Attorney General shall thereupon 
deport siich alien in the manner provided by law. 
(d) Upon the cancellation of deportation in the case of any alien 
under this section, the Attorney General shall record the alien's lawful 
admission for permanent residence as of the date the cancellation of 
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deportation of such alien is made, and the Secretary of State shall, if 
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the alien was classifiable as a quota immigrant at the time of entry 
and was not charged to the appropriate quota, reduce by one the quota 
of the quota area to which the alien is chargeable under section 202 
for the fiscal year then current at the time of cancellation or the next 
following year in which a quota is available. 
No quota shall be so 
reduced by more than 50 per centum in any fiscal year. 
(e) The Attorney General may, in his discretion, permit any alien jj^''^""*"'^ depar-
under deportation proceedings, other than an alien within the provis-
ions of paragraph (4), (5), (6), (7), (11), (12), (14), (15), (16), 
(17), or (18) of section 241 (a), (and also any alien within the pur-
view of such paragraphs if he is also within the provisions of para-
graph (4) or (5) of subsection (a) of this section), to depart volun-
tarily from the United States at his own expense in lieu of deportation 
if such alien shall establish to the satisfaction of the Attorney General 
that he is, and has been, a person of good moral character for at least 
five years immediately preceding his application for voluntary depar-
ture under this subsection. 
ADJUSTMENT OF STATUS OF NONIMMIGRANT TO T H A T OF PERSON ADMITTED 
FOR PERMANENT RESIDENCE 
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SEC. 245. (a) The status of an alien who was lawfully admitted to 
the United States as a bona fide nonimmigrant and who is continuing 
to maintain that status may be adjusted by the Attorney General in 
his discretion (under such regulations as he may prescribe to insure 
the application of this paragraph solely to the cases of aliens who 
entered the United States in good faith as nonimmigrants) to that of 
an alien lawfully admitted for permanent residence as a quota im-
migrant or as a nonquota immigrant under section 101 (a) (27) (A), 
if (1) the alien makes application for adjustment, (2) the alien is ad-
missible to the United States for permanent residence under this Act, 
(3) a quota or nonquota immigrant visa was immediately available to 
him at the time of his application for adjustment, (4) a quota or non-
quota immigrant visa is immediately available to him at the time his 
application is approved, and (5) if claiming a nonquota status under 
section 101 (a) (27) (A) he has been in the United States for at least 
one year prior to acquiring that status. A quota immigrant visa shall 
be considered immediately available for the purposes of this subsection 
only if the portion of the quota to which the alien is chargeable is 
undersubscribed by applicants registered on a consular waiting list. 
Any alien who shall file an application for adjustment of his status 
under this section shall thereby terminate his nonimmigrant status. 
(b) Upon the approval of an application for adjustment made 
under subsection (a), the Attorney General shall record the alien's 
lawful admission for permanent residence as of the date the order of 
the Attorney General approving the application for the adjustment 
of status is made, and the Secretary of State shall reduce by one the 
quota of the quota area to which the alien is chargeable under section 
202 for the fiscal year current at the time such adjustment is made. 
RESCISSION OF ADJUSTMENT OF STATUS 
SEC. 246. (a) If, at any time within five years after the status of a gr^gsf °'* *° ^°"' 
person has been adjusted under the provisions of section 244 of this 
Act or under section 19 (c) of the Immigration Act of February 5, 
1917, to that of an alien lawfully admitted for permanent residence, it 
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shall appear to the satisfaction of the Attorney General that the person 
was not in fact eligible for such adjustment of status, the Attorney 
General shall submit to the Congress a complete and detailed statement 
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of the facts and pertinent provisions of law in the case. Such reports 
shall be submitted on the first and fifteenth day of each calendar month 
in which Congress is in session. If during the session of the Congress 
at which a case is reported, or prior to the close of the session of the 
Congress next following the session at which a case is reported, the 
Congress passes a concurrent resolution withdrawing suspension of 
deportation, the person shall thereupon be subject to all provisions of 
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this Act to the same extent as if the adjustment of status had not been 
made. If, at any time within five years after the status of a person has 
been otherwise adjusted under the provisions of section 245 or 249 
of this Act or any other provision of law to that of an alien lawfully 
admitted for permanent residence, it shall appear to the satisfaction of 
the Attorney General that the person was not in fact eligible for such 
adjustment of status, the Attorney General shall rescind the action 
taken granting an adjustment of status to such person and cancelling 
deportation in the case of such person if that occurred and the person 
shall thereupon be subject to all provisions of this Act to the same 
extent as if the adjustment of status had not been made. 
(b) Any person who has become a naturalized citizen of the United 
States upon the basis of a recotd of a lawful admission for permanent 
residence, created as a result of an adjustment of status for which such 
person was not in fact eligible, and which is subsequently rescinded 
under subsection (a) of this section, shall be subject to the provisions 
of section 840 of this Act as a person whose naturalization w^as pro-
cured by concealment of a material fact or by willful misrepresen-
tation. 
ADJUSTMENT OF STATUS OF CERTAIN RESIDENT ALIENS TO NONIMMIGRANT 
STATUS 
SEC. 247. (a) The status of an alien lawfully admitted for perma-
nent residence shall be adjusted by the Attorney General, under such 
regulations as he may prescribe, to that of a nonimmigrant under 
paragraph (15) (A), (15) (E), or (15) (G) of section 101 (a), if 
such alien had at the time of entry or subsequently acquires an occupa-
tional status which would, if he were seeking admission to the United 
States, entitle him to a nonimmigrant status under such sections. As 
of the date of the Attorney General's order making such adjustment 
of status, the Attorney General shall cancel the record of the alien's 
admission for permanent residence, and the immigrant status of such 
alien shall thereby be terminated. 
(b) The adjustment of status required by subsection (a) shall not 
be applicable in the case of any alien who requests that he be permitted 
to retain his status as an immigrant and who, in such form as the 
Attorney (jeneral may require, executes and files with the Attorney 
General a written waiver of all rights, privileges, exemptions, and 
immunities under any law or any executive order which would other-
wise accrue to him because of the acquisition of an occupational status 
entitling him to a nonimmigrant status under paragraph (15) (A), 
(15) (E),or (15) (G) of section 101 (a). 
CHANGE OF NONIMMIGRANT CLASSIFICATION 
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SEC 248. The Attorney General may, under such conditions as he 
may prescribe, authorize a change from any nonimmigrant classifica-
tion to any other nonimmigrant classification in the case of any alien 
lawfully admitted to the United States as a nonimmigrant who is 
continuing to maintain that status, except an alien classified as a 
nonimmigrant under paragraph 15 (D) of section 101 (a), or an 
alien classified as a nonimmigrant under paragraph (15) (C) of 
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section 101 (a) unless he applies to have his classification changed 
from a classification under paragraph (15) (C) to a classification 
under paragraph (15) (A) or (15) (G) of section 101 (a). 
RECORD OF ADMISSION FOR PERMANENT RESIDENCE I N T H E CASE OF CERTAIN 
ALIENS W H O ENTERED T H E UNITED STATES PRIOR TO J U L Y 1, 19 24 
SEC, 249. (a) A record of lawful admission for permanent residence 
may, in the discretion of the Attorney General and under such regu-
lations as he may prescribe, be made in the case of any alien, if no such 
record is otherwise available and such alien shall satisfy the Attorney 
General that he— 
(1) entered the United States prior to July 1,1924; 
(2) has had his residence in the United States continuously 
since such entry; 
(3) is a person of good moral character; 
(4) is not subject to deportation; and 
(5) is not ineligible to citizenship. 
(b) An alien in respect of whom a record of admission has been made 
as authorized by subsection (a), shall be deemed to have been lawfully 
admitted to the United States for permanent residence as of the date 
of his entry prior to July 1,1924. 
REMOVAL OF ALIENS W H O HAVE FALLEN INTO DISTRESS 
SEC. 250. The Attorney General may remove from the United States 
any alien who falls into distress or who needs public aid from causes 
arising subsequent to his entry, and is desirous of being so removed, 
to the native country of such alien, or to the country from which he 
came, or to the country of which he is a citizen or subject, or to any 
other country to which he wishes to go and which will receive him, at 
the expense of the appropriation for the enforcement of this Act. Any 
alien so removed shall be ineligible to apply for or receive a visa or 
other documentation for readmission, or to apply for admission to the 
United States except with the prior approval of the Attorney General. 
CHAPTER 6—SPECIAL PROVISIONS KELATING TO ALIEN CREWMEN 
LISTS OF A L I E N CREWMEN ; REPORTS OF ILLEGAL LANDINGS 
SEC. 251. (a) Upon arrival of any vessel or aircraft in the United 
States from any place outside the United States it shall be the duty 
of the owner, agent, consignee, master, or commanding officer thereof 
to deliver to an immigration officer at the port of arrival (1) a com-
plete, true, and correct list containing the names of all aliens employed 
on such vessel or aircraft, the positions they respectively hold in the 
crew of the vessel or aircraft, when and where they were respectively 
shipped or engaged, and those to be paid off or discharged in the 
port of arrival; or (2) in the discretion of the Attorney General, such a 
list containing so much of such information, or such additional or 
supplemental information, as the Attorney General shall by regulations 
prescribe. In the case of a vessel engaged solely in traffic on the Great 
Lakes, Saint Lawrence River, and connecting waterways, such lists 
shall be furnished at such times as the Attorney General may require. 
(b) It shall be the duty of any owner, agent, consignee, master, or 
commanding officer of any vessel or aircraft to report to an immigra-
tion officer, in writing, as soon as discovered, all cases in which any 
alien crewman has illegally landed in the United States from the vessel 
or aircraft, together with a description of such alien and any infor-
mation likely to lead to his apprehension. 
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Violations. 
F a i l u r e to de-
liver lists, etc. 
(c) Before the departure of any vessel or aircraft from any port 
in the United States, it shall be the duty of the owner, agent, con-
signee, master, or commanding officer thereof, to deliver to an immi-
gration officer at that port (1) a list containing the names of all alien 
employees who were not employed thereon at the time of the arrival 
at that port but who will leave such port thereon at the time of the 
departure of such vessel or aircraft and the names of those, if any, 
who have been paid off or discharged, and of those, if any, who have 
deserted or landed at that port, or (2) in the discretion of the Attorney 
General, such a list containing so much of such information, or such 
additional or supplemental information, as the Attorney General 
shall by regulations prescribe. 
In the case of a vessel engaged solely 
in traffic on the Great Lakes, Saint Lawrence River, and connecting 
waterways, such lists shall be furnished at such times as the Attorney 
General may require. 
(d) In case any owner, agent, consignee, master, or commanding 
officer shall fail to deliver complete, true, and correct lists or reports 
of aliens, or to report cases of desertion or landing, as required by sub-
sections (a), (b), and (c), such owner, agent, consignee, master, or 
commanding officer, shall, if required by the Attorney General, pay to 
the collector of customs of any customs district in which the vessel or 
aircraft may at any time be found the sum. of $10 for each alien con-
cerning whom such lists are not delivered or such reports are not made 
as required in the preceding subsections. 
No such vessel or aircraft 
shall be granted clearance from any port at which it arrives pending 
the determination of the question of the liability to the payment of 
such fine, and if such fine is imposed, while it remains unpaid. 
No 
such fine shall be remitted or refunded. 
Clearance may be granted 
prior to the determination of such question upon deposit of a bond or 
a sum sufficient to cover such fine. 
(e) The Attorney General is authorized to prescribe by regulations 
the circumstances under which a vessel or aircraft shall be deemed to 
be arriving in, or departing from the United States or any port thereof 
within the meaning of any provision of this chapter. 
Revocation. 
CONDITIONAL PEEMITS TO LAND TEMPORARILY 
SEC. 252. (a) No alien crewman shall be permitted to land tempo-
rarily in the United States except as provided in this section, section 
212 (d) (3), section 212 (d) (5), and section 253. If an immigration 
officer finds upon examination that an alien crewman is a nonimmi-
grant under paragraph (15) (D) of section 101 (a) and is otherwise 
admissible and has agreed to accept such permit, he may, in his dis-
cretion, grant the crewman a conditional permit to land temporarily 
pursuant to regulations prescribed by the Attorney General, subject 
to revocation in subsequent proceedings as provided in subsection (b), 
and for a period of time, in any event, not to exceed— 
(1) the period of time (not exceeding twenty-nine days) dur-
ing which the vessel or aircraft on which he arrived remains in 
port, if the immigration officer is satisfied that the crewman in-
tends to depart on the vessel or aircraft on which he arrived; or 
(2) twenty-nine days, if the immigration officer is satisfied that 
the crewman intends to depart, within the period for which he is 
permitted to land, on a vessel or aircraft other than the one on 
which he arrived. 
(b) Pursuant to regulations prescribed by the Attorney General, 
any immigration officer may, in his discretion, if he determines that 
an alien is not a bona fide crewman, or does not intend to depart on the 
vessel or aircraft which brought him, revoke the conditional permit to 
land which was granted such crewman under the provisions of sub-
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section (a) (1), take such crewman into custody, and require the 
master or commanding officer of the vessel or aircraft on which the 
crewman arrived to receive and detain him on board such vessel or 
aircraft, if practicable, and such crewman shall be deported from the 
United States at the expense of the transportation line which brought 
liim to the United States. Until such alien is so deported, any expenses 
of his detention shall be borne by such transportation company. Noth-
ing in this section shall be construed to require the procedure pre-
scribed in section 242 of this Act to cases falling within the provisions 
of this subsection. 
(c) Any alien crewman who willfully remains in the United States 
in excess of the number of days allowed in any conditional permit 
issued under subsection (a) shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and 
upon conviction thereof shall be fined not more than $500 or shall be 
imprisoned for not more than six months, or both. 
Expenses of de-
tention. 
Penalty. 
, HOSPITAL TREATMENT OF ALIEN CREWMEN AFFLICTED WITH CERTAIN 
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DISEASES 
SEC. 253. An alien crewman, including an alien crewman ineligible 
for a conditional permit to land under section 252 (a), who is found on 
arrival in a port of the United States to be afflicted with any of the dis-
abilities or diseases mentioned in section 255, shall be placed in a 
hospital designated by the immigration officer in charge at the port 
of arrival and treated, all expenses connected therewith, including 
burial in the event of death, to be borne by the owner, agent, consignee, 
commanding officer, or master of the vessel or aircraft, and not to be 
deducted from the crewman's wages. No such vessel or aircraft shall 
be granted clearance until such expenses are paid, or their payment 
appropriately guaranteed, and the collector of customs is so notified by 
the immigration officer in charge. An alien crewman suspected of 
being afflicted with any such disability or disease may be removed from 
the vessel or aircraft on which he arrived to an immigration station, 
or other appropriate place, for such observation as will enable the 
examining surgeons to determine definitely whether or not he is so 
afflicted, all expenses connected therewith to be borne in the manner 
hereinbefore prescribed. In cases in which it appears to the satisfac-
tion of the immigration officer in charge that it will not be possible 
within a reasonable time to effect a cure, the return of the alien crew-
man shall be enforced on, or at the expense of, the transportation line 
on which he came, upon such conditions as the Attorney General shall 
prescribe, to insure that the alien shall be properly cared for and 
protected, and that the spread of contagion shall be guarded against. 
CONTROL o r ALIEN CREWMEN 
SEC. 254. (a) The owner, agent, consignee, charterer, master, or 
commanding officer of any vessel or aircraft arriving in the United 
States from any place outside thereof who fails (1) to detain on board 
the vessel, or in trie case of an aircraft to detain at a place specified by 
an immigration officer at the expense of the airline, any alien crew-
man employed thereon until an immigration officer has completely 
inspected such alien crewman, including a physical examination by 
the medical examiner, or (2) to detain any alien crewman on board 
the vessel, or in the case of an aircraft at a place specified by an immi-
gration officer at the expense of the airline, after such inspection unless 
a conditional permit to land temporarily has been granted such alien 
crewman under section 252 or unless an alien crewman has been per-
mitted to land temporarily under section 212 (d) (5) or 253 for 
medical or hospital treatment, or (3) to deport such alien crewman if 
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required to do so by an immigration officer, whether such deportation 
requirement is imposed before or after the crewman is perniitted to 
land temporarily under section 212 (d) (5), 252, or 253, shall pay 
to the collector of customs of the customs district in which the port of 
arrival is located or in which the failure to comply with the orders 
of the officer occurs the sum of $1,000 for each alien crewman in respect 
of whom any such failure occurs. No such vessel or aircraft shall be 
granted clearance pending the determination of the liability to the 
payment of such fine, or while the fine remains unpaid, except that 
clearance may be granted prior to the determination of such question 
upon the deposit of a sum sufficient to cover such fine, or of a bond 
with sufficient surety to secure the payment thereof approved by the 
collector of customs. 
The Attorney General may, upon application 
in writing therefor, mitigate such penalty to not less than $200 for 
each alien crewman in respect of whom such failure occurs, upon such 
terms as he shall think proper. 
(b) Except as may be otherwise prescribed by regulations issued by 
the Attorney General, proof that an alien crewman did not appear 
upon the outgoing manifest of the vessel or aircraft on which he ar-
rived in the United States from any place outside thereof, or that he 
was reported by the master or commanding officer of such vessel or 
aircraft as a deserter, shall be prima facie evidence of a failure to de-
tain or deport such alien crewman. 
(c) If the Attorney General finds that deportation of an alien crew-
man under this section on the vessel or aircraft on which he arrived 
is impracticable or impossible, or would cause undue hardship to such 
alien crewman, he may cause the alien crewman to be deported from 
the port of arrival or any other port on another vessel or aircraft of the 
same transportation line, unless the Attorney General finds this to be 
impracticable. All expenses incurred in connection with such deporta-
tion, including expenses incurred in transferring an alien crewman 
from one place in the United States to another under such conditions 
and safeguards as the Attorney General shall impose, shall be paid 
by the owner or owners of the vessel or aircraft on which the alien 
arrived in the United States. The vessel or aircraft on which the alien 
arrived shall not be granted clearance until such expenses have been 
paid or their payment guaranteed to the satisfaction of the Attorney 
General. An alien crewman who is transferred within the United 
States in accordance with this subsection shall not be regarded as hav-
ing been landed in the United States. 
EMPLOYMENT ON PASSENGER VESSELS OF ALIENS AFFLICrTED W I T H CERTAIN 
DISABILITIES 
SEC. 255. It shall be unlawful for any vessel or aircraft carrying 
passengers between a port of the United States and a port outside 
thereof to have employed on board upon arrival in the United States 
any alien afflicted with feeble-mindedness, insanity, epilepsy, tuber-
culosis in any form, leprosy, or any dangerous contagious disease. If 
it appears to the satisfaction of the Attorney General, from an exam-
ination made by a medical officer of the United States Public Health 
Service, and is so certified by such officer, that any such alien was so 
afflicted at the time he was shipped or engaged and taken on board 
such vessel or aircraft and that the existence of such affliction might 
have been detected by means of a competent medical examination 
at such time, the owner, commanding officer, agent, consignee, or 
master thereof shall pay for each alien so afflicted to the collector of 
customs of the customs district in which the port of arrival is located 
the sum of $50. No vessel or aircraft shall be granted clearance pend-
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ing the determination of the question of the liability to the payment 
of such sums, or while such sums remain unpaid, except that clearance 
may be granted prior to the determination of such question upon the 
deposit of an amount sufficient to cover such sums or of a bond ap-
proved by the collector of customs with sufficient surety to secure the 
payment thereof. Any such fine may, in the discretion of the Attorney 
General, be mitigated or remitted. 
DISCHARGE OF ALIEN CREWMEN 
SEC. 256. It shall be unlawful for any person, including the owner, 
agent, consignee, charterer, master, or commanding officer of any 
vessel or aircraft, to pa^ off or discharge any alien crewman, except 
an alien lawfully admitted for permanent residence, employed on 
board a vessel or aircraft arriving in the United States without first 
having obtained the consent of the Attorney General. If it shall 
appear to the satisfaction of the Attorney General that any alien 
crewman has been paid off or discharged in the United States in vio-
lation of the provisions of this section, such owner, agent, consignee, 
charterer, master, commanding officer, or other person, shall pay to 
the collector of customs of the customs district in which the violation 
occurred the sum of $1,000 for each such violation. No vessel or air-
craft shall be granted clearance pending the determination of the 
question of the liability to the payment of such sums, or while such 
sums remain unpaid, except that clearance may be granted prior to 
the determination of such question upon the deposit of an amount 
sufficient to cover such sums, or of a bond approved by the collector 
of customs with sufficient surety to secure the payment thereof. 
Such 
fine may, in the discretion of the Attorney General, be mitigated to 
not less than $500 for each violation, upon such terms as he shall think 
proper. 
BRINGING ALIEN CREWMEN INTO UNITED STATES WITH INTENT TO 
EVADE IMMIGRATION LAWS 
S E C 257. Any person, including the owner, agent, consignee, mas-
ter, or commanding officer of any vessel or aircraft arriving in the 
United States from any place outside thereof, who shall knowingly 
sign on the vessel's articles, or bring to the United States as one of 
the crew of such vessel or aircraft, any alien, with intent to permit 
or assist such alien to enter or land in the United States in violation 
of law, or who shall falsely and knowingly represent to a consular 
officer at the time of application for visa, or to the immigration officer 
at the port of arrival in the United States, that such alien is a bona 
fide member of the crew employed in any capacity regularly required 
for normal operation and services aboard such vessel or aircraft, shall 
be liable to a penalty not exceeding $5,000 for each such violation, 
for which sum such vessel or aircraft shall be liable and may be seized 
and proceeded against by way of libel in any district court of the 
United States having jurisdiction of the offense. 
CHAPTER 7—REGISTRATION OF ALIENS 
ALIENS SEEKING ENTRY INTO THE UNITED STATES 
SEC, 261. No visa shall be issued to any alien seeking to enter the 
United States until such alien has been registered and 
fingerprinted 
in accordance with section 221 (b), unless such alien has been exempted 
from being fingerprinted as provided in that section. 
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REGISTRATION OF ALIENS I N T H E UNITED STATES 
SEC. 262. (a) It shall be the duty of every alien now or hereafter in 
the United States, who (1) is fourteen years of age or older, (2) has 
not been registered and fingerprinted under section 221 (b) of this 
8'*us*c*45^^,^*452. ^^^ ^^ sectiou 30 or 31 of the Alien Registration Act, 1940, and (3) 
remains in the United States for thirty days or longer, to apply for 
registration and to be fingerprinted before the expiration of such 
thirty days. 
(b) It shall be the duty of every parent or legal guardian of any 
alien now or hereafter in the United States, who (1) is less than four-
teen years of age, (2) has not been registered under section 221 (b) 
of this Act or section 30 or 31 of the Alien Registration Act, 1940, and 
(3) remains in the United States for thirty days or longer, to apply 
for the registration of such alien before the expiration of such thirty 
days. 
Whenever any alien attains his fourteenth birthday in the 
United States he shall, within thirty days thereafter, apply in per-
son for registration and to be 
fingerprinted. 
PROVISIONS GOVERNING REGISTRATION OF SPECIAL GROUPS 
SEO, 263. (a) Notwithstanding the provisions of sections 261 and 
262, the Attorney General is authorized to prescribe special regula-
tions and forms for the registration and fingerprinting of (1) alien 
crewmen, (2) holders of border-crossing identification cards, (3) 
aliens confined in institutions within the United States, (4) aliens 
under order of deportation, and (5) aliens of any other class not law-
fully admitted to the United States for permanent residence. 
_^^Nonappiicabii- 
(]^) ^j^g provlsious of sectiou 262 and of this section shall not be 
applicable to any alien who is in the United States as a nonimmigrant 
under section 101 (a) (15) (A) or 101 (a) (15) (G) until the alien 
ceases to be entitled to such a nonimmigrant status. 
FORMS AND PROCEDURE 
SEC. 264. (a) The Attorney General and the Secretary of State 
jointly are authorized and directed to prepare forms for the registra-
tion and fingerprinting of aliens under section 261 of this title, and 
the Attorney General is authorized and directed to prepare forms 
for the registration and 
fingerprinting 
of aliens under section 262 
of this title. 
Such forms shall contain inquiries with respect to (1) 
the date and place of entry of the alien into the United States; (2) 
activities in which he has been and intends to be engaged; (3) the 
length of time he expects to remain in the United States; (4) the police 
and criminal record, if any, of such alien; and (5) such additional 
matters as may be prescribed. 
(b) All registration and fingerprint records made under the provi-
sions of this title shall be confidential, and shall be made available 
only to such persons or agencies as may be designated by the Attorney 
General. 
(c) Every person required to apply for the registration of himself 
or another under this title shall submit under oath the information 
required for such registration. 
Any person authorized under regu-
lations issued by the Attorney General to register aliens under this 
title shall be authorized to administer oaths for such purpose. 
(d) Every alien in the United States who has been registered and 
fingerprinted 
under the provisions of the Alien Registration Act, 
IVl^c^s/note. 1940, or under the provisions of this Act shall be issued a certificate 
of alien registration or an alien registration receipt card in such form 
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and manner and at such time as shall be prescribed under regulations 
issued by the Attorney General. 
(e) Every alien, eighteen years of age and over, shall at all times 
carry with him and have in his personal possession any certificate 
of alien registration or alien registration receipt card issued to him 
pursuant to subsection (d). Any alien who fails to comply with the 
provisions of this subsection shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and 
shall upon conviction for each offense be fined not to exceed $100 or be 
imprisoned not more than thirty days, or both. 
NOTICES OF CHANGE OF ADDRESS 
SEC. 265. Every alien required to be registered under this title, or 
who was required to be registered under the Alien Registration Act, 
1940, as amended, who is within the United States on the first day of 
8^Js*c*4M'n•ote. 
January following the effective date of this Act, or on the first day of 
January of each succeeding year shall, within thirty days following 
such dates, notify the Attorney General in writing of his current 
address and furnish such additional information as may by regulations 
be required by the Attorney General. 
Any such alien shall likewise 
notify the Attorney General in writing of each change of address and 
new address within ten days from the date of such change. Any such 
alien who is temporarily absent from the United States on the first day 
of January following the effective date of this Act, or on the first day of 
January of any succeeding year shall furnish his current address and 
other information as required by this section within ten days after 
his return. 
Any such alien in the United States in a lawful tem-
porary residence status shall in like manner also notify the Attorney 
General in writing of his address at the expiration of each three-
month period during which he remains in the United States, regardless 
of whether there has been any change of address. In the case of an 
alien for whom a parent or legal guardian is required to apply for 
registration, the notice required by this section shall be given by such 
parent or legal guardian. 
PENALTIES 
SEC. 266. (a) Any alien required to apply for registration and to be 
fingerprinted 
in the United States who willfully fails or refuses to 
make such application or to be fingerprinted, and any parent or legal 
guardian required to apply for the registration of any alien who will-
fully fails or refuses to file application for the registration of such 
alien shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall, upon conviction 
thereof, be fined not to exceed $1,000 or be imprisoned not more than 
six months, or both. 
(b) Any alien or any parent or legal guardian in the United States 
of any alien who fails to give w^ritten notice to the Attorney General, 
as required by section 265 of this title, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor 
and shall, upon conviction thereof, be fined not to exceed $200 or be 
imprisoned not more than thirty days, or both. 
Irrespective of 
whether an alien is convicted and punished as herein provided, any 
alien who fails to give written notice to the Attorney General, as re-
quired by section 265, shall be taken into custody and deported in the 
manner provided by chapter 5 of this title, unless such alien estab-
lishes to the satisfaction of the Attorney General that such failure was 
reasonably excusable or was not willful. 
(c) Any alien or any parent or legal guardian of any alien, who files 
an application for registration containing statements known by him 
to be false, or who procures or attempts to procure registration of 
himself or another person through fraud, shall be guilty of a mis-
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demeanor and shall, upon conviction thereof, be fined not to exceed 
$1,000, or be imprisoned not more than six months, or both; and any 
alien so convicted shall, upon the warrant of the Attorney General, 
be taken into custody and be deported in the manner provided in 
chapter 5 of this title. 
(d) Any person who with unlawful intent photographs, prints, or 
in any other manner makes, or executes, any engraving, photograph, 
print, or impression in the likeness of any certificate of alien registra-
tion or an alien registration receipt card or any colorable imitation 
thereof, except when and as authorized under such rules and regula-
tions as may be prescribed by the Attorne^j' General, shall upon con-
viction be fined not to exceed $5,000 or be imprisoned not more than 
five years, or both. 
CHAPTER 8—GENERAL PENALTY PROVISIONS 
PREVENTION OF UNAUTHORIZED LANDING OF ALIENS 
SEC. 271. (a) It shall be the duty of every person, including the 
owners, masters, officers, and agents of vessels, aircraft, transportation 
lines, or international bridges or toll roads, other than transportation 
lines which may enter into a contract as provided in section 238, bring-
ing an alien to, or providing a means for an alien to come to, the 
United States (including an alien crewman whose case is not covered 
by section 254 (a)) to prevent the landing of such alien in the United 
States at a port of entry other than as designated by the Attorney 
General or at any time or place other than as designated by the immi-
gration officers. Any such person, owner, master, officer, or agent who 
fails to comply with the foregoing requirements shall be liable to a 
penalty to be imposed by the Attorney General of $1,000 for each 
such violation, which may, in the discretion of the Attorney General, 
be remitted or mitigated by him in accordance with such proceedings 
as he shall by regulation prescribe. Such penalty shall be a lien upon 
the vessel or aircraft whose owner, master, officer, or agent violates the 
provisions of this section, and such vessel or aircraft may be libeled 
therefor in the appropriate United States court. 
(b) Proof that the alien failed to present himself at the time and 
place designated by the immigration officers shall be prima facie evi-
dence that such alien has landed in the United States at a time or place 
other than as designated by the immigration officers. 
BRINGING I N ALIENS SUBJECT TO DISABILITY OR AFFLICTED W I T H 
DISEASE 
SEC 272. (a) Any person who shall bring to the United States an 
alien (other than an alien crewman) who is (1) feeble-minded, (2) 
insane, (3) an epileptic, (4) afflicted with psychopathic personality, 
(5) a chronic alcoholic, (6) afflicted with tuberculosis in any form, 
(7) afflicted with leprosy or any dangerous contagious disease, or (8) 
a narcotic drug addict, shall pay to the collector of customs of the 
customs district in which the place of arrival is located for each and 
every alien so afflicted, the sum of $1,000 unless (1) the alien was in 
possession of a valid, unexpired immigrant visa, or (2) the alien was 
allowed to land in the United States, or (3) the alien was in possession 
of a valid unexpired nonimmigrant visa or other document authorizing 
such alien to apply for temporary admission to the United States or 
an unexpired reentry permit issued to him, and (A) such application 
w^as made within one hundred and twenty days of the date of issuance 
of the visa or other document, or in the case of an alien in possession 
of a reentry permit, within one hundred and twenty days of the date 
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on which the alien was last examined and admitted by the Service, or 
(B) in the event the application was made later than one hundred and 
twenty days of the date of issuance of the visa or other document or 
such examination and admission, if such person establishes to the satis-
faction of the Attorney General that the existence of such disease or 
disability could not have been detected by the exercise of due diligence 
prior to the alien's embarkation. 
(b) Any person wlio shall bring to the United States an alien (other 
than an alien crewman) afflicted with any mental defect other than 
those enumerated in subsection (a) of this section, or any physical 
defect of a nature which may affect his ability to earn a living, as 
provided in section 212 (a) (7), shall pay to the collector of customs 
of the customs district in which the place of arrival is located for each 
and every alien so afflicted, the sum of $250, unless (1) the alien was in 
possession of a valid, unexpired immigrant visa, or (2) the alien was 
allowed to land iii the United States, or (3) the alien was in possession 
of a valid unexpired nonimmigrant visa or other document authorizing 
such alien to apply for temporary admission to the United States or an 
unexpired reentry permit issued to him, and (A) such application was 
made within one hundred and twenty days of the date of issuance of 
the visa or other document, or in the case of an alien in possession of 
a reentry permit, within one hundred and twenty days of the date on 
which the alien was last examined and admitted by the Service, or (B) 
in the event the application was made later than one hundred and 
twenty days of the date of issuance of the visa or other document or 
such examination and admission, if such person establishes to the satis-
faction of the Attorney General that the existence of such disease or 
disability could not have been detected by the exercise of due diligence 
prior to the alien's embarkation. 
(c) No vessel or aircraft shall be granted clearance papers pend-
ing determination of the question of liability to the payment of any 
fine under this section, or while the fines remain unpaid, nor shall 
such fines be remitted or refunded; but clearance may be granted 
prior to the determination of such question upon the deposit of a sum 
sufficient to cover such fines or of a bond with sufficient surety to secure 
the payment thereof, approved by the collector of customs. 
(d) Nothing contained in this section shall be construed to subject 
transportation companies to a fine for bringing to ports of entry in the 
United States aliens who are entitled by law to exemption from the 
excluding provisions of section 212 (a). 
(e) As used in this section, the term "person" means the owner, 
master, agent, commanding officer, charterer, or consignee of any 
vessel or aircraft. 
UNLAWFUL BRINGING OF ALIENS INTO UNITED STATES 
SEC. 273. (a) It shall be unlawful for any person, including any 
transportation company, or the owner, master, commanding officer, 
agent, charterer, or consignee of any vessel or aircraft, to bring to the 
United States from any place outside thereof (other than from foreign 
contiguous territory) any alien who does not have an unexpired visa, 
if a visa was required under this Act or regulations issued thereunder. 
(b) If it appears to the satisfaction of the Attorney General that 
any alien has been so brought, such person, or transportation company, 
or the master, commanding officer, agent, owner, charterer, or con-
signee of any such vessel or aircraft, shall pay to the collector of 
customs of the customs district in which the port of arrival is located 
the sum of $1,000 for each alien so brought and, except in the case of 
any such alien who is admitted, or permitted to land temporarily, in 
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addition, a sum equal to that paid by such alien for his transportation 
from the initial point of departure, indicated in his ticket, to the port 
of arrival, such latter sum to be delivered by the collector of customs 
to the alien on whose account the assessment is made. No vessel or 
aircraft shall be granted clearance pending the determination of the 
liability to the payment of such sums or while such sums remain 
unpaid, except that clearance may be granted prior to the determina-
tion of such question upon the deposit of an amount sufficient to cover 
such sums, or of a bond with sufficient surety to secure the payment 
thereof approved by the collector of customs. 
(c) Such sums shall not be remitted or refunded, unless it appears 
to the satisfaction of the Attorney General that such person, and the 
owner, master, commanding officer, agent, charterer, and consignee 
of the vessel or aircraft, prior to the departure of the vessel or aircraft 
from the last port outside the United States, did not know, and could 
not have ascertained by the exercise of reasonable diligence, that the 
individual transported was an alien and that a visa was required. 
(d) The owner, charterer, agent, consignee, commanding officer, or 
master of any vessel or aircraft arriving at the United States from 
any place outside thereof who fails to detain on board or at such other 
place as may be designated by an immigration officer any alien stow-
away until such stowaway has been inspected by an immigration officer, 
or who fails to detain such stowaway on board or at such other desig-
nated place after inspection if ordered to do so by an immigration 
officer, or who fails to deport such stowaway on the vessel or aircraft 
on which he arrived or on another vessel or aircraft at the expense of 
the vessel or aircraft on which he arrived when required to do so by an 
immigration officer, shall pay to the collector of customs of the cus-
toms district in which the port of arrival is located the sum of $1,000 
for each alien stowaway, in respect of whom any such failure occurs. 
Pending final determination of liability for such fine, no such vessel 
or aircraft shall be granted clearance, except that clearance may be 
granted upon the deposit of a sum sufficient to cover such fine, or of a 
bond with sufficient surety < o secure the payment thereof approved by 
the collector of customs. 
The provisions of section 235 for detention of 
aliens for examination before special inquiry officers and the right of 
appeal provided for in section 236 shall not apply to aliens who arrive 
as stowaways and no such alien shall be permitted to land in the 
United States, except temporarily for medical treatment, or pursuant 
to such regulations as the Attorney General may prescribe for the 
ultimate departure or removal or deportation of such alien from the 
United States. 
BRINGING I N AND HARBORING CERTAIN ALIENS 
SEC. 274. (a) Any person, including the owner, operator, pilot, 
master, commanding officer, agent, or consignee of any means of trans-
portation who— 
(1) brings into or lands in the United States, by any means of 
transportation or otherwise, or attempts, by himself or through 
another, to bring into or land in the United States, by any means 
of transportation or otherwise; 
(2) knowing that he is in the United States in violation of law, 
and knowing or having reasonable grounds to believe that his 
last entry into the United States occurred less than three years 
prior thereto, transports, or moves, or attempts to transport or 
move, within the United States by means of transportation or 
otherwise, in furtherance of such violation of law; 
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(3) willfully or knowingly conceals, harbors, or shields from 
detection, or attempts to conceal, harbor, or shield from detection, 
in any place, including any building or any means of transporta-
tion ; or 
(4) willfully or knowingly encourages or induces, or attempts 
to encourage or induce, either directly or indirectly, the entry into 
the United States of— 
any alien, including an alien crewman, not duly admitted by an immi-
gration officer or not lawfully entitled to enter or reside within the 
United States under the terms of this Act or any other law relating to 
the immigration or expulsion of aliens, shall be guilty of a felony, and 
upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine not exceeding 
$2,000 or by imprisonment for a term not exceeding five years, or both, 
for each alien in respect to whom any violation of this subsection 
occurs: Provided^ however^ That for the purposes of this section, 
employment (including the usual and normal practices incident to 
employment) shall not be deemed to constitute harboring. 
(b) No officer or person shall have authority to make any arrest for 
a violation of any provision of this section except officers and employ-
ees of the Service designated by the Attorney General, either individ-
ually or as a member of a class, and all other officers whose duty it is 
to enforce criminal laws. 
ENTRY o r ALIEN AT IMPROPER TIME OR PLACE; MISREPRESENTATION AND 
CONCEALMENT OF FACTS 
SEC. 275. Any alien who (1) enters the United States at any time or 
place other than as designated hy immigration officers, or (2) eludes 
examination or inspection by immigration officers, or (3) obtains entry 
to the United States by a willfully false or misleading representation 
or the willful concealment of a material fact, shall, for the first com-
mission of any such offenses, be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon 
conviction thereof be punished by imprisonment for not more than six 
months, or by a fine of not more than $500, or by both, and for a sub-
sequent commission of any such offenses shall be guilty of a felony and 
upon conviction thereof shall be punished by imprisonment for not 
more than two years, or by a fine of not more than $1,000, or both. 
REENTRY OF DEPORTED ALIEN 
SEC. 276. Any alien who— 
(1) has been arrested and deported or excluded and deported, 
and thereafter 
(2) enters, attempts to enter, or is at any time found in, the 
United States, unless (A) prior to his reembarkation at a place 
outside the United States or his application for admission from 
foreign contiguous territory, the Attorney General has expressly 
consented to such alien's reapplying for admission; or (B) with 
respect to an alien previously excluded and deported, unless such 
alien shall establish that he was not required to obtain such advance 
consent under this or any prior Act, 
shall be guilty of a felony, and upon conviction thereof, be punished 
by imprisonment of not more than two years, or by a fine of not more 
than $1,000, or both. 
AIDING OR ASSISTING SUBVERSIVE ALIEN TO ENTER T H E UNITED STATES 
SEC. 277. Any person who knowingly aids or assists any alien 
excludable under section 212 (a) (27), (28), or (29) to enter the 
United States, or who connives or conspires with any person or per-
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sons to allow, procure, or permit any such alien to enter the United 
States, shall be guilty of a felony, and upon conviction thereof shall be 
punished by a fine of not more than $5,000 or by imprisonment for not 
more than five years, or both. 
IMPORTATION OF ALIEN FOR IMMORAL PURPOSE 
SEC. 278. The importation into the United States of any alien for 
the purpose of prostitution, or for any other immoral purpose, is 
hereby forbidden. 
Whoever shall, directly or indirectly, import, or 
attempt to import into the United States any alien for the purpose of 
prostitution or for any other immoral purpose, or shall hold or attempt 
to hold any alien for any such purpose in pursuance of such illegal 
importation, or shall keep, maintain, control, support, employ, or 
harbor in any house or other place, for the purpose of prostitution or 
for any other immoral purpose, any alien, in pursuance of such illegal 
importation, shall, in every such case, be guilty of a felony and upon 
conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not more than $5,000 
and by imprisonment for a term of not more than ten years. 
The 
trial and punishment of offenses under this section may be in any dis-
trict to or into which such alien is brought in pursuance of importation 
by the person or persons accused, or in any district in which a viola-
tion of any of the provisions of this section occurs. 
In all prosecu-
tions under this section, the testimony of a husband or wife shall be 
admissible and competent evidence against each other. 
JURISDICTION OF DISTRICT COURTS 
SEC. 279. The district courts of the United States shall have juris-
diction of all causes, civil and criminal, arising under any of the pro-
visions of this title. It shall be the duty of the United States attorney 
of the proper district to prosecute every such suit when brought by the 
United States. Notwithstanding any other law, such prosecutions or 
suits may be instituted at any place in the United States at which the 
violation may occur or at which the person charged with a violation 
under section 275 or 276 may be apprehended. 
No suit or proceeding 
for a violation of any of the provisions of this title shall be settled, com-
promised, or discontinued without the consent of the court in which 
i t is pending and any such settlement, compromise, or discontinuance 
shall be entered of record with the reasons therefor. 
COLLECTION OF PENALTIES AND EXPENSES 
SEC. 280. Notwithstanding any other provisions of this title, the 
withholding or denial of clearance of or a lien upon any vessel or air-
craft provided for in section 231, 237, 239, 243, 251, 253, 254, 255, 
256, 271, 272, or 273 of this title shall not be regarded as the sole and 
exclusive means or remedy for the enforcement of payments of any 
fine, penalty or expenses imposed or incurred under such sections, but, 
in the discretion of the Attorney General, the amount thereof may be 
recovered by civil suit, in the name of the United States, from any per-
son made liable under any of such sections. 
CHATTER 9—MISCELLANEOUS 
SCHEDULE OF FEES 
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SEC. 281. The following fees shall be charged: 
(1) For the furnishing and verification of each application for 
an immigrant visa (which shall include the furnishing and veri-
fication of the duplicate), $5; 
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(2) For the issuance of each immigrant visa, $20; 
(8) For the issuance or each extension of a reentry permit, $10; 
(4) For the tiling of each application for adjustment of status 
under sections 245 and 248, for the creation of a record of admis-
sion for permanent residence under section 249, or for suspension 
of deportation, $25: 
(5) For the issuance of each extension of stay to nonimmi-
grants, other than nonimmigrants described in section 101 (a) 
(15) (F) and, upon a basis of reciprocity, the nonimmigrants 
described in section 101 (a) (15) (A) (iii) or 101 (a) (15) (G) 
(v),$10; 
(6) For filing with the Attorney General of each petition under 
sections 204 (b), 205 (b), and 214 (c), $10; and 
(7) For approval of each application for, including issuance of 
each certificate of, admission to practice as attorney or representa-
tive before the Service, pursuant to such regulations as may be 
prescribed by the xA.ttorney General, $25. 
The fees for the furnishing and verification of applications for visas 
by nonimmigrants of each foreign country and for the issuance of 
visas to nonimmigrants of each foreign country shall be prescribed by 
the Secretary of State in amounts corresponding, as nearly as prac-
ticable, to the total of all similar visa, entry, residence, or other fees, 
taxes, or charges assessed or levied against nationals of the United 
States by the foreign countries of which such nonimmigrants are 
nationals or stateless residents: Provided^ That nonimmigrant visas 
issued to aliens coming to the United States in transit to and from the 
headquarters district of the United Nations in accordance with the 
provisions of the Headquarters Agreement shall be gratis. 
PRINTING OF REENTRY PERMITS AND BLANK FORMS OF MANIFESTS 
AND 
CREW LISTS 
SEC. 282. (a) Reentry permits issued under section 223 shall be 
printed on distinctive safety paper and shall be prepared and issued 
under regulations prescribed by the Attorney General. 
(b) The Public Printer is authorized to print for sale to the public 
by the Superintendent of Documents, upon prepayment, copies of 
blank forms of manifests and crew lists and such other forms as may 
be prescribed and authorized by the Attorney General to be sold pur-
suant to the provisions of this title. 
TRAVEL EXPENSES AND EXPENSE OF TRANSPORTING REMAINS OF OFFICERS 
AND EMPLOYEES W H O DIE OUTSIDE THE UNITED STATES 
SEC. 283. When officers, inspectors, or other employees of the 
Service are ordered to perform duties in a foreign country, or are 
transferred from one station to another, in the United States or in a 
foreign country, or while performing duties in any foreign country 
become eligible for voluntary retirement and return to the United 
States, they shall be allowed their traveling expenses in accordance 
with such regulations as the Attorney General may deem advisable, 
and they may also be allowed, within the discretion and under written 
orders of the Attorney General, the expenses incurred for the transfer 
of their wives and dependent children, their household effects and other 
personal property, including the expenses for packing, crating, freight, 
unpacking, temporary storage, and drayage thereof in accordance with 
the Act of August 2,° 1946 (60 Stat. 806; 5 U. S. C., sec. 73b-l). 
The 
expense of transporting the remains of such officers, inspectors, or 
other employees who die while in, or in transit to, a foreign country 
in the discharge of their official duties to their former homes in this 
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country for interment, and the ordinary and necessary expenses of 
such interment and of preparation for shipment, are authorized to be 
paid on the written order of the Attorney General. 
MEMBERS OF T H E ARMED FORCES 
SEC. 284. Nothing contained in this title shall be construed so as to 
limit, restrict, deny, or affect the coming into or departure from the 
United States of an alien member of the Armed Forces of the United 
States who is in the uniform of, or who bears documents identifying 
him as a member of, such Armed Forces, and who is coming to or de-
parting from the United States under official orders or permit of such 
Armed Forces: Provided, That nothing contained in this section shall 
be construed to give to or confer upon any such alien any other 
privileges, rights, benefits, exemptions, or immunties under this Act, 
which are not otherwise specifically granted by this Act. 
DISPOSAL OF PRIVILEGES AT IMMIGRANT STATIONS 
SEC. 285. (a) Subject to such conditions and limitations as the 
Attorney General shall prescribe, all exclusive privleges of exchanging 
money, transporting passengers or baggage, keeping eating houses, or 
other like privileges in connection with any United States immigrant 
station, shall be disposed of to the lowest responsible and capable bid-
der (other than an alien) in accordance with the provisions of section 
3709 of the Revised Statutes, as amended (41 U. S. C. 5), and for the 
use of Government property in connection with the exercise of such 
exclusive privileges a reasonable rental may be charged. The feeding 
of aliens, or the furnishing of any other necessary service in connec-
tion with any United States immigrant station, may be performed by 
the Service without regard to the foregoing provisions of this sub-
section if the Attorney General shall find that it would be advan-
tageous to the Government in terms of economy and efficiency. 
No 
intoxicating liquors shall be sold at any immigrant station. 
(b) Such articles determined by the Attorney General to be neces-
sary to the health and welfare of aliens detained at any immigrant sta-
tion, when not otherwise readily procurable by such aliens, may be 
sold at reasonable prices to such aliens through Government canteens 
operated by the Service, under such conditions and limitations as the 
Attorney General shall prescribe. 
(c) All rentals or other receipts accruing from the disposal of priv-
ileges, and all moneys arising from the sale of articles through Service-
operated canteens, authorized by this section, shall be covered into the 
Treasury to the credit of the appropriation for the enforcement of this 
title. 
DISPOSITION OF MONEYS COLLECTED UNDER T H E PROVISIONS OF 
THIS TITLE 
SEC 286. (a) All moneys paid into the Treasury to reimburse the 
Service for detention, transportation, hospitalization, and all other 
expenses of detained aliens paid from the appropriation for the 
enforcement of this Act, and all moneys paid into the Treasury to 
reimburse the Service for expenses of landing stations referred to in 
section 238 (c) paid by the Service from the appropriation for the 
enforcement of this Act, shall be credited to the appropriation for 
the enforcement of this Act for the fiscal year in which the expenses 
were incurred. 
(b) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (a), or in any other 
provision of this title, all moneys received in payment of fees and 
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adniiiiistrative fines and penalties under this title shall be covered 
into the Treasury as miscellaneous receipts: /^rc*y^Wer/, A<9ifeye/', That 
all fees received from applicants residing in the Virgin Islands of the 
United States, and in Guam, required to be paid under section 281, 
shall be paid over to the Treasury of the Virgin Islands and to the 
Treasury of Guam, respectively. 
POWERS OF IMMIGRATION OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES 
SEC. 287. (a) Any officer or employee of the Service authorized 
under regulations prescribed by the Attorney General shall have 
power without warrant— 
(1) to interrogate any alien or person believed to be an alien 
as to his right to be or to remain in the United States; 
(2) to arrest any alien who in his presence or view is entering 
or attempting to enter the United States in violation of any law 
or regulation made in pursuance of law regulating the admission, 
exclusion, or expulsion of aliens, or to arrest any alien in the 
United States, if he has reason to believe that the alien so arrested 
is in the United States in violation of any such law or regulation 
and is likely to escape before a warrant can be obtained for his 
arrest, but the alien arrested shall be taken without unnecessary 
delay for examination before an officer of the Service having 
authority to examine aliens as to their right to enter or remain 
in the United States; 
(3) within a reasonable distance from any external boundary 
of the United States, to board and search for aliens any vessel 
within the territorial waters of the United States and any rail-
way car, aircraft, conveyance, or vehicle, and within a distance 
of twenty-five miles from any such external boundary to have ac-
cess to private lands, but not dwellings, for the purpose of patrol-
ling the border to prevent the illegal entry of aliens into the 
United States; and 
(4) to make arrests for felonies which have been committed and 
which are cognizable under any law of the United States regulat-
ing the admission, exclusion, or expulsion of aliens, if he has 
reason to believe that the person so arrested is guilty of such 
felony and if there is likelihood of the person escaping before a 
warrant can be obtained for his arrest, but the person arrested 
shall be taken without unnecessary delay before the nearest avail-
able officer empowered to commit persons charged with offenses 
against the laws of the United States. Any such employee shall 
also have the,power to execute any warrant or other process issued 
by any officer under any law regulating the admission, exclusion, 
or expulsion of aliens. 
(b) Any officer or employee of the Service designated by the Attor-
ney General, whether individually or as one of a class, shall have 
power and authority to administer oaths and to take and consider 
evidence concerning the privilege of any person to enter, reenter, pass 
through, or reside in the United States, or concerning any matter which 
is material or relevant to the enforcement of this Act and the adminis-
tration of the Service; and any person to whom such oath has been 
administered, under the provisions of this Act, who shall knowingly 
or willfully give false evidence or swear to any false statement con-
cerning any matter referred to in this subsection shall be guilty of 
perjury and shall be punished as provided by section 1621, title 18, 
62 stat. 773. 
United States Code. 
(c) Any officer or employee of the Service authorized and desig-
nated under regulations prescribed by the Attorney General, whether 
individually or as one of a class, shall have power to conduct a search, 
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without warrant, of the person, and of the personal effects in the 
possession of any person seeking admission to the United States, con-
cerning whom such officer or employee may have reasonable cause to 
suspect that grounds exist for exclusion from the United States under 
this Act which would be disclosed by such search. 
LOCAL JURISDICTION OVER IMMIGRANT STATIONS 
SEC. 288, The officers in charge of the various immigrant stations 
shall admit therein the proper State and local officers charged with the 
enforcement of the laws of the State or Territory of the United States 
in which any such immigrant station is located in order that such 
State and local officers may preserve the peace and make arrests for 
crimes under the laws of the States and Territories. 
For the purpose 
of this section the jurisdiction of such State and local officers and of 
the State and local courts shall extend over such immigrant stations. 
AMERICAN INDIANS BORN I N CANADA 
SEC. 289. Nothing in this title shall be construed to affect the right 
of American Indians born in Canada to pass the borders of the United 
States, but such right shall extend only to persons who possess at least 
50 per centum of blood of the American Indian race. 
CENTRAL FILE ; INFORMATION FROM OTHER DEPARTMENTS AND AGENCIES 
SEC. 290. (a) There shall be established in the office of the Commis-
sioner, for the use of the security and enforcement agencies of the 
Government of the United States, a central index, which shall contain 
the names of all aliens heretofore admitted to the United States, or 
excluded therefrom, insofar as such information is available from the 
existing records of the Service, and the names of all aliens hereafter 
admitted to the United States, or excluded therefrom, the names of 
their sponsors of record, if any, and such other relevant information 
as the Attorney General shall require as an aid to the proper enforce-
ment of this Act. 
(b) Any information in any records kept by any department or 
agency of the Government as to the identity and location of aliens in 
the United States shall be made available to the Service upon request 
made by the Attorney General to the head of any such department or 
agency. 
(c) The Federal Security Administrator shall notify the Attorney 
General upon request whenever any alien is issued a social security 
account number and social security card. 
The Administrator shall 
also furnish such available information as may be requested by the 
Attorney General regarding the identity and location of aliens in the 
United States. 
(d) A written certification signed by the Attorney General or by 
any officer of the Service designated by the Attorney General to 
make such certification, that after diligent search no record or entry 
of a specified nature is found to exist in the records of the Service, 
shall be admissible as evidence in any proceeding as evidence that the 
records of the Service contain no such record or entry, and shall have 
the same eff'ect as the testimony of a witness given in open court. 
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BURDEN OF TROOF 
SEC. 291. Whenever any })erson makes application for a visa or any 
other document required for entry, or makes application for ad-
mission, or otherwise attempts to enter the United States, the burden 
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of proof shall be upon such person to establish that he is eligible to 
receive such visa or such document, or is not subject to exclusion under 
any provision of this Act, and, if an alien, that he is entitled to the 
nonimmigrant, quota immigrant, or nonquota immigrant status 
claimed, as the case may be. If such person fails to establish to the 
satisfaction of the consular officer that he is eligible to receive a visa or 
other document required for entry, no visa or other document required 
for entry shall be issued to such person, nor shall such person be 
admitted to the United States unless he establishes to the satisfaction 
of the Attorney General that he is not subject to exclusion under any 
provision of this Act. In any deportation proceeding under chapter 
5 against any person, the burden of proof shall be upon such person 
to show the time, place, and manner of his entry into the United 
States, but in presenting such proof he shall be entitled to the produc-
tion of his visa or other entry document, if any, and of any other docu-
ments and records, not considered by the Attorney General to be 
confidential, pertaining to such entry in the custody of the Service. 
If such burden of proof is not sustained, such person shall be presumed 
to be in the United States in violation of law. 
RIGHT TO CX>UNSEL 
SEC. 292. In any exclusion or deportation proceedings before a 
special inquiry officer and in any appeal proceedings before the 
Attorney General from any such exclusion or deportation proceedings, 
the person concerned shall have the privilege of being represented (at 
no expense to the Government) by such counsel, authorized to practice 
in such proceedings, as he shall choose. 
TITLE III—NATIONALITY AND NATURALIZATION 
CHAPTER 1—NATIONALITY AT BIRTH AND BY COLLECTIVE 
, 
NATURALIZATION 
NATIONALS AND CITIZENS OF THE UNITED STATES AT BIRTH 
SEC. 301. (a) The following shall be nationals and citizens of the 
United States at birth: 
(1) a person born in the United States, and subject to the 
jurisdiction thereof; 
(2) a person born in the United States to a member of an 
Indian, Eskimo, Aleutian, or other aboriginal tribe: Pro^ided^ 
That the granting of citizenship under this subsection shall not 
in any manner impair or otherwise affect the right of such person 
to tribal or other property; 
(3) a person born outside of the United States and its outlying 
possessions of parents both of whom are citizens of the United 
States and one of whom has had a residence in the United States 
or one of its outlying possessions, prior to the birth of such 
person; 
(4) a person born outside of the United States and its outlying 
possessions of parents one of whom is a citizen of the United 
States who has been physically present in the United States or 
one of its outlying possessions for a continuous period of one year 
prior to the birth of such person, and the other of whom is a 
national, but not a citizen of the United States; 
(5) a person born in an outlying possession of the United 
States of parents one of whom is a citizen of the United States who 
has been physically present in the United States or one of its 
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outlying possessions for a continuous period of one year at any 
time prior to the birth of such person; 
(6) a person of unknown parentage found in the United 
States while under the age of five years, until shown, prior to his 
attaining the age of tw^enty-one years, not to have been born in 
the United States; 
(7) a person born outside the geographical limits of the United 
States and its outlying possessions of parents one of w'hom is an 
alien, and the other a citizen of the United States who, prior to the 
birth of such person, was physically present in the United States 
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or its outlying possessions for a period or periods totaling not less 
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than ten years, at least five of which were after attaining the age 
" 
of fourteen years: Provided^ That any periods of honorable serv-
ice in the Armed Forces of the United States by such citizen parent 
may be included in computing the physical presence requirements 
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of this paragraph. 
(b) Any person who is a national and citizen of the United States 
at birth under paragraph (7) of subsection (a), shall lose his nation-
ality and citizenship unless he shall come to the United States prior to 
attaining the age of twenty-three years and shall immediately follow-
ing any such coming be continuously physically present in the United 
State for at least five years: Provided^ That such physical presence 
follows the attainment of the age of fourteen years and precedes the 
age of twenty-eight years. 
(c) Subsection (b) shall apply to a person born abroad subsequent 
to May 24, 1934: Provided^ however^ That nothing contained in this 
subsection shall be construed to alter or affect the citizenship of any 
person born abroad subsequent to May 24, 1934, who, prior to the 
effective date of this Act, has taken up a residence in the United States 
before attaining the age of sixteen years, and thereafter, whether 
before or after the effective date of this Act, complies or shall comply 
with the residence requirements for retention of citizenship specified 
in subsections (g) and (h) of section 201 of the Nationality Act of 
1940, as amended. 
54 Stat. 1138. 
8 u s e 601. 
PERSONS BORN I N PUERTO RICO ON OR AFTER APRIL 1 1 , 1 8 9 9 
SEC. 302. All persons born in Puerto Rico on or after April 11,1899, 
and prior to January 13,1941, subject to the jurisdiction of the United 
States, residing on January 13,1941, in Puerto Rico or other territory 
over which the United States exercises rights of sovereignty and not 
citizens of the United States under any other Act, are hereby declared 
to be citizens of the United States as of January 13, 1941. All persons 
born in Puerto Rico on or after Januar;y^ 13, 1941, and subject to the 
jurisdiction of the United States, are citizens of the United States 
at birth. 
PERSONS BORN IN THE CANAL ZONE OR REPUBLIC OF PANAMA ON OR AFTER 
FEBRUARY 2 6 , 1 9 0 4 
SEC. 303. (a) Any person born in the Canal Zone on or after Feb-
ruary 26, 1904, and wdiether before or after the effective date of this 
Act, whose father or mother or both at the time of the birth of such 
person was or is a citizen of the United States, is declared to be a citi-
zen of the United States. 
(b) Any person born in the Republic of Panama on or after 
February 26, 1904, and whether before or after the effective date of 
this Act, whose father or mother or both at the time of the birth of 
such person was or is a citizen of the United States employed by the 
Government of the United States or by the Panama Railroad Com-
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paiiy, or its successor in title, is declared to be a citizen of the United 
States. 
PERSONS BORN IN ALASKA ON OR AFTER MARCH 3 0, 186 7 
SEC, 304. A person born in Alaska on or after March 30, 1867, ex-
cept a noncitizen Indian, is a citizen of the United States at birth. 
A 
noncitizen Indian born in Alaska on or after March 30, 1867, and 
prior to June 2, 1924, is declared to be a citizen of the United States 
as of June 2, 1924. An Indian born in Alaska on or after June 2, 
1924, is a citizen of the United States at birth. 
PERSONS BORN IN H A W A I I 
SEC. 305. A person born in Hawaii on or after August 12,1898, and 
before April 30, 1900, is declared to be a citizen of the United States 
as of April 30, 1900. A person born in Hawaii on or after April 30, 
1900, is a citizen of the United States at birth. 
A person who was a 
citizen of the Republic of Hawaii on August 12, 1898, is declared to 
be a citizen of the United States as of April 30, 1900. 
PERSONS LIVING I N AND BORN IN T H E VIRGIN ISLANDS 
SEC. 306. (a) The following persons and their children born subse-
quent to January 17,1917, and prior to February 25,1927, are declared 
to be citizens of the United States as of February 25, 1927: 
(1) All former Danish citizens who, on January 17, 1917, resided 
in the Virgin Islands of the United States, and were residing in those 
islands or in the United States or Puerto Rico on February 25, 1927, 
and who did not make the declaration required to preserve their Danish 
citizenship by article 6 of the treaty entered into on August 4, 1916, 
between the United States and Denmark, or who, having made such a 
declaration have heretofore renounced or may hereafter renounce it by 
a declaration before a court of record; 
(2) All natives of the Virgin Islands of the United States who, 
on January 17, 1917, resided in those islands, and were residing in 
those islands or in the United States or Puerto Rico on February 25, 
1927, and who were not on February 25, 1927, citizens or subjects of 
any foreign country; 
(3) All natives of the Virgin Islands of the United States who, on 
January 17, 1917, resided in the United States, and were residing in 
those islands on February 25, 1927, and who were not on February 
25,1927, citizens or subjects of any foreign country; and 
(4) All natives of the Virgin Islands of the United States who, on 
June 28, 1932, were residing in continental United States, the Virgin 
Islands of the United States, Puerto Rico, the Canal Zone, or any 
other insular possession or territory of the United States, and who, on 
June 28, 1932, were not citizens or subjects of any foreign country, 
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regardless of their place of residence on January 17, 1917. 
(b) All persons born in the Virgin Islands of the United States on or 
after January 17, 1917, and prior to February 25, 1927, and subject to 
the jurisdiction of the United States are declared to be citizens of the 
United States as of February 25, 1927; and all persons born in those 
islands on or after February 25,1927, and subject to the jurisdiction of 
the United States, are declared to be citizens of the United States at 
birth. 
PERSONS LIVING I N AND BORN I N GUAM 
SEC. 307. (a) The following persons, and their children born after 
April 11, 1899, are declared to be citizens of the United States as of 
August 1, 1950, if they were residing on August 1, 1950, on the island 
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of Guam or other territory over which the United States exercises 
lights of sovereignty: 
(1) All inhabitants of the island of Guam on April 11, 1899, includ-
ing those temporarily absent from the island on that date, who were 
Spanish subjects, who after that date continued to reside in Guam or 
other territory over which the United States exercises sovereignty, and 
who have taken no affirmative steps to preserve or acquire foreign 
nationality; and 
(2) All persons born in the island of Guam who resided in Guam on 
April 11, 1899, including those temporarily absent from the island on 
that date, who after that date continued to reside in Guam or other 
territory over w^hich the United States exercises sovereignty, and 
who have taken no affirmative steps to preserve or acquire foreign 
nationality. 
(b) All persons born in the island of Guam on or after April 11, 
1899 (whether before or after August 1, 1950) subject to the jurisdic-
tion of the United States, are hereby declared to be citizens of the 
United States: Provided^ That in the case of any person born before 
August 1,1950, he has taken no affirmative steps to preserve or acquire 
foreign nationality. 
(c) Any person hereinl3efore described who is a citizen or national of 
a country other than the United States and desires to retain his present 
political status shall have made, prior to August 1, 1952, a declaration 
under oath of such desire, said declaration to be in form and executed 
in the manner prescribed by regulations. From and after the making 
of such a declaration any such person shall be held not to be a national 
of the United States by virtue of this Act. 
NATIONALS BUT NOT CITIZENS OF T H E UNITED STATES AT BIRTH 
SEC. 308. Unless otherwise provided in section 301 of this title, the 
following shall be nationals, but not citizens, of the United States at 
birth: 
(1) A person born in an outlying possession of the United States 
on or after the date of formal acquisition of such possession; 
(2) A person born outside the United States and its outlying pos-
sessions of parents both of whom are nationals, but not citizens, of 
the United States, and have had a residence in the United States, or 
one of its outlying possessions prior to the birth of such person; and 
(3) A person of unknown parentage found in an outlying possession 
of the United States while under the age of five years, until shown, 
prior to his attaining the age of twenty-one years, not to have been 
born in such outlying possession. 
CHILDREN BORN OUT OF WEDLOCK 
SEC. 309. (a) The provisions of paragraphs (3), (4), (5), and (7) 
of section 301 (a), and of paragraph (2) of section 308, of this title 
shall apply as of the date of birth to a child born out of wedlock on 
or after the effective date of this Act, if the paternity of such child is 
established while such child is under the age of twenty-one years by 
legitimation. 
(b) Except as otherwise provided in section 405, the provisions of 
section 301 (a) (7) shall apply to a child born out of wedlock on or 
after January 13,1941, and prior to the effective date of this Act, as of 
the date of birth, if the paternity of such child is established before 
or after the effective date of this Act and while such child is under 
the age of twenty-one years by legitimation. 
(c) Notwithstanding the provision of subsection (a) of this section, 
a person born, on or after the effective date of this Act, outside the 
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United States and ont of wedlock shall be held to have acquired at 
birth the nationality status of his mother, if the mother had the na-
tionality of the United States at the time of such person's birth, and 
if the mother had previously been ])hysically present in the United 
States or one of its outlying possessions for a continuous period of 
one year. 
CHAPTER 2—NATIONALITY THROUGH NATLRALIZATION 
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JURISDICTION TO NATURALIZE 
SEC. 310. (a) Exclusive jurisdiction to naturalize persons as citizens 
of the United States is hereby conferred upon the following specified 
courts: District courts of the United States now existing, or which 
may hereafter be established by Congress in any State, District Courts 
of the United States for the Territories of Hawaii and Alaska, and 
for the District of Columbia and for Puerto Rico, the District Court 
of the Virgin Islands of the United States, and the District Court of 
Guam; also all courts of record in any State or Territory now exist-
ing, or which may hereafter be created, having a seal, a clerk, and 
jurisdiction in actions at law or equity, or law and equity, in which 
the amount in controversy is unlimited. The jurisdiction of all the 
courts herein specified to naturalize persons shall extend only to such 
persons resident within the respective jurisdiction of such courts, 
except as otherwise specifically provided in this title. 
(b) A person who petitions for naturalization in any State court 
having naturalization jurisdiction may petition within the State 
judicial district or State judicial circuit in which he resides, whether or 
not he resides within the county in which the petition for naturaliza-
tion is filed. 
(c) The courts herein specified, upon request of the clerks of such 
courts, shall be furnished from time to time by the Attorney General 
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with such blank forms as may be required in naturalization proceed-
ings. 
(d) A person may be naturalized as a citizen of the United States in 
the manner and under the conditions prescribed in this title, and not 
otherwise. 
ELIGIBILITY FOR NATURALIZATION 
SEC. 311. The right of a person to become a naturalized citizen of 
the United States shall not be denied or abridged because of race or 
sex or because such person is married. Notwithstanding section 405 
(b), this section shall apply to any person whose petition for natural-
ization shall hereafter be filed, or shall have been pending on the 
effective date of this Act. 
REQUIREMKNTS AS TO UNDERSTANDING T H E ENGLISH LANGUAGE, HISTORY, 
PRINCIPLES, AND FORM OF GOVERNMENT OF T H E UNITED STATES 
SEC. 312. No person except as otherwise provided in this title shall 
hereafter be naturalized as a citizen of the United States upon his own 
petition who cannot demonstrate— 
(1) an understanding of the English language, including an 
ability to read, write, and speak words in ordinary usage in the 
English language: Provided^ That this requirement shall not 
apply to any person physically unable to comply therewith, if 
otherwise qualified to be naturalized, or to any person who, on the 
effective date of this Act, is over fifty years of age and has been liv-
ing in the United States for periods totaling at least twenty years: 
Provided fv/rther^ That the requirements of this section relating 
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to ability to read and write shall be met if the applicant can read 
or write simple words and phrases to the end that a reasonable 
test of his literacy shall be made and that no extraordinary or 
1 
unreasonable condition shall be imposed upon the applicant; and 
(2) a knowledge and understanding of the fundamentals of the 
history, and of the principles and form of government, of the 
United States. 
PROHIBITION 
UPON 
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NATURALIZATION 
OF 
PERSONS 
OPPOSED 
TO 
GOVERNMENT 
OR 
LAW, 
OR 
W H O 
FAVOR 
TOTALITARIAN 
FORMS 
OF 
GOVERNMENT 
SEC. 313. (a) Notwithstanding the provisions of section 405 (b), no 
person shall hereafter be naturalized as a citizen of the United States— 
(1) who advocates or teaches, or who is a member of or affiliated 
with any organization that advocates or teaches, opposition to all 
organized government; or 
(2) who is a member of or affiliated with (A) the Communist 
Party of the United States; (B) any other totalitarian party of 
the United States; (C) the Communist Political Association; 
(D) the Communist or other totalitarian party or any State of 
the United States, of any foreign state, or of any political or 
geographical subdivision of any foreign state; (E) any section, 
subsidiary, branch, affiliate, or subdivision of any such association 
or party; (F) the direct predecessors or successors of any such 
association or party, regardless of what name such group or 
organization may have used, may now bear, or may hereafter 
adopt; (G) who, regardless of whether he is within any of the 
other provisions of this section, is a member of or affiliated with 
any Communist-action organization during the time it is regis-
tered or required to be registered under the provisions of section 
50 use 786' 
^ °^ *^^ Subversive Activities Control Act of 1950; or (H) who, 
regardless of whether he is within any of the other provisions 
of this section, is a member of or affiliated with any Communist-
front organization during the time it is registered or required to 
be registered under section 7 of the Subversive Activities Control 
Act of 1950, unless such alien establishes that he did not have 
knowledge or reason to believe at the time he became a member 
of or affiliated with such an organization (and did not thereafter 
and prior to the date upon which such organization was so regis-
tered or so required to be registered have such knowledge or 
reason to believe) that such organization was a Communist-front 
organization; or 
(3) who, although not within any of the other provisions of 
this section, advocates the economic, international, and govern-
mental doctrines of world communism or the establishment in 
the United States of a totalitarian dictatorship, or who is a 
member of or affiliated with any organization that advocates the 
economic, international, and governmental doctrines of world 
communism or the establishment in the United States of a totali-
tarian dictatorship, either through its own utterances or through 
any written or printed publications issued or published by or 
with the permission or consent of or under authority of such 
organization or paid for by the funds ^f such organization; or 
(4) who advocates or teaches or who is a member of or affili-
ated with any organization that advocates or teaches (A) the 
overthrow by force or violence or other unconstitutional means 
of the Government of the United States or of all forms of law; 
or (B) the duty, necessity, or propriety of the unlawful assault-
ing or killing of any officer or officers (either of specific individ-
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uuls or of officers generally) of the Government of the United 
States or of any other orjj^anized government because of his or 
their official character; or (C) the unlawful damage, injury, or 
destruction of property; or (D) sabotage; or 
(5) who writes or publishes or causes to be written or pub-
, , 
lished, or who knowingly circulates, distributes, prints, or dis-
plays, or knowingly causes to be circulated, distributed, printed, 
published, or displayed, or who knowingly has in his possession 
: 
for the purpose of circulation, publication, distribution, or dis-
play, any written or printed matter, advocating or teaching 
opposition to all organized government, or advocating (A) the 
overthrow by force, violence, or other unconstitutional means of 
the Government of the United States or of all forms of law^; or 
(B) the duty, necessity, or propriety of the unlawful assaulting 
or killing of any officer or officers (either of specific individuals 
or of officers generally) of the Government of the United States 
or of any other organized government, because of his or their 
official character; or (C) the unlawful damage, injury, or destruc-
tion of property; or (D) sabotage; or (E) the economic, inter-
national, and governmental doctrines of world communism or 
the establishment in the United States of a totalitarian dictator-
ship ; or 
(6) who is a member of or affiliated with any organization 
that writes, circulates, distributes, prints, publishes, or displays, 
or causes to be w^ritten, circulated, distributed, printed, published, 
or displayed, or that has in its possession for the purpose of 
circulation, distribution, publication, issue, or display, any writ- 
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ten or printed matter of the character described in subpara-
graph (5). 
(b) The provisions of this section or of any other section of this 
Act shall not be construed as declaring that any of the organizations 
referred to in this section or in any other section of this Act do not 
advocate the overthrow of the Government of the United States by 
force, violence, or other unconstitutional means. 
(c) The provisions of this section shall be applicable to any appli- 
Applicability, 
cant for naturalization who at any time within a period of ten years 
immediately preceding the filing of the petition for naturalization 
or after such filing and before taking the final oath of citizenship is, 
or has been found to be within any of the classes enumerated within 
this section, notwithstanding that at the time the petition is filed he 
may not be included within such classes. 
, ,, 
(d) Any person who is within any of the classes described in sub-
section (a) solely because of past membership in, or past affiliation 
with, a party or organization may be naturalized without regard to 
the provisions of subsection (c) if such person establishes that such 
membership or affiliation is or was involuntary, or occurred and 
terminated prior to the attainment by such alien of the age of sixteen 
years, or that such membership or affiliation is or was by operation of 
law, or was for purposes of obtaining employment, food rations, or 
other essentials of living and where necessary for such purposes. 
JNEI^lGIHILl'l'Y TO NATURALIZATION OF DESERTORS FROM THE ARMED 
FORCES OF T H E UNITED STATES 
SEC. 314. A person who, at any time during which the United States 
has been or shall be at war, deserted or shall desert the military, air, or 
naval forces of the United States, or who, having been duly enrolled, 
departed, or shall depart from the jurisdiction of the district in w^hich 
enrolled, or who, whether or not having been duly enrolled, went or 
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shall go beyond the limits of the United States, with intent to avoid 
any draft into the military, air, or naval service, lawfully ordered, 
shall, upon conviction thereof by a court martial or a court of compe-
tent jurisdiction, be permanently ineligible to become a citizen of the 
United States; and such deserters and evaders shall be forever in-
capable of holding any office of trust or of profit under the United 
States, or of exercising any rights of citizens thereof. 
ALIEN RELIEVi:D FROM TRAINING AND SERVICE I N THE ARMED FORCES OF THE 
UNITED STATES BECAUSE OF ALIENAGE BARRED FROM CITIZENSHIP 
SEC. 315. (a) Notwithstanding the provisions of section 405 (b), 
any alien who applies or has applied for exemption or discharge from 
training or service in the Armed Forces or in the National Security 
Training Corps of the United States on the ground that he is an alien, 
and is or was relieved or discharged from such training or service on 
such ground, shall be permanently ineligible to become a citizen of 
the United States. 
(b) The records of the Selective Service System or of the National 
Military Establishment shall be conclusive as to whether an alien was 
relieved or discharged from such liability for training or service be-
cause he was an alien. 
Residence. 
Absences. 
REQUIREMENTS AS TO RESIDENCE, GOOD MORAL CHARACTER, ATTACHMENT TO 
T H E PRINCIPLES OF THE CONSTITUTION, AND FAVORABLE DISPOSITION TO 
THE UNITED STATES 
SEC 816. (a) No person, except as otherwise provided in this title, 
shall be naturalized unless such petitioner, (1) immediately preceding 
the date of filing his petition for naturalization has resided continu-
ously, after being lawfully admitted for permanent residence, within 
the United States for at least five years and during the five years 
immediatelj'^ preceding the date of filing his petition has been physically 
present therein for periods totaling at least half of that time, and 
who has resided within the State in which the petitioner filed the peti-
tion for at least six months, (2) has resided continuously within the 
United States from the date of the petition up to the time of admission 
to citizenship, and (3) during all the periods referred to in this subsec-
tion has been and still is a person of good moral character, attached 
to the principles of the Constitution of the United States, and well 
disposed to the good order and happiness of the United States. 
(b) Absence from the United States of more than six months but less 
than one year during the period for which continuous residence is 
required for admission to citizenship, immediately preceding the date 
of filing the petition for naturalization, or during the period between 
the date of filing the petition and the date of final hearing, shall break 
the continuity of such residence, unless the petitioner shall establish 
to the satisfaction of the court that he did not in fact abandon his 
residence in the United States during such period. 
Absence from the United States for a continuous period of one year 
or more during the period for which continuous residence is required 
for admission to citizenship (whether preceding or subsequent to the 
filing of the petition for naturalization) shall break the continuity 
of such residence, except that in the case of a person who has been 
])hysically present and residing in the United States, after being law-
fully admitted for ])ernianent residence, for an uninterrupted period of 
at least one year, and who thereafter is employed by or under contract 
with the Government of the ITnited States or an American institution 
of research recognized as such by the Attorney General, or is employed 
by an American firm or corporation engaged in whole or in part in the 
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development of foreign trade and commerce of the United States, or a 
subsidiary thereof more than 50 per centum of whose stock is owned 
by an American firm or corporation, or is employed by a public inter-
national organization of which the United States is a member by 
treaty or statute and by which the alien was not employed until after 
being lawfully admitted for permanent residence, no period of absence 
from the United States shall break the continuity of residence if— 
(1) prior to the beginning of such period of employment 
(whether such period begins before or after his departure from the 
United States), but prior to the expiration of one year of continu-
ous absence from the United States, the person has established to 
the satisfaction of the Attorney General that his absence from 
s 
the United States for such period is to be on behalf of such Gov-
ernment, or for the purpose of carrying on scientific research 
on behalf of such institution, or to be engaged in the development 
of such foreign trade and commerce or whose residence abroad 
is necessary to the protection of the property rights in such coun-
tries of such firm or corporation, or to be employed by a public 
international organization of which the United States is a mem-
ber by treaty or statute and by which the alien was not employed 
until after being lawfully admitted for permanent residence; 
and 
(2) such person proves to the satisfaction of the court that his 
absence from the United States for such period has been for such 
purpose. 
(c) The granting of the benefits of subsection (b) of this section 
shall not relieve the petitioner from the requirement of physical 
jjresence within the United States for the period specified in subsec-
tion (a) of this section, except in the case of those persons who are 
employed by, or under contract with, the Government of the United 
States. 
In the case of a person employed by or under contract with 
Central Intelligence Agency, the requirement in subsection (b) of an 
uninterrupted period of at least one year of physical presence in the 
United States may be complied with by such person at any time prior 
to filing a petition for naturalization. 
(d) No finding by the Attorney General that the petitioner is not 
deportable shall be accepted as conclusive evidence of good moral 
character. 
(e) In determining whether the petitioner has sustained the burden 
of establishing good moral character and the other qualifications for 
citizenship specified in subsection (a) of this section, the court shall 
not be limited to the petitioner's conduct during the five years pre-
ceding the filing of the petition, but may take into consideration as a 
basis for such determination the petitioner's conduct and acts at any 
time prior to that period. 
(f) Naturalization shall not be granted to a petitioner by a naturali-
zation court while registration proceedings or proceedings to require 
registration against an organization of which the petitioner is a mem-
ber or affiliate are pending under section 13 or 14 of the Subversive 
Activities Control Act of 1950. 
Physical pre s-
ence requirements. 
Moral character. 
Restriction. 
64 Stat, 998. 
50 u s e 792, 793. 
TEMPORARY ABSENCE OF PERSONS PERFORMING RELIGIOUS DUTIES 
SEC. 317. Any person who is authorized to perform the ministerial 
or priestly functions of a religious denomination having a bona fide 
organization within the United States, or any person who is engaged 
solely by a religious denomination or by an interdenominational mis-
sion organization having a bona fide organization within the United 
States as a missionary, brother, nuri, or sister, who (1) has been law-
fully admitted to the United States for permanent residence, (2) has 
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at any time thereafter and before filing a petition for naturalization 
been physically present and residing within the United States for an 
uninterrupted period of at least one year, and (3) has heretofore been 
or may hereafter be absent temporarily from the United States in con-
nection with or for the purpose of performing the ministerial or 
priestly functions of such religious denomination, or serving as a 
missionary, brother, nun, or sister, shall be considered as being physi-
cally present and residing in the United States for the purpose of 
naturalization within the meaning of section 316 (a), notwithstanding 
any such absence from the United States, if he shall in all other re-
spects comply with the requirements of the naturalization law'. Such 
person shall prove to the satisfaction of the Attorney General and the 
naturalization court that his absence from the United States has been 
solely for the purpose of performing the ministerial or priestly func-
tions of such religious denomination, or of serving as a missionary, 
brother, nun, or sister. 
PREREQUISITE TO NATURALIZATION ; BURDEN OF PROOF 
SEC. 318. Except as otherwise provided in this title, no person shall 
be naturalized unless he has been lawfully admitted to the United 
States for permanent residence in accordance with all applicable pro-
visions of this Act. The burden of proof shall be upon such person to 
show that he entered the United States lawfully, and the time, place, 
and manner of such entry into the United States, but in presenting 
; 
such proof he shall be entitled to the production of his immigrant visa, 
if any, or of other entry document, if any, and of any other documents 
and records, not considered by the Attorney General to be confiden-
tial, pertaining to such entry, in the custody of the Service. Notwith-
standing the provisions of section 405 (b), and except as provided 
in sections 327 and 328 no person shall be naturalized against wdiom 
there is outstanding a final finding of deportability pursuant to a 
warrant of arrest issued under the provisions of this or any other 
Act; and no petition for naturalization shall be finally heard by a 
naturalization court if there is pending against the petitioner a depor-
tation proceeding pursuant to a warrant of arrest issued under the 
provisions of this or any other Act: Provided^ That the findings of 
the Attorney General in terminating deportation proceedings or in 
suspending the deportation of an alien pursuant to the provisions 
of this Act, shall not be deemed binding in any way upon the natural-
ization court with respect to the question of whether such person has 
established his eligibility for naturalization as required by this title. 
• •• f i : , r 
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M A R R I E D P E R S O N S 
; 
SEC. 319. (a) Any person whose spouse is a citizen of the United 
States may be naturalized upon compliance with all the requirements 
of this title except the provisions of paragraph (1) of section 316 (a) 
, 
if such person immediately preceding the date of filing his petition for 
' 
naturalization has resided continuously, after being lawfully admitted 
for permanent residence, within the United States for at least three 
years, and during the three years immediately preceding the date of 
filing his petition has been living in marital union with the citizen 
spouse, who has been a United States citizen during all of such 
period, and has been physically present in the United States for 
periods totaling at least half of that time and has resided within the 
State in which he filed his petition for at least six months. 
(b) Any person, (1) whose spouse is (A) a citizen of the United 
States, (B) in the employment of the Government of the United 
States, or of an American institution of research recognized as such 
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by the Attorney (jeneial, or of an American firm or corporation 
engaged in whole or in part in the development of foreign trade and 
commerce of the United States, or a subsidiary thereof, or of a public 
international organization in which the United States participates 
by treaty or statute, and (C) regularly stationed abroad in such 
employment, and (2) w^ho is in the United States at the time of 
naturalization, and (3) who declares before the naturalization court 
in good faith an intention to take up residence within the United 
States immediately upon the termination of such employment abroad 
of the citizen spouse, may be naturalized upon compliance with all 
the requirements of the naturalization laws, except that no prior 
residence or specified period of physical presence within the United 
States or within the jurisdiction of the naturalization court or proof 
thereof shall be required. 
CHILD BORN OUTSIDE OF UNITED STATES OF ONE ALIEN AND ONE CITIZEN 
PARENT AT TIME OF B I R T H ; CONDITIONS UNDER W H I C H CITIZENSHIP 
AUTOMATICALLY ACQUIRED 
SEC. 320. (a) A child born outside of the United States, one of whose 
parents at the time of the child's birth was an alien and the other of 
whose parents then was and never thereafter ceased to be a citizen of 
the United States, shall, if such alien parent is naturalized, become a 
citizen of the United States, when— 
(1) such naturalization takes place while such child is under 
the age of sixteen years; and 
(2) such child is residing in the United States pursuant to a 
lawful admission for permanent residence at the time of natural-
ization or thereafter and begins to reside permanently in the 
United States while under the age of sixteen years. 
(b) Subsection (a) of this section shall not apply to an adopted 
child. 
CHILD BORN OUTSIDE OF UNITED STATES OF ALIEN P A R E N T ; CONDITIONS 
UNDER W H I C H CITIZENSHIP AUTOMATICALLY ACQUIRED 
SEC, 321. (a) A child born outside of the United States of alien 
parents, or of an alien parent and a citizen parent who has subse-
quently lost citizenship of the United States, becomes a citizen of the 
United States upon fulfillment of the following conditions: 
(1) The naturalization of both parents; or 
(2) The naturalization of the surviving parent if one of the parents 
is deceased; or 
(3) The naturalization of the parent having legal custody of the 
child when there has been a legal separation of the parents or the 
naturalization of the mother if the child w^as born out of wedlock and 
the paternity of the child has not been established by legitimation; 
and if 
(4) Such naturalization takes place while such child is under the age 
of sixteen years; and 
(5) Such child is residing in the United States pursuant to a lawful 
admission for permanent residence at the time of the naturalization of 
the parent last naturalized under clause (1) of this subsection, or the 
parent naturalized under clause (2) or (3) of this subsection, or there-
after begins to reside permanently in the United States while under 
the age of sixteen years. 
(b) Subsection (a) of this section shall not apply to an adopted 
child. 
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CHILD BORN OUTSIDE OF UNITED STATES ; NATURALIZATION ON PETITION OF 
CITIZEN P A R E N T ; REQUIREMENTS AND EXEMPTIONS 
SEC. 822. (a) A child born outside of the United States, one or both 
of whose parents is at the time of petitioning for the naturalization of 
the child, a citizen of the United States, either by birth or naturaliza-
tion, may be naturalized if under the age of eighteen years and not 
otherwise disqualified from becoming a citizen by reason of section 
813, 814, 315, or 818 of this Act, and if residing permanently in the 
Ignited States, with the citizen parent, pursuant to a lawful admission 
for permanent residence, on the petition of such citizen parent, upon 
compliance with all the provisions of this title, except that no par-
ticular period of residence or physical presence in the United States 
shall be required. If the child is of tender years he may be presumed 
to be of good moral character, attached to the principles of the Con-
stitution, and well disposed to the good order and happiness of the 
United States. 
(b) Subsection (a) of this section shall not apply to an adopted 
child. 
CHILDREN ADOI'TED BY UNITED STATES CITIZENS 
SEC. 828. (a) An adopted child may, if not otherwise disqualified 
from becoming a citizen by reason of section 813, 314, 315, or 818 of 
this Act, be naturalized before reaching the age of eighteen years upon 
the petition of the adoptive parent or parents, upon compliance with 
all the provisions of this title, if the adoptive parent or parents are 
citizens of the United States, and the child— 
(1) was lawfully admitted to the United States for permanent 
residence; 
(2) was adopted before attaining the age of sixteen years; and 
(3) subsequent to such adoption has resided continuously in 
the United States in legal custody of the adoptive parent or 
parents for two years prior to the date of filing such petition. 
(b) In lieu of the residence and physical presence requirements of 
section 816 (a) of this Act such child shall be required to establish 
only two years' residence and one year's physical presence in the 
ITnited States during the two-year period immediately preceding the 
filing of the petition. If the child is of tender years he may be pre-
sumed to be of good moral character, attached to the principles of the 
Constitution, and well disposed to the good order and happiness of 
the United States. 
FORMER CITIZENS OF UNITED STATES REGAINING UNITED STATES 
CITIZENSHIP 
SEC. 824. (a) Any person formerly a citizen of the United States 
who (1) prior to September 22, 1922, lost United States citizenship 
by marriage to an alien, or by the loss of United States citizenship of 
such person's spouse, or (2) on or after September 22,1922, lost United 
States citizenship by marriage to an alien ineligible to citizenship, 
may if no other nationality was acquired by an affirmative act of such 
person other than by marriage be naturalized upon compliance with 
all requirements of this title, except— 
(1) no period of residence or specified period of physical pres-
ence within the United States or within the State where the 
petition is filed shall be required; 
(2) the petition need not set forth that it is the intention of the 
petitioner to reside permanently within the United States; 
(8) the petition may be filed in any court having naturaliza-
tion jurisdiction, regardless of the residence of the petitioner; 
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(4) the petition may be heard at any time after filing if there 
is attached to the petition at the time of filing a certificate from a 
naturalization examiner stating that the petitioner and the wit-
nesses have appeared before such examiner for examination. 
Such person, or any person who was naturalized in accordance with 
the provisions of section 317 (a) of the Nationality Act of 1940, shall 
have, from and after her naturalization, the status of a native-born or 
naturalized citizen of the United States, whichever status existed in 
the case of such person prior to the loss of citizenship: Provided^ 
That nothing contained herein or in any other provision of law shall 
be construed as conferring United States citizenship retroactively 
upon such person, or upon any person who was naturalized in accord-
ance with the provisions of section 317 (a) of the Nationality Act of 
1940, during any period in which such person was not a citizen. 
(b) No person who is otherwise eligible for naturalization in accord-
ance with the provisions of subsection (a) of this section shall be 
naturalized unless such person shall establish to the satisfaction of the 
naturalization court that she has been a person of good moral charac-
ter, attached to the principles of the Constitution of the United States, 
and well disposed to the good order and happiness of the United 
States for a period of not less than five years immediately preceding 
the date of filing a petition for naturalization and up to the time 
of admission to citizenship, and, unless she has resided continuously 
in the United States since the date of her marriage, has been lawfully 
admitted for permanent residence prior to filing her petition for 
naturalization. 
(c) (1) A woman who was a citizen of the United States at birth 
and (A) who has or is believed to have lost her United States citizen-
ship solely by reason of her marriage prior to September 22,1922, to an 
alien, or by her marriage on or after such date to an alien ineligible 
to citizenship, (B) whose marriage to such alien shall have terminated 
subsequent to January 12, 1941, and (C) who has not acquired by an 
affirmative act other than by marriage any other nationality, shall, 
from and after taking the oath of allegiance required by section 337 
of this title, be a citizen of the United States and have the status of a 
citizen of the United States by birth, without filing a petition for 
naturalization, and notwithstanding any of the other provisions of this 
title except the provisions of section 313: Provided^ That nothing 
contained herein or in any other provision of law shall be construed as 
conferring United States citizenship retroactively upon such person, 
or upon any pei"Son who was naturalized in accordance with the 
provisions of section 317 (b) of the Nationality Act of 1940, during 
any period in which such person was not a citizen. 
(2) Such oath of allegiance may be taken abroad before a diplo-
matic or consular officer of the United States, or in the United States 
before the judge or clerk of a naturalization court. 
(3) Such oath of allegiance shall be entered in the records of the 
appropriate embassy, legation, consulate, or naturalization court, and, 
u])on demand, a certified copy of the proceedings, including a copy 
of the oath administered, under the seal of the embassy, legation, 
consulate, or naturalization court, shall be delivered to such woman at 
a cost not exceeding $5, which certified copy shall be evidence of the 
facts stated therein before any court of record or judicial tribunal and 
in any department or agency of the Government of the United States. 
54 Stat, 1146. 
8 u s e 717. 
A d d i t i o nal re-
quirements. 
O a t h of a l l e -
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NATIONALS BUT NOT CITIZENS OF T H E UNITED STATES; RESIDENCE 
W I T H I N OUTLYING POSSESSIONS 
SEC. 325. A person not a citizen who owes permanent allegiance to 
the United States, and who is otherwise qualified, may, if he becomes 
a resident of any State, be naturalized upon compliance with the ap-
j 
plicable requirements of this title, except that in petitions for natural-
ization filed under the provisions of this section residence and physical 
presence within the United States within the meaning of this title shall 
include residence and physical presence within any of the outlying 
possessions of the United States. 
RESIDENT P H I L I P P I N E CITIZENS EXCEPTED FROM CERTAIN REQUIREMENTS 
SEC. 326. Any person who (1) was a citizen of the Commonwealth 
of the Philippines on July 2,1946, (2) entered the United States prior 
to May 1, 1934, and (3) has, since such entry, resided continuously in 
the United States shall be regarded as having been lawfully admitted 
to the United States for permanent residence for the purpose of pe-
titioning for naturalization under this title. 
FORMER UNITED STATES CITIZENS LOSING CITIZENSHIP BY ENTERING T H E 
ARMED FORCES OF FOREIGN COUNTRIES DURING WORLD WAR I I 
SEC. 327. (a) Any person who, (1) during World War I I and 
while a citizen of the United States, served in the military, air, or 
naval forces of any country at war with a country with which the 
United States was at war after December 7, 1941, and before Septem-
ber 2, 1945, and (2) has lost United States citizenship by reason of 
entering or serving in such forces, or taking an oath or obligation for 
the purpose of entering such forces, may, upon compliance with all 
the provisions of title I I I of this Act, except section 316 (a), and ex-
cept as otherwise provided in subsection (b), be naturalized by taking 
before any naturalization court specified in section 310 (a) of this 
title the oath required by section 337 of this title. 
Certified copies 
of such oath shall be sent by such court to the Department of State 
and to the Department of Justice. 
(b) No person shall be naturalized under subsection (a) of this 
section unless he— 
(1) is, and has been for a period of at least five years immedi-
ately preceding taking the oath required in subsection (a), a 
person of good moral character, attached to the principles of the 
. 
Constitution of the United States and well disposed to the good 
order and happiness of the United States; and 
(2) has been lawfully admitted to the United States for 
permanent residence and intends to reside permanently in the 
United States. 
(c) Any person naturalized in accordance with the provisions of 
this section, or any person who was naturalized in accordance with 
l^xMc^723.^^' the provisions of section 323 of the Nationality Act of 1940, shall have, 
from and after such naturalization, the status of a native-born, or 
naturalized, citizen of the United States, whichever status existed in 
the case of such person prior to the loss of citizenship: Provided, That 
nothing contained herein, or in any other provision of law, shall be 
construed as conferring United States citizenship retroactively upon 
any such person during any period in which such person was not a 
citizen. 
(d) For the purposes of this section, World War I I shall be deemed 
to have begun on September 1, 1939, and to have terminated on Sep-
tember 2, 1945. 
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(e) This section shall not apply to any person who during World ^^^onappiicabu-
War I I served in the armed forces of a country while such country was 
at war with the United States. 
NATURALIZATION THROUGH SERVICE I N T H E ARMED rOKCES 
o r T H E UNITED STATES 
Si^.c. 328. (a) A person who has served honorably at any time in the 
armed forces of the United States for a period or periods aggregating 
three years, and who, if separated from such service, was never sepa-
rated except under honorable conditions, may be naturalized without 
having resided, continuously immediately preceding the date of filing 
such person's petition, in the United States for at least five years, and 
in the State in which the petition for naturalization is filed for at least 
six months, and without having been physically present in the United 
States for any specified period, if such petition is filed while the peti-
tioner is still in the service or within six months after the termination 
of such service. 
(b) A person filing a petition under subsection (a) of this section 
shall comply in all other respects with the requirements of this title, 
except that— 
(1) no residence within the jurisdiction of the court shall be 
required; 
(2) notwithstanding section 336 (c), such petitioner may be 
naturalized immediately if the petitioner be then actually in the 
Armed Forces of the United States, and if prior to the filing of the 
petition, the petitioner and the witnesses shall have appeared 
before and been examined by a representative of the Service; 
(3) the petitioner shall furnish to the Attorney General, prior 
to the final hearing upon his petition, a certified statement from 
the proper executive department for each period of his service 
upon which he relies for the benefits of this section, clearly 
showing that such service was honorable and that no discharges 
from service, including periods of service not relied upon by him 
for the benefits of this section, w^ere other than honorable. The 
certificate or certificates herein provided for shall be conclusive 
evidence of such service and discharge. 
(c) In the case such petitioner's service was not contiimous, the peti-
tioner's residence in the United States and State, good moral character, 
attachment to the principles of the Constitution of the United States, 
and favorable disposition toward the good order and happiness of the 
United States, during any period within five years immediately pre-
ceding the date of filing such petition between the periods of peti-
tioner's service in the Armed Forces, shall be alleged in the petition 
filed under the provisions of subsection (a) of this section, and proved 
at the final hearing thereon. Such allegation and proof shall also be 
made as to any period between the termination of petitioner's service 
and the filing of the petition for naturalization. 
(d) The petitioner shall comply with the requirements of section 
316 (a) of this title, if the termination of such service has been more 
than six months preceding the date of filing the petition for naturaliza-
tion, except that such service within five years immediately preceding 
the date of filing such petition shall be considered as residence and 
physical presence within the United States. 
(e) Any such period or periods of service under honorable condi-
tions, and good moral character, attachment to the principles of the 
Constitution of the United States, and favorable disposition toward 
the good order and happiness of the United States, during such service, 
shall be proved by duly authenticated copies of the records of the 
executive departments having custody of the records of such service, 
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and such authenticated copies of records shall be accepted in lieu of 
compliance with the provisions of section 316 (a). 
NATITKALIZATION THROUGH ACTIVE-DUTY SERVICE I N T H E ARMED FORCES 
DURING WORLD WAR I OR WORLD WAR II 
SEC. 329. (a) Any person who, while an alien or a noncitizen national 
of the United States, has served honorably in an active-duty status in 
the military, air, or naval forces of the United States during either 
World War I or during a period beginning September 1, 1939, and 
ending December 31, 1946, and who, if separated from such service, 
was separated under honorable conditions, may be naturalized as 
provided in this section if (1) at the time of enlistment or induction 
such person shall have been in the United States, the Canal Zone, 
American Samoa, or Swains Island, whether or not he has been law-
fully admitted to the United States for permanent residence, or (2) at 
any time subsequent to enlistment or induction such person shall have 
been lawfully admitted to the United States for permanent residence. 
The executive department under which such person served shall deter-
mine whether persons have served honorably in an active-duty status, 
and whether separation from such service was under honorable condi-
tions : Provided, hoicever, That no person who is or has been separ-
ated from such service on account of alienage, or who was a con-
scientious objector who performed no military, air, or naval duty 
whatever or refused to wear the uniform, shall be regarded as having 
served honorably or having been separated under honorable conditions 
for the purposes of this section. No period of service in the Armed 
Forces shall be made the basis of a petition for naturalization under 
this section if the applicant has previously been naturalized on the basis 
of the same period of service. 
(b) A person filing a petition under subsection (a) of this section 
shall comply in all other respects with the requirements of this title, 
except that— 
(1) he may be naturalized regardless of age, and notwithstand-
ing the provisions of section 331 of this title; 
(2) no period of residence or specified period of physical 
presence within the United States or any State shall be required; 
(3) the petition for naturalization may be filed in any court 
having naturalization jurisdiction regardless of the residence of 
the petitioner; 
(4) service in the military, air, or naval forces of the United 
States shall be proved by a duly authenticated certification from 
the executive department under which the petitioner served or is 
serving, which shall state whether the petitioner served honor-
ably in an active-duty status during either World War I or dur-
' 
ing a period beginning September 1, 1939, and ending December 
31, 1946, and was separated from such service under honorable 
^ 
conditions; and 
(5) notwithstanding section 336 (c) of this title, the petitioner 
may be naturalized immediately if prior to the filing of the 
petition the petitioner and the witnesses shall have appeared be-
fore and been examined by a representative of the Service. 
(c) Citizenship granted pursuant to this section may be revoked in 
accordance with section 340 of this title if at any time subsequent to 
naturalization the person is separated from the military, air, or naval 
forces under other than honorable conditions, and such ground for 
revocation shall be in addition to any other provided by law. The fact 
that the naturalized person was separated from the service under other 
than honorable conditions shall be proved by a duly authenticated 
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certification from the executive department under which the person 
was serving at the time of separation. 
(d) The eligibility for naturalization of any person who filed a 
petition for naturalization prior to January 1, 1947, under section 701 
of the Nationality Act of 1940, as amended (56 Stat. 182, 58 Stat. 886, 
59 Stat. 658; 8 U. S. C. 1001), and Avhich is still pending on the effective 
date of this Act, shall be determined in accordance with the provisions 
of this section. 
CONSTRUCTIVE RESIDENCE 1HROUGH SERVICE ON CERTAIN UNITED STATES 
VESSELS 
SEC. 330. (a) (1) Any periods of time during all of which a per-
son who was previously lawfully admitted for permanent residence 
has served honorably or with good conduct, in any capacity other 
than as a member of the Armed Forces of the United States, (A) on 
board a vessel operated by the United States, or an agency thereof, 
the full legal and equitable title to which is in the United States; or 
(B) on board a vessel whose home port is in the United States, and 
(i) which is registered under the laws of the United States, or (ii) 
the full legal and equitable title to which is in a citizen of the United 
States, or a corporation organized under the laws of any of the several 
States of the United States, shall be deemed residence and physical 
presence within the United States within the meaning of section 316 
(a) of this title, if such service occurred within five years immediately 
preceding the date such person shall file a petition for naturalization. 
Service on vessels described in clause (A) of this subsection shall 
be proved by duly authenticated copies of the records of the executive 
departments or agency having custody of the records of such service. 
Service on vessels described in clause (B) of this subsection may be 
proved by certificates from the masters of such vessels. 
(£') For the purposes of this subsection, any periods of time prior 
to September 23, 1950, during all of which any person had served 
honorably or with good conduct for an aggregate period of five years 
on any vessel described in section 325 (a) of the Nationality Act of 
1940 prior to its amendment by the Act of September 23, 1950, shall 
I4 silt', lois.* 
be deemed residence and physical presence within the United States 
» "sc 725. 
within the meaning of section 316 (a) of this title, if such petition 
is filed within one year from the effective date of this Act. 
Notwith-
standing the provisions of section 318, a person entitled to claim the 
exemptions contained in this paragraph shall not be required to estab-
ish a lawful admission for permanent residence. 
(3) For the purposes of this subsection, any periods of time prior 
to September 23, 1950, during all of which any person not within the 
provisions of paragraph (2) had, prior to September 23, 1950, served 
honorably or with good conduct on any vessel described in section 
325 (a) of the Nationality Act of 1940 prior to its amendment by the 
Act of September 23,1950, and was so serving on September 23, 1950, 
shall be deemed residence and physical presence within the United 
States within the meaning of section 316 (a) of this title, if such 
person at any time prior to filing his petition for naturalization shall 
have been lawfully admitted to the United States for permanent 
residence, and if such petition is filed on or before September 23,1955. 
(b) Any person who was excepted from certain requirements of 
the naturalization laws under section 325 of the Nationality Act of 
1940 prior to its amendment by the Act of September 23, 1950, and 
had filed a petition for naturalization under section 325 of the 
Nationality Act of 1940, may, if such petition was pending on Sep-
tember 23, 1950, and is still pending on the effective date of this Act, 
be naturalized upon compliance with the applicable provisions of the 
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naturalization laws in effect upon the date such petition was filed: 
Provided^ That any such person shall be subject to the provisions of 
section 313 and to those provisions of section 318 which relate to the 
prohibition against the naturalization of a person against whom there 
is outstanding a final finding of deportability pursuant to a warrant 
of arrest issued under the provisions of this or any other Act, or which 
relate to the prohibition against the final hearing on a petition for 
naturalization if there is pending against the petitioner a deportation 
proceeding pursuant to a warrant of arrest issued under the provi-
sions of this or any other Act, 
ALIEN ENEMIES ; NATURALIZATION UNDER SPECIFIED CONDITIONS 
AND PROCEDURE 
SEC. 331. (a) An alien who is a native, citizen, subject, or denizen 
of any country, state, or sovereignty with which the United States 
is at w^ar may, after his loyalty has been fully established upon inves-
tigation by the Attorney General, be naturalized as a citizen of the 
United States if such alien's petition for naturalization shall be pend-
ing at the beginning of the state of war and the petitioner is otherwise 
entitled to admission to citizenship. 
(b) An alien embraced within this section shall not have his peti-
tion for naturalization called for a hearing, or heard, except after 
ninety days' notice given by the clerk of the court to the Attorney 
(jeneral to be represented at the hearing, and the Attorney General's 
objection to such final hearing shall cause the petition to be continued 
from time to time for so long as the Attorney General may require. 
(c) The Attorney General may, in his discretion, upon investiga-
tion fully establishing the loyalty of any alien enemy who did not 
have a petition for naturalization pending at the beginning of the 
state of war, except such alien enemy from the classification of alien 
enemy for the purposes of this title, and thereupon such alien shall 
have the privilege of filing a petition for naturalization. 
(d) An alien w^ho is a native, citizen, subject, or denizen of any coun-
try, state, or sovereignty with which the United States is at war shall 
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cease to be an alien enemy within the meaning of this section upon the 
determination by proclamation of the President, or by concurrent 
resolution of the Congress, that hostilities between the United States 
and such country, state, or sovereignty have ended. 
Notwithstanding 
the provisions of section 405 (b), this subsection shall also apply to 
the case of any such alien whose petition for naturalization was filed 
prior to the effective date of this Act and which is still pending on that 
date. 
(e) Nothing contained herein shall be taken or construed to inter-
fere with or prevent the apprehension and removal, consistent with 
law, of any alien enemy at any time prior to the actual naturalization 
of such alien. 
PROCEDURAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS ; EXECUTIVE FUNCTIONS 
SEC. 332. (a) The Attorney General shall make such rules and regu-
lations as may be necessary to carry into effect the provisions of this 
chapter and is authorized to prescribe the scope and nature of the 
examination of petitioners for naturalization as to their admissibility 
to citizenship for the purpose of making appropriate recommenda-
tions to the naturalization courts. 
Such examination, in the discre-
tion of the Attorney General, and under such rules and regulations as 
may be prescribed by him, may be conducted before or after the ap-
plicant has filed his petition for naturalization. 
Such examination 
shall be limited to inquiry concerning the applicant's residence, physi-
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253 
cal presence in the United States, good moral character, understand-
ing of and attachment to the fundamental principles of the Consti-
tution of the United States, ability to read, write, and speak English, 
and other qualifications to become a naturalized citizen as required by 
law, and shall be uniform throughout the United States. 
(b) The Attorney General is authorized to promote instruction and 
training in citizenship responsibilities of applicants for naturaliza-
tion including the sending of names of candidates for naturalization 
to the public schools, preparing and distributing citizenship textbooks 
to such candidates as are receiving instruction in preparation for citi-
zenship within or under the supervision of the public schools, prepar-
ing and distributing monthly an immigration and naturalization bul-
letin and securing the aid of and cooperating with official State and 
national organizations, including those concerned with vocational 
education. 
(c) The Attorney General shall prescribe and furnish such forms 
as may be required to give effect to the provisions of this chapter, and 
only such forms as may be so provided shall be legal. All certificates 
of naturalization and of citizenship shall be printed on safety paper 
and shall be consecutively numbered in separate series. 
(d) Employees of the Service may be designated by the Attorney 
General to administer oaths and to take depositions without charge in 
matters relating to the administration of the naturalization and citi-
zenship laws. In cases where there is a likelihood of unusual delay 
or of hardship, the Attorney General may, in his discretion, authorize 
such depositions to be taken before a postmaster without charge, or 
before a notary public or other person authorized to administer oaths 
for general purposes. 
(e) A certificate of naturalization or of citizenship issued by the 
Attorney General under the authority of this title shall have the same 
effect in all courts, tribunals, and public offices of the United States, 
at home and abroad, of the District of Columbia, and of each State, 
Territory, and outlying possession of the United States, as a certificate 
of naturalization or of citizenship issued by a court having naturaliza-
tion jurisdiction. 
(f) Certifications and certified copies of all papers, documents, certi-
ficates, and records required or authorized to be issued, used, filed, 
recorded, or kept under any and all provisions of this Act shall be ad-
mitted in evidence equally with the originals in any and all cases and 
proceedings under this Act and in all cases and proceedings in which 
the originals thereof might be admissible as evidence. 
(g) The officers in charge of property owned or leased by the 
Government are authorized, upon the recommendation of the Attorney 
General, to provide quarters, without payment of rent, in any building 
occupied by the Service, for a photographic studio, operated by w^el-
fare organizations without profit and solely for the benefit of persons 
seeking to comply with requirements under the immigration and 
nationality laws. 
Such studio shall be under the supervision of the 
Attorney General. 
PHOTOGRAPHS 
SEC. 333. (a) Three identical photographs of the applicant shall be 
signed by and furnished by each petitioner for naturalization or citi-
zenship. 
One of such photographs shall be affixed by the clerk of the 
court to the original certificate of naturalization issued to the natural-
ized citizen and one to the duplicate certificate of naturalization re-
quired to be forwarded to the Service. 
I n s t r u c t ion in 
citizenship. 
Forms. 
Oaths and dep-
ositions. 
Certificate. 
C o p i e s of rec-
ords. 
P h o t o g r a p h ic 
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(b) Three identical photographs of the applicant shall be furnished 
by each applicant for— 
(1) a record of lawful admission for permanent residence to 
be made under section 249 (a) ; 
(2) a certificate of derivative citizenship; 
(3) a certificate of naturalization or of citizenship; 
(4) a special certificate of naturalization; 
(5) a certificate of naturalization or of citizenship, in lieu of 
one lost, mutilated, or destroyed; 
(6) a new certificate of citizenship in the new name of any 
naturalized citizen who, subsequent to naturalization, has had his 
name changed by order of a court of competent jurisdiction or 
by marriage; and 
(7) a declaration of intention. 
One such photograph shall be affixed to each such certificate issued 
by the Attorney General and one shall be affixed to the copy of such 
certificate retained by the Service. 
PETITION FOR NATURALIZATION ; DECLARATION OF INTENTION 
SEC. 334. (a) An applicant for naturalization shall make and file in 
the office of the clerk of a naturalization court, in duplicate, a sworn 
petition in writing, signed by the applicant in the applicant's own 
handwriting if physically able to WTite, and duly verified by two wit-
nesses, which petition shall be on a form prescribed by the Attorney 
General and shall include averments of all facts which in the opinion 
of the Attorney General may be material to the applicant's naturaliza-
tion, and required to be proved upon the hearing of such petition. 
(b) No person shall file a valid petition for naturalization unless 
(1) he shall have attained the age of eighteen years and (2) he shall 
have first filed an application therefor at an office of the Service in 
the form and manner prescribed by the Attorney General. An appli-
cation for petition for naturalization by an alien shall contain an 
averment of lawful admission for permanent residence. 
(c) Petitions for naturalization may be made and filed during the 
term time or vacation of the naturalization court and shall be docketed 
the same day as filed, but final action thereon shall be had only on 
stated days, to be fixed by rule of the court. 
(d) If the applicant for naturalization is prevented by sickness or 
other disability from presenting himself in the office of the clerk to 
make the petition required by subsection (a), such applicant may make 
such petition at such other place as may be designated by the clerk of 
court or by such clerk's authorized deputy. 
(e) Before a petition for naturalization may be made outside of the 
office of the clerk of the court, pursuant to subsection (d) above, or 
before a final hearing on a petition may be held or the oath of alle-
giance administered outside of open court, pursuant to sections 836 
(a) and 337 (c) respectively of this title, the court must satisfy itself 
that the illness or other disability is sufficiently serious to prevent 
appearance in the office of the clerk of court and is of a permanent 
nature, or of a nature which so incapacitates the person as to prevent 
him from personally appearing in the office of the clerk of court or in 
court as otherwise required by law. 
(f) Any alien over eighteen years of age who is residing in the 
United States pursuant to a lawful admission for permanent residence 
may, upon an application prescribed, filed with, and approved by the 
Service, make and file in duplicate in the office of the clerk of court, 
regardless of the alien's place of residence in the United States, a 
signed declaration of intention to become a citizen of the United States, 
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in such form as the Attorney General shall prescribe. Nothing in this 
subsection shall be construed as requiring any such alien to make and 
file a declaration of intention as a condition precedent to filing a peti-
tion for naturalization nor shall any such declaration of intention 
be regarded as conferring or having conferred upon any such alien 
United States citizenship or nationality or the right to United States 
citizenship or nationality, nor shall such declaration be regarded as 
evidence of such alien's lawful admission for permanent residence in 
any proceeding, action, or matter arising under this or any other Act. 
INVESTIGATION OF PETITIONERS ; PRELIMINARY EXAMINATIONS ON 
PETITIONS 
SEC. 335. (a) At any time prior to the holding of the final hearing 
on a petition for naturalization provided for by section 336 (a), an 
employee of the Service, or of the United States designated by the 
Attorney General, shall conduct a personal investigation of the per-
son petitioning for naturalization in the vicinity or vicinities in which 
such person has maintained his actual place of abode and in the 
vicinity or vicinities in which such person has been employed or has 
engaged in business or work for at least five years immediately preced-
ing the filing of his petition for naturalization. The Attorney General 
may, in his discretion, waive a personal investigation in an individual 
case or in such cases or classes of cases as may be designated by him. 
(b) The Attorney General shall designate employees of the Service 
to conduct preliminary examinations upon petitions for naturaliza-
tion to any naturalization court and to make recommendations thereon 
to such court. For such purposes any such employee so designated is 
hereby authorized to take testimony concerning any matter touching 
or in any way affecting the admissibility of any petitioner for natural-
ization, to administer oaths, including the oath of the petitioner for 
naturalization and the oaths of petitioner's witnesses to the petition 
for naturalization, and to require by subpena the attendance and 
testimony of witnesses, including petitioner, before such employee so 
designated and the production of relevant books, papers, and docu-
ments, and to that end may invoke the aid of any court exercising 
naturalization jurisdiction as specified in section 310 of this title; and 
any such court may, in the event of neglect or refusal to respond to 
a subpena issued by any such employee so designated or refusal to 
testify before such employee so designated issue an order requiring 
such person to appear before such employee so designated, produce 
relevant books, papers, and documents if demanded, and testify; and 
any failure to obey such order of the court may be punished by the 
court as a contempt thereof. The record of the preliminary examina-
tion authorized by this subsection shall be admissible as evidence in 
any final hearing conducted by a naturalization court designated in 
section 310 of this title. 
(c) The record of the preliminary examination upon any petition 
for naturalization may, in the discretion of the Attorney General, 
be transmitted to the Attorney General and the recommendation with 
respect thereto of the employee designated to conduct such prelim-
inary examination shall when made also be transmitted to the Attor-
ney General, 
(d) The recommendation of the employee designated to conduct any 
such preliminary examination shall be submitted to the court at the 
hearing upon the petition and shall include a recommendation that the 
petition be granted, or denied, or continued, with reasons therefor. 
In any case in which the recommendation of the Attorney General 
does not agree with that of the employee designated to conduct such 
Waiver. 
Conduct of exam-
inations. 
Record. 
Transmittal. 
R e c o m m e n da-
tion. 
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Withdrawal of pe-
tition. 
Affidavits. 
Hearing. 
preliminary examination, the recommendations of both such employee 
and the Attorney General shall be submitted to the court at the 
hearing upon the petition, and the officer of the Service in attendance 
at such hearing shall, at the request of the court, present both the 
views of such employee and those of the Attorney (jeneral with respect 
to such petition to the court. The recommendations of such employee 
and of the Attorney General shall be accompanied by duplicate lists 
containing the names of the petitioners, classified according to the 
character of the recommendations, and signed by such employee or 
the Attorney General, as the case may be. The judge to whom such 
recommendations are submitted shall, if he approve such recom-
mendations, enter a written order with such exceptions as the judge 
may deem proper, by subscribing his name to each such list when 
corrected to conform to his conclusions upon such recommendations. 
One of each such lists shall thereafter be filed permanently of record 
in such court and the duplicate of each such list shall be sent by the 
clerk of such court to the Attorney General. 
(e) After the petition for naturalization has been filed in the office 
of the clerk of court, the petitioner shall not be permitted to withdraw 
his petition, except with the consent of the Attorney General. 
In cases 
where the Attorney General does not consent to withdrawal of the peti-
tion, the court shall determine the petition on its merits and enter a 
final order accordingly. 
In cases where the petitioner fails to prosecute 
his petition, the petition shall be decided upon its merits unless the 
Attorney General moves that the petition be dismissed for lack of 
prosecution. 
(f) As to each period and place of residence in the State in which the 
petitioner resides at the time of filing the petition, during the entire 
period of at least six months immediately preceding the date of filing 
the petition, there shall be included in the petition for naturalization 
the affidavits of at least two credible witnesses, citizens of the United 
States, stating that each has personally known the petitioner to have 
been a resident at such place for such period, and that the petitioner 
is and during all such periods has been a person of good moral char-
acter, attached to the principles of the Constitution of the United 
States, and well disposed to the good order and happiness of the United 
States. 
(g) At the hearing on the petition, residence in the State in which 
the petitioner resides at the time of filing the petition, for at least six 
months immediately preceding the date of filing the petition, and the 
other qualifications required by subsection (a) of section 316 during 
such residence shall be proved by the oral testimony of at least two 
credible witnesses, citizens of the United States, in addition to the 
affidavits required by subsection (f) of this section to be included in the 
petition. 
At the hearing, residence and physical presence within the 
United States during the five-year period required by section 316 (a), 
but outside the State, or within the State but prior to the six months 
immediately preceding the date of filing the petition, and the other 
qualifications required by subsection (a) of section 316 during such 
period at such places, shall be proved either by depositions taken in 
accordance with subsection (d) of section 332, or oral testimony, of at 
least two such witnesses for each place of residence. 
(h) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsections (f) and (g) of 
this section, the requirements of subsection (a) of section 316 as to the 
petitioner's residence, good moral character, attachment to the prin-
ciples of the Constitution of the United States, and disposition toward 
the good order and happiness of the United States may be established 
by any evidence satisfactory to the naturalization court in those cases 
under subsection (b) of section 316 in which the alien has been absent 
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from the United States because of his employment by or contract with 
the Government of the United States or an American institution of 
research, recognized as such by the Attorney General, or employment 
by an American firm or corporation engaged in whole or in part in the 
development of foreign trade and commerce of the United States or a 
subsidiary thereof, or employment by a public international organiza-
tion in which the United States participates. 
(i) (1) A petitioner for naturalization who removes from the juris-
diction of the court in which his petition for naturalization is pending 
may, at any time thereafter, make application to the court for trans-
fer of the petition to a naturalization court exercising jurisdiction 
over the petitioner's place of residence, or to any other naturalization 
court if the petition was not required to be filed in a naturalization 
court exercising jurisdiction over the petitioner's place of residence: 
Provided^ That such transfer shall not be made without the consent of 
the Attorney General, and of the court to which the petition is trans-
ferred. 
(2) Where transfer of the petition is authorized the clerk of court 
in which the petition was filed shall forward a certified copy of the 
petition and the original record in the case to the clerk of court to 
which the petition is transferred, and proceedings on the petition shall 
thereafter continue as though the petition had originally been filed in 
the court to which transferred, except that the court to which the peti-
tion is transferred may in its discretion, require the production of two 
credible United States citizen witnesses to testify as to the petitioner's 
qualifications for naturalization since the date of such transfer. 
Transfer of peti-
tion. 
PINAL HEARING IN OPEN COURT UPON PETITIONS FOR 
NATURALIZATION; 
FINAL ORDER UNDER T H E HAND OF THE COURT ENTERED UPON RECORD; 
EXAMINATION 
OF 
PETITIONER 
AND 
WITNESSES 
BEFORE 
T H E 
COURT 
SEC. 336. (a) Every final hearing upon a petition for naturaliza-
tion shall be had in open court before a judge or judges thereof, and 
every final order which may be made upon such petition shall be under 
the hand of the court and entered in full upon a record kept for that 
purpose, and upon such final hearing of such petition the petitioner 
and the witnesses, except as provided in subsection (b) of this sec-
tion, shall be examined under oath before the court and in the presence 
of the court. If the petitioner is prevented by sickness or other dis-
ability from being in open court for the final hearing upon a petition 
for naturalization, such final hearing may be had before a judge or 
judges of the court at such place as may be designated by the court. 
(b) The requirement of subsection (a) of this section for the exam-
ination of the petitioner and the witnesses under oath before the court 
and in the presence of the court shall not apply in any case where an 
employee designated under section 335 (b) has conducted the pre-
liminary examination authorized by subsection (b) of section 335; 
except that the court may, in its discretion, and shall, upon demand 
of the petitioner, require the examination of the petitioner and the 
witnesses under oath before the court and in the presence of the court. 
(c) Except as otherwise specifically provided in this title, no final 
hearing shall be held on any petition for naturalization nor shall any 
person be naturalized nor shall any certificate of naturalization be 
issued by any court within a period of thirty days after the filing of the 
petition for naturalization. 
The Attorney General may waive such 
period in an individual case if he finds that the waiver will be in the 
public interest and will promote the security of the United States. 
Notwithstanding any other provisions of this title, but except as pro-
vided in sections 328 (b) (2) and 329 (b) (5), in any case in which 
the final hearing on any petition for naturalization is scheduled to be 
N o n a p plicabil-
ity. 
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Witnesses. 
Change of name. 
lield within sixty days preceding the holding of a general election 
within the territorial jurisdiction of the naturalization court, such 
final hearing may be held, but the petitioner shall not be permitted 
to take the oath required in section H87 (a) of this title prior to the 
tenth day next following such general election. 
In any case in which 
the oath is not taken at the time of the final hearing, the petitioner 
shall not be a citizen of the United States until such oath has been 
taken. 
(d) The Attorney General shall have the right to appear before 
any court in any naturalization proceedings for the purpose of cross-
examining the petitioner and the witnesses produced in support of the 
petition concerning any matter touching or in any way affecting the 
j)etitioner's right to admission to citizenship, and shall have the right 
to call witnesses, including the petitioner, produce evidence, and be 
heard in opposition to, or in favor of, the granting of any petition in 
naturalization proceedings. 
(e) The clerk of court shall, if the petitioner requests it at the time 
of filing the petition for naturalization, issue a subpena for the wit-
nesses named by such petitioner to appear upon the day set for the 
final hearing, but in case such witnesses cannot be produced upon the 
final hearing other witnesses may be summoned upon notice to the 
Attorney General, in such manner and at such time as the Attorney 
General may by regulation prescribe. 
If it should appear after the 
petition has been filed that any of the verifying witnesses thereto are 
not competent, and it further appears that the petitioner has acted in 
good faith in producing such witnesses found to be incompetent, other 
witnesses may be substituted in accordance with such regulations. 
(f) It shall be lawful at the time and as a part of the naturalization 
of any person, for the court, in its discretion, upon the bona fide prayer 
of the petitioner included in the petition for naturalization of such 
person, to make a decree changing the name of said person, and the 
certificate of naturalization shall be issued in accordance therewith. 
OATH OF RENUNCIATION AND ALLEGIANCE 
SEC. H37. (a) A person who has petitioned for naturalization shall, 
in order to be and before being admitted to citizenship, take in open 
court an oath (1) to support the Constitution of the United States; 
(2) to renounce and abjure absolutely and entirely all allegiance and 
fidelity to any foreign prince, potentate, state, or sovereignty of whom 
or which the petitioner was before a subject or citizen; (3) to support 
and defend the Constitution and the laws of the United States against 
all enemies, foreign and domestic; (4) to bear true faith and allegiance 
to the same; and (5) (A) to bear arms on behalf of the United States 
when required by the law, or (B) to perform noncombatant service in 
the Armed Forces of the United States when required by the law, or 
(C) to perform work of national importance under civilian direction 
when required by the law. Any such person shall be required to take 
an oath containing the substance of clauses (1) through (5) of the 
])receding sentence, except that a person who shows by clear and con-
vincing evidence to the satisfaction of the naturalization court that 
he is opposed to the bearing of arms in the Armed Forces of the United 
States by reason of religious training and belief shall be required to 
take an oath containing the substance of clauses (1) through (4) and 
clauses (5) (B) and (5) (C), and a person who shows by clear and 
convincing evidence to the satisfaction of the naturalization court 
that he is opposed to any type of service in the Armed Forces of the 
ITnited States by reason of religious training and belief shall be re-
({uired to take an oath containing the substance of clauses (1) through 
(4) and clause (5) (C). The term "religious training and belief' as 
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used ill this section shall mean an individual's belief in a relation to a 
Supreme Being involving duties superior to those arising from any 
human relation, but does not include essentially political, sociological, 
or philosophical views or a merely personal moral code. In the case 
of the naturalization of a child under the provisions of section 322 or 
323 of this title the naturalization court may waive the taking of the 
oath if in the opinion of the court the child is unable to understand its 
meaning. 
(b) In case the person petitioning for naturalization has borne any 
hereditary title, or has been of any of the orders of nobility in any 
foreign state, the petitioner shall in addition to complying with the 
requirements of subsection (a) of this section, make under oath in 
open court in the court in which the petition for naturalization is 
made, an express renunciation of such title or order of nobility, and 
such renunciation shall be recorded in the court as a part of such 
proceedings. 
(c) If the petitioner is prevented by sickness or other disability 
from being in open court, the oath required to be taken by subsection 
(a) of this section may be taken before a judge of the court at such 
place as may be designated by the court. 
CERTIFICATE OF NATURALIZATION ; CONTENTS 
SEC. 338. A person admitted to citizenship by a naturalization court 
in conformity with the provisions of this title shall be entitled upon 
such admission to receive from the clerk of such court a certificate of 
naturalization, which shall contain substantially the following in-
formation : Number of petition for naturalization; number of certifi-
cate of naturalization; date of naturalization; name, signature, place 
of residence, autographed photograph, and personal description of 
the naturalized person, including age, sex, marital status, and country 
of former nationality; title, venue, and location of the naturalization 
court; statement that the court, having found that the petitioner in-
tends to reside permanently in the United States, except in cases fall-
ing wdthin the provisions of section 324 (a) of this title, had complied 
in all respects with all of the applicable provisions of the naturalization 
laws of the United States, and was entitled to be admitted a citizen 
of the United States of America, thereupon ordered that the petitioner 
be admitted as a citizen of the United States of America; attestation 
of the clerk of the naturalization court; and seal of the court. 
FUNCTIONS AND DUTIES OF CLERKS 
SEC, 339. (a) It shall be the duty of the clerk of each and every 
naturalization court to forward to the Attorney General a duplicate 
of each petition for naturalization within thirty days after the close of 
the month in which such petition was filed, and to forward to the 
Attorney General certified copies of such other proceedings and orders 
instituted in or issued out of said court affecting or relating to the 
naturalization of persons as may be required from time to time by the 
Attorney General. 
(b) It shall be the duty of the clerk of each and every naturaliza-
tion court to issue to any person admitted by such court to citizenship 
a certificate of naturalization and to forward to the Attorney General 
wdthin thirty days after the close of the month in which such certifi-
cate was issued, a duplicate thereof, and to make and keep on file 
in the clerk's office a stub for each certificate so issued, whereon shall 
be entered a memorandum of all the essential facts set forth in such 
certificate, and to forward a duplicate of each such stub to the Attor-
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Concealment 
material fact. 
Refusal to te s-
tify. 
Notice. 
ney General within thirty days after the close of the month in which 
such certificate was issued. 
(c) It shall be the duty of the clerk of each and every naturaliza-
tion court to report to the Attorney General, within thirtj^ days after 
the close of the month in which the final hearing and decision of the 
court was had, the name and number of the petition of each and every 
person who shall be denied naturalization together with the cause 
of such denial. 
(d) Clerks of courts shall be responsible for all blank certificates 
of naturalization received by them from time to time from the Attor-
ney General, and shall account to the Attorney General for them 
whenever required to do so. No certificate of naturalization received 
by any clerk of court which may be defaced or injured in such manner 
as to prevent its use as herein provided shall in any case be destroyed, 
but such certificates shall be returned to the Attorney General. 
(e) It shall be the duty of the clerk of each and every naturaliza-
tion court to cause to be filed in chronological order in separate vol-
umes, indexed, consecutively numbered, and made a part of the records 
of such court, all declarations of intention and petitions for 
naturalization. 
REVOCATION OF NATURALIZATION 
SEC. 840. (a) It shall be the duty of the United States district attor-
neys for the respective districts, upon affidavit showing good cause 
therefor, to institute proceedings in any court specified in subsection 
(a) of section 310 of this title in the judicial district in which the 
naturalized citizen may reside at the time of bringing suit, for the 
purpose of revoking and setting aside the order admitting such person 
to citizenship and canceling the certificate of naturalization on the 
ground that such order and certificate of naturalization were pro-
cured by concealment of a material fact or by willful misrepresenta-
tion, and such revocation and setting aside of the order admitting 
such person to citizenship and such canceling of certificate of natu-
ralization shall be effective as of the original date of the order and 
certificate, respectively: Provided^ That refusal on the part of a 
naturalized citizen within a period of ten years following his natu-
ralization to testify as a witness in any proceeding before a congres-
sional committee concerning his subversive activities, in a case where 
such person has been convicted of contempt for such refusal, shall be 
held to constitute a ground for revocation of such person's naturaliza-
tion under this subsection as having been procured by concealment of 
a material fact or by willful misrepresentation. 
If the naturalized 
citizen does not reside in any judicial district in the United States 
at the time of bringing such suit, the proceedings may be instituted 
in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia or 
in the United States district court in the judicial district in which 
such person last had his residence. 
(b) The party to whom was granted the naturalization alleged to 
have been procured by concealment of a material fact or by willful 
misrepresentation shall, in any such proceedings under subsection (a) 
of this section, have sixty days' personal notice, unless waived by 
such party, in which to make answer to the petition of the United 
States; and if such naturalized person be absent from the United 
States or from the judicial district in which such person last had his 
residence, such notice shall be given either by personal service upon 
him or by publication in the manner provided for the service of 
summons by publication or upon absentees by the laws of the State 
or the place where such suit is brought. 
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(c) If a person who shall have been naturalized after the effective 
date of this Act shall within five years next following such naturaliza-
tion become a member of or affiliated with any organization, member-
ship in or affiliation with which at the time of naturalization would 
have precluded such i)erson from naturalization under the provisions 
of section 313, it shall be considered prima facie evidence that such 
person was not attached to the principles of the Constitution of the 
United States and was not well disposed to the good order and hap-
piness of the United States at the time of naturalization, and, in the 
absence of countervailing evidence, it shall be sufficient in the proper 
proceeding to authorize the revocation and setting aside of the order 
admitting such person to citizenship and the cancellation of the certif-
icate of naturalization as having been obtained by concealment of a 
material fact or by willful misrepresentation, and such revocation 
and setting aside of the order admitting such person to citizenship 
and such canceling of certificate of naturalization shall be effective 
as of the original date of the order and certificate, respectively. 
(d) If a person who shall have been naturalized shall, within five 
years after such naturalization, return to the country of his nativity, 
or go to any other foreign country, and take permanent residence 
therein, it shall be considered prima facie evidence of a lack of inten-
tion on the part of such person to reside permanently in the United 
States at the time of filing his petition for naturalization, and, in the 
absence of countervailing evidence it shall be sufficient in the proper 
proceeding to authorize the revocation and setting aside of the order 
admitting such person to citizenship and the cancellation of the certif-
icate of naturalization as having been obtained by concealment of a 
material fact or by willful misrepresentation, and such revocation and 
setting aside of the order admitting such person to citizenship and 
such canceling of certificate of naturalization shall be effective as 
of the original date of the order and certificate, respectively. 
The 
diplomatic and consular officers of the United States in foreign coun-
tries shall from time to time, through the Department of State, 
furnish the Department of Justice with statements of the names of 
those persons within their respective jurisdictions who have been so 
naturalized and who have taken permanent residence in the country 
of their nativity, or in any other foreign country, and such statements, 
duly certified, shall be admissible in evidence in all courts in proceed-
ings to^ revoke and set aside the order admitting to citizenship and to 
cancel the certificate of naturalization. 
(e) The revocation and setting aside of the order admitting any 
person to citizenship and canceling his certificate of naturalization 
under the provisions of subsection (a) of section 338 of the Nation-
ality Act of 1940 shall not, where such action takes place after the 
effective date of this Act, result in the loss of citizenship or any right 
or privilege of citizenship which would have been derived by or been 
available to a wife or minor child of the naturalized person had such 
naturalization not been revoked: Provided^ That this subsection shall 
not apply in any case in which the revocation and setting aside of the 
order was the result of actual fraud. 
(f) Any person who claims United States citizenship through the 
naturalization of a parent or spouse in whose case there is a revocation 
and setting aside of the order admitting such parent or spouse to 
citizenship under the provisions of subsection (a) of this section on 
the ground that the order and certificate of naturalization were pro-
cured by concealment of a material fact or by willful misrepresenta-
tion shall be deemed to have lost and to lose his citizenship and any 
right or privilege of citizenship which he may have, now has, or may 
hereafter acquire under and by virtue of such naturalization of such 
Member ship in 
certain orga n i z a-
tions. 
F o r e i g n 
resi-
Wife or minor 
child. 
54 Stat. 1158. 
8 u s e 738. 
Citizen through 
naturalizati on of 
parent or spouse. 
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N a t u r e lization 
u n l a w f u l l y pro-
cured. 
62 Stat. 766. 
C ancellation of 
certificate. 
Applicability. 
56 Stat. 182. 
8 u s e 1002. 
Power of court. 
parent or spouse, regardless of whether such person is residing within 
or without the United States at the time of the revocation and setting 
aside of the order admitting such parent or spouse to citizenship. Any 
person who claims United States citizenship through the naturaliza-
tion of a parent or spouse in w^hose case there is a revocation and set-
ting aside of the order admitting such parent or spouse to citizenship 
and the cancellation of the certificate of naturalization under the pro-
visions of subsections (c) or (d) of this section, or under the provisions 
of section 329 (c) of this title on any ground other than that the order 
and certificate of naturalization were procured by concealment of a 
material fact or by willful misrepresentation, shall be deemed to have 
lost and to lose his citizenship and any right or privilege of citizenship 
which would have been enjoyed by such person had there not been 
a revocation and setting aside of the order admitting such parent or 
spouse to citizenship and the cancellation of the certificate of naturali-
zation, unless such person is residing in the United States at the time 
of the revocation and setting aside of the order admitting such parent 
or spouse to citizenship and the cancellation of the certificate of 
naturalization. 
(g) When a person shall be convicted under section 1425 of title 18 
of the United States Code of knowingly procuring naturalization in 
violation of law, the court in which such conviction is had shall there-
upon revoke, set aside, and declare void the final order admitting such 
person to citizenship, and shall declare the certificate of naturalization 
of such person to be canceled. 
Jurisdiction is hereby conferred on the 
courts having jurisdiction of the trial of such offense to make such 
adjudication. 
(h) Whenever an order admitting an alien to citizenship shall be 
revoked and set aside or a certificate of naturalization shall be canceled, 
or both, as provided in this section, the court in which such judgment 
or decree is rendered shall make an order canceling such certificate and 
shall send a certified copy of such order to the Attorney General. 
In 
case such certificate was not originally issued by the court making 
such order, it shall direct the clerk of court in w^hich the order is re-
voked and set aside to transmit a copy of such order and judgment to 
the court out of which such certificate of naturalization shall have been 
originally issued. 
It shall thereupon be the duty of the clerk of the 
court receiving such certified copy of the order and judgment of the 
court to enter the same of record and to cancel such original certificate 
of naturalization, if there be any, upon the records and to notify the 
Attorney General of the entry of such order and of such cancellation. 
A person holding a certificate of naturalization or citizenship which 
has been canceled as provided by this section shall upon notice by the 
court by which the decree of cancellation was made, or by the Attorney 
General, surrender the same to the Attorney General. 
(i) The provisions of this section shall apply not only to any nat-
uralization granted and to certificates of naturalization and citizen-
ship issued under the provisions of this title, but to any naturalization 
heretofore granted by any court, and to all certificates of naturalization 
and citizenship which may have been issued heretofore by any court 
or by the Commissioner based upon naturalization granted by any 
court, or by a designated representative of the Commissioner under 
the provisions of section 702 of the Nationality Act of 1940, as 
amended, or b}^ such designated representative under any other act. 
(j) Nothing contained in this section shall be regarded as limiting, 
denying, or restricting the power of any naturalization court, by or 
in which a person has been naturalized, to correct, reopen, alter, 
modify, or vacate its judgment or decree naturalizing such person, 
during the term of such court or within the time prescribed by the 
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rules of procedure or statutes governing the jurisdiction of the court 
to take such action. 
CERTIFICATES OF C I T I Z E N S H I P ; PROCEDURE 
SEC. 341. A person who claims to have derived United States citi-
zenship through the naturalization of a parent or through the natu-
ralization or citizenship of a husband, or who is a citizen of the United 
States by virtue of the provisions of section 1993 of the United States 
Revised Statutes, or of section 1993 of the United States Revised Stat-
utes, as amended by section 1 of the Act of May 24, 1934 (48 Stat. 
797), or who is a citizen of the United States by virtue of the provi-
sions of subsection (c), (d), (e), (g), or (i) of section 201 of the 
Nationality Act of 1940, as amended (54 Stat. 1138; 8 U. S. C. 601), 
or of the Act of May 7, 1934 (48 Stat. 667), or of paragraph (3), (4), 
« "^c eoi note. 
(5), or (7) of section 301 (a) of this title, or under the provisions 
of the Act of August 4, 1937 (50 Stat. 558), or under the provisions 
of section 203 or 205 of the Nationality Act of 1940 (54 Stat. 1139; 
8 U. S. C. 603, 605), or under the provisions of section 303 of this title, 
may apply to the Attorney General for a certificate of citizenship. 
Upon proof to the satisfaction of the Attorney General that the appli-
cant is a citizen, and that the applicant's alleged citizenship was 
derived as claimed, or acquired, as the case may be, and upon taking 
and subscribing before a member of the Service within the United 
States to the oath of allegiance required by this Act of a petitioner 
for naturalization, such individual shall be furnished by the Attorney 
General with a certificate of citizenship, but only if such individual 
is at the time wdthin the United States. 
CANCELLATION OF CERTIFICATES ISSUED BY T H E ATTORNEY GENERAL, THE 
COMMISSIONER OR A DEPUTY COMMISSIONER; ACTION NOT TO AFFECT 
CITIZENSHIP STATUS 
SEC. 342. The Attorney General is authorized to cancel any cer-
tificate of citizenship, certificate of naturalization, copy of a declara-
tion of intention, or other certificate, document or record heretofore 
issued or made by the Commissioner or a Deputy Commissioner or 
hereafter made by the Attorney General if it shall appear to the 
Attorney General's satisfaction that such document or record was 
illegally or fraudulently obtained from, or was created through 
illegality or by fraud practiced upon, him or the Commissioner or 
a Deputy Commissioner; but the person for or to whom such docu-
ment or record has been issued or made shall be given at such person's 
last-known place of address w^ritten notice of the intention to cancel 
such document or record with the reasons therefor and shall be given 
at least sixty days in which to show cause why such document or 
record should not be canceled. 
The cancellation under this section 
of any document purporting to show the citizenship status of the 
person to whom it was issued shall affect only the document and 
not the citizenship status of the person in whose name the document 
was issued. 
D O C U M E N T S A N D COPIES ISSUED BY T H E ATTORNEY GENERAL 
SEC. 343. (a) A person w^ho claims to have been naturalized in the 
United States under section 323 of the Nationality Act of 1940 may 
i'^ufc^VaV.^^* 
make application to the Attorney General for a certificate of naturali-
zation. 
Upon proof to the satisfaction of the Attorney General that 
the applicant is a citizen and that he has been naturalized as claimed 
in the application, such individual shall be furnished a certificate of 
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naturalization by the Attorney General, but only if the applicant is at 
the time within the United States. 
(b) If any certificate of naturalization or citizenship issued to any 
citizen or any declaration of intention furnished to any declarant is 
lost, mutilated, or destroyed, the citizen or declarant may make appli-
cation to the Attorney General for a new certificate or declaration. 
If 
the Attorney General finds that the certificate or declaration is lost, 
mutilated, or destroyed, he shall issue to the applicant a new^ certificate 
or declaration. 
If the certificate or declaration has been mutilated, 
it shall be surrendered to the Attorney General before the applicant 
may receive such new certificate or declaration. 
If the certificate or 
declaration has been lost, the applicant or any other person who shall 
have, or may come into possession of it is hereby required to surrender 
.,., 
,,^ 
it to the Attorney General. 
(c) The Attorney General shall issue for any naturalized citizen, 
on such citizen's application therefor, a special certificate of naturali-
zation for use by such citizen only for the purpose of obtaining recog-
nition as a citizen of the United States by a foreign state. 
Such cer-
tificate when issued shall be furnished to the Secretary of State for 
transmission to the proper authority in such foreign state. 
(d) If the name of any naturalized citizen has, subsequent to natu-
ralization, been changed by order of any court of competent jurisdic-
tion, or by marriage, the citizen may make application for a new cer-
tificate of naturalization in the new name of such citizen. 
If the 
Attorney General finds the name of the applicant to have been changed 
as claimed, the Attorney General shall issue to the applicant a new 
certificate and shall notify the naturalization court of such action. 
(e) The Attorney (xeneral is authorized to make and issue certifica-
tions of any part of the naturalization records of any court, or of any 
certificate of naturalization or citizenship, for use in complying with 
any statute. State or Federal, or in any judicial proceeding. 
No such 
certification shall be made by any clerk of court except upon order of 
the court. 
. 
FISCAL PROVISIONS 
SEC. 344. (a) The clerk of court shall charge, collect, and account 
for the following fees: 
(1) For making, filing, and docketing a petition for naturalization, 
$10, including the final hearing on such petition, if such hearing be 
held, and a certificate of naturalization, if the issuance of such certifi-
cate is authorized by the naturalization court. 
(2) For receiving and filing a declaration of intention, and issuing 
a duplicate thereof, $5. 
(b) The Attorney General shall charge, collect, and account for the 
following fees: 
(1) For application for a certificate of naturalization or declaration 
of intention in lieu of a certificate or declaration alleged to have been 
lost, mutilated, or destroyed, $5. 
(2) For application for a certificate of citizenship, $5. 
(3) For application for the issuance of a special certificate of citizen-
ship to obtain recognition, $5. 
(4) For application for a certificate of naturalization under section 
|\jf|*- 1149. 
323 of the Nationality Act of 1940, or under section 343 (a) of this 
title, $5. 
(5) For application for a certificate of citizenship in changed name, 
$5. 
(6) Reasonable fees in cases where such fees have not been estab-
lished by law, to cover the cost of furnishing copies, whether certified 
or uncertified, of any part of the records, or information from the 
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records, of the Service. 
Such fees shall not exceed a maximum of 25 
cents per folio of one hundred words, with a minimum fee of 50 cents 
for any one such service, in addition to a fee of $1 for any official 
certification furnished under seal. 
No such fee shall be required 
from officers or agencies of the United States or of any State or any 
subdivision thereof, for such copies or information furnished for offi-
cial use in connection with the official duties of such officers or agencies. 
(7) Notwithstanding the preceding provisions of this subsection, 
no fee shall be charged or collected for an application for declaration 
of intention or a certificate of naturalization in lieu of a declaration 
or a certificate alleged to have been lost, mutilated, or destroyed, sub-
mitted by a person who was a member of the military or naval forces 
of the United States at any time after April 20, 1898, and before 
July 5,1902; or at any time after April 5, 1917, and before November 
12, 1918; or who served on the Mexican border as a member of the 
Regular Army or National Guard between June 1916 and April 1917; 
or who has served or hereafter serves in the military, air, or naval 
forces of the United States after September 16,1940, and who was not 
at any time during such period or thereafter separated from such 
forces under other than honorable conditions, who was not a conscien-
tious objector who performed no military duty whatever or refused 
to wear the uniform, or who was not at any time during such period 
or thereafter discharged from such military, air, or naval forces on 
account of alienage. 
(c) The clerk of any naturalization court specified in subsection (a) 
of section 310 (except the courts specified in subsection (d) of this 
section) shall account for and pay over to the Attorney General one-
half of all fees up to the sum of $6,000, and all fees in excess of $6,000, 
collected by any such clerk in naturalization proceedings in any fiscal 
year. 
(d) The clerk of any United States district court (except in Alaska 
and in the District Court of the Virgin Islands of the United States 
and in the District Court of Guam) shall account for and pay over 
to the Attorney General all fees collected by any such clerk in natural-
ization proceedings: Provided^ however^ That the clerk of the District 
Court of the Virgin Islands of the United States and of the District 
Court of Guam shall report but shall not be required to pay over 
to the Attorney General the fees collected by any such clerk in natural-
ization proceedings. 
(e) The accounting required by subsections (c) and (d) of this 
section shall be made and the fees paid over to the Attorney General 
by such respective clerks in their quarterly accounts which they are 
hereby required to render to the Attorney General within thirty 
days from the close of each quarter of each and every fiscal year, in 
accordance with regulations prescribed by the Attorney General. 
(f) The clerks of the various naturalization courts shall pay all 
additional clerical force that may be required in performing the duties 
imposed by this title upon clerks of courts from fees retained under the 
provisions of this section by such clerks in naturalization proceedings. 
(g) All fees collected by the Attorney General and all fees paid 
over to the Attorney General by clerks of courts under the provisions 
of this title shall be deposited by the Attorney General in the Treasury 
of the United States: Provided^ however^ That all fees received from 
applicants residing in the Virgin Islands of the United States, and in 
Guam, required to be paid under subsection (b) of this section, shall 
he paid over to the treasury of the Virgin Islands and to the treasury 
of Guam, respectively. 
(h) During the time when the United States is at war no clerk of a 
United States court shall charge or collect a naturalization fee from 
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an alien in the military, air, or naval service of the United States for 
filing a petition for naturalization or issuing a certificate of naturaliza-
tion upon admission to citizenship, and no clerk of any State court 
shall charge or collect any fee for such services unless the laws of the 
State require such charge to be made, in which case nothing more than 
the portion of the fee required to be paid to the State shall be charged 
or collected. A report of all transactions under this subsection shall 
be made to the Attorney General as in the case of other reports required 
of clerks of courts by this title. 
(i) In addition to the other fees required by this title, the petitioner 
for naturalization shall, upon the filing of a petition for naturaliza-
tion, deposit Avith and pay to the clerk of court a sum of money 
sufficient to cover the expenses of subpenaing and paying the legal 
fees of any witnesses for whom such petitioner may request a subpena, 
and upon the final discharge of such witnesses, they shall receive, if 
they demand the same from the clerk, the customary and usual witness 
fees from the moneys which the petitioner shall have paid to such 
clerk for such purpose, and the residue, if any, shall be returned by 
the clerk to the petitioner. 
MAIL RELATING TO NATURALIZATION TRANSMITTED FREE OF POSTAGE AND 
REGISTERED 
SEC. 345. All mail matter of whatever class, relating to naturaliza-
tion, including duplicate papers required by law or regulation to be 
sent to the Service by clerks of courts addressed to the Department of 
Justice or the Service, or any official thereof, and endorsed "Official 
Business", shall be transmitted free of postage and, if necessary, by 
registered mail without fee, and so marked. 
AUTHORIZATION GRANTED FOR PUBLICATION AND DISTRIBUTION OF CITIZEN-
S H I P TEXTBOOKS FROM NATURALIZATION FEES 
SEC. 346. Authorization is hereby granted for the publication and 
distribution of the citizenship textbook described in subsection (b) of 
section 332 and for the reimbursement of the appropriation of the 
Department of Justice upon the records of the Treasury Department 
from the naturalization fees deposited in the Treasury through the 
Service for the cost of such publication and distribution, such reim-
bursement to be made upon statements by the Attorney General of 
books so published and distributed. 
COMPILATION OF NATURALIZATION STATISTICS AND PAYMENT FOR 
EQUIPMENT 
SEC. 347. The Attorney General is authorized and directed to pre-
pare from the records in the custody of the Service a report upon those 
heretofore seeking citizenship to show by nationalities their relation 
to the numbers of aliens annually arriving and to the prevailing census 
populations of the foreign-born, their economic, vocational, and other 
classification, in statistical form, with analytical comment thereon, and 
to prepare such report annually hereafter. 
Payment for the equip-
ment used in preparing such compilation shall be made from the ap-
propriation for the enforcement of this Act by the Service. 
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ADMISSIBILITY I N EVIDENCE OF TESTIMONY AS TO STATEMENTS VOLUN-
TARILY MADE TO OFFICERS OR EMPLOYEES I N T H E COURSE OF THEIR 
OFFICIAL DUTIES 
SEC. 348. (a) It shall be lawful and admissible as evidence in any 
proceedings founded under this title, or any of the penal or criminal 
provisions of any law relating to immigration, naturalization, or 
citizenship, for any officer or employee of the United States to render 
testimony as to any statement voluntarily made to such officer or 
employee in the course of the performance of the official duties of such 
officer or employee by any defendant at the time or subsequent to the 
alleged commission of any crime or offense which may tend to show 
that such defendant did not have or could not have had knowledge of 
any matter concerning which such defendant is shown to have made 
affidavit, or oath, or to have been a witness pursuant to such law or laws. 
(b) In case any clerk of court shall refuse or neglect to comply with 
any of the provisions of section 339 (a), (b), or (c), such clerk of 
court shall forfeit and pay to the United States the sum of $25 in 
each and every case in which such violation or omission occurs and 
the amount of such forfeiture may be recovered by the United States 
in a civil action against such clerk. 
(c) If any clerk of court shall fail to return to the Service or 
properly account for any certificate of naturalization furnished by the 
Service as provided in subsection (d) of section 339, such clerk of court 
shall be liable to the United States in the sum of $50, to be recovered 
in a civil action, for each and every such certificate not properly 
accounted for or returned. 
CHAPTER 3—Loss OF NATIONALITY 
LOSS OF N A T I O N A L I T Y BY NATIVB-BORN OR NATURALIZED CITIZEN 
SEC. 349. (a) From and after the effective date of this Act a person 
who is a national of the United States whether by birth or naturaliza-
tion, shall lose his nationality by— 
(1) obtaining naturalization in a foreign state upon his own 
application, upon an application filed in his behalf by a parent, 
guardian, or duly authorized agent, or through the naturalization 
of a parent having legal custody of such person: Provided^ That 
nationality shall not be lost by any person under this section as 
the result of the naturalization of a parent or parents while such 
person is under the age of twenty-one years, or as the result of a 
naturalization obtained on behalf of a person under twenty-one 
years of age by a parent, guardian, or duly authorized agent, 
unless such person shall fail to enter the United States to establish 
a permanent residence prior to his twenty-fifth birthday: And 
provided further^ That a person who shall have lost nationality 
prior to January 1, 1948, through the naturalization in a foreign 
state of a parent or parents, may, within one year from the 
effective date of this Act, apply for a visa and for admission to 
the United States as a nonquota immigrant under the provisions 
of section 101 (a) (27) (E) ; or 
(2) taking an oath or making an affirmation or other formal 
declaration of allegiance to a foreign state or a political sub-
division thereof; or 
(3) entering, or serving in, the armed forces of a foreign state 
unless, prior to such entry or service, such entry or service is spe-
cifically authorized in writing by the Secretary of State and the 
Secretary of Defense: Provided, That the entry into such service 
by a person prior to the attainment of his eighteenth birthday shall 
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serve to expatriate such person only if there exists an option to 
secure a release from such service and such person fails to exercise 
such option at the attainment of his eighteenth birthday; or 
(4) (A) accepting, serving in, or performing the duties of any 
office, post, or employment under the government of a foreign state 
or a political subdivision thereof, if he has or acquires the nation-
ality of such foreign state; or (13) accepting, serving in, or per-
forming the duties of any office, post, or employment under the 
government of a foreign state or a political subdivision thereof, 
for which office, post, or employment an oath, affirmation, or dec-
laration of allegiance is required; or 
(5) voting in a political election in a foreign state or partici-
pating in an election or plebiscite to determine the sovereignty 
over foreign territory; or 
(6) making a formal renunciation of nationality before a diplo-
matic or consular officer of the United States in a foreign state, 
in such form as may be prescribed by the Secretary of State; or 
(7) making in the United States a formal written renunciation 
of nationality in such form as may be prescribed by, and before 
such officer as may be designated by, the Attorney General, when-
ever the United States shall be in a state of war and the Attorney 
General shall approve such renunciation as not contrary to the 
interests of national defense; or 
(8) deserting the military, air, or naval forces of the United 
States in time of war, if and when he is convicted thereof by court 
martial and as the result of such conviction is dismissed or dis-
honorably discharged from the service of such military, air, or 
naval forces: Provided^ That, notwithstanding loss of nationality 
or citizenship under the terms of this or previous laws by reason 
of desertion committed in time of w^ar, restoration to active duty 
with such military, air, or naval forces in time of war or the 
reenlistment or induction of such a person in time of war with 
permission of competent military, air, or naval authority shall 
be deemed to have the immediate effect of restoring such nation-
ality or citizenship heretofore or hereafter so lost; or 
(9) committing any act of treason against, or attempting by 
force to overthrow, or bearing arms against, the United States, 
if and when he is convicted thereof by a court martial or by a 
court of competent jurisdiction; or 
(10) departing from or remaining outside of the jurisdiction of 
the United States in time of war or during a period declared by 
the President to be a period of national emergency for the purpose 
of evading or avoiding training and service in the military, air, 
or naval forces of the United States. 
For the purposes of this 
paragraph failure to comply with any provision of any compul-
sory service laws of the United States shall raise the presumption 
that the departure from or absence from the United States was for 
the purpose of evading or avoiding training and service in the 
military, air, or naval forces of the United States. 
(b) Any person w^ho commits or performs any act specified in sub-
section (a) shall be conclusively presumed to have done so voluntarily 
and without having been subjected to duress of any kind, if such 
person at the time of the act was a national of the state in which the 
act was performed and had been physically present in such state for a 
period or periods totaling ten years or more immediately prior to 
such act. 
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DUAL NATIONALS; DIVESTITURE OF NATIONALITY 
SEC. 350. A person wlio acquired at birth the nationality of the 
United States and of a foreign state and who has voluntarily sought 
or claimed benefits of the nationality of any foreign state shall lose his 
United States nationality by hereafter having a continuous residence 
for three years in the foreign state of which he is a national by birth 
at any time after attaining the age of twenty-two years unless he 
shall— 
(1) prior to the expiration of such three-year period, take an 
oath of allegiance to the United States before a United States 
displomatic or consular officer in a manner prescribed by the 
Secretary of State; and 
(2) have his residence outside of the United States solely for 
one of the reasons set forth in paragraph ( 1 ) , ( 2 ) , ( 4 ) , ( 5 ) , ( 6 ) , 
(7), or (8) of section 353, or paragraph (1) or (2) of section 354 
of this title: Provided^ however^ That nothing contained in this 
section shall deprive any person of his United States nationality 
if his foreign residence shall begin after he shall have attained 
the age of sixty years and shall have had his residence in the 
United States for twenty-five years after having attained the 
age of eighteen years. 
RESTRICTIONS ON EXPATRIATION 
SEC. 351. (a) Except as provided in paragraphs (7), (8), and (9) 
of section 349 of this title, no national of the United States can expatri-
ate himself, or be expatriated, under this Act while within the United 
States or any of its outlying possessions, but expatriation shall result 
from the performance within the United States or any of its outlying 
possessions of any of the acts or the fulfillment of any of the con-
ditions specified in this chapter if and when the national thereafter 
takes up a residence outside the United States and its outlying 
possessions. 
(b) A national who within six months after attaining the age of 
eighteen years asserts his claim to United States nationality, in such 
manner as the Secretary of State shall by regulation prescribe, shall 
not be deemed to have expatriated himself by the commission, prior 
to his eighteenth birthday, of any of the acts specified in paragraphs 
(2), (4), (5), and (6) of section 349 (a) of this title. 
LOSS OF NATIONALITY BY NATURAUZED NATIONAL 
SEC. 352. (a) A person who has become a national by naturaliza-
tion shall lose his nationality by— 
(1) having a continuous residence for three years in the terri-
tory of a foreign state of which he was formerly a national or 
in which the place of his birth is situated, except as provided 
in section 353 of this title, whether such residence commenced 
before or after tlie effective date of this Act; 
(2) having a continuous residence for five years in any other 
foreign state or states, except as provided in sections 353 and 354 
of this title, whether such residence commenced before or after 
the effective date of this Act. 
(b) (1) For the purpose of paragraph (1) of subsection (a) of 
this section, the time during which the person had his residence abroad 
solely or principally for a reason or purpose within the scope of any 
provision of section 353 shall not be counted in computing quantum 
of residence. 
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(2) For the purpose of paragraph (2) of subsection (a) of this 
section, the time during which the person had his residence abroad 
solely or principally for a reason or purpose within the scope of any 
provision of sections 353 and 354 shall not be counted in computing 
quantum of residence. 
SECTION 35 
2 
NOT EFFECTIVE AS TO CERTAIN PERSONS 
SEC. 353. Section 352 (a) shall have no application to a national 
who— 
(1) has his residence abroad in the employment of the Gov-
ernment of the United States; or 
(2) is receiving compensation from the Government of the 
United States and has his residence abroad on account of disabil-
ity incurred in its service; or 
(3) shall have had his residence in the United States for not 
less than twenty-five years subsequent to his naturalization and 
shall have attained the age of sixty years when the foreign resi-
dence is established; or 
(4) had his residence abroad on October 14, 1940, and tem-
porarily has his residence abroad, or who thereafter has gone or 
goes abroad and temporarily has his residence abroad, solely 
or principally to represent a bona fide American 
educa-
tional, scientific, philanthropic, commercial, financial, or busi-
ness organization, having its principal office or place of business 
in the United States, or a bona fide religious organization having 
an office and representative in the United States, or an interna-
tional agency of an official character in which the United States 
participates, for which he receives a substantial compensation; or 
(5) has his residence abroad and is prevented from returning 
to the United States exclusively (A) by his own ill health; or (B) 
by the ill health of his parent, spouse, or child who cannot be 
brought to the United States, whose condition requires his per-
sonal care and attendance: Provided^ That in such case the person 
having his residence abroad shall, at least every six months, regis-
ter at the appropriate Foreign Service office and submit evidence 
satisfactory to the Secretary of State that his case continues to 
meet the requirements of this subparagraph; or (C) by reason 
of the death of his parent, spouse, or child: Provided^ That in the 
case of the death of such parent, spouse, or child the person having 
his residence abroad shall return to the United States within six 
months after the death of such relative; or 
(6) has his residence abroad for the purpose of pursuing a full 
course of study of a specialized character or attending full-time 
an institution of learning of a grade above that of a preparatory 
school: Provided^ That such residence does not exceed five years; 
or 
(7) is the spouse or child of an American citizen, and who has 
his residence abroad for the purpose of being with his American 
citizen spouse or parent who has his residence abroad for one of the 
objects or causes specified in paragraph (1), (2), (3), (4), (5), or 
(6) of this section, or paragraph (2) of section 354 of this title; or 
(8) is the spouse or child of an American national by birth 
who while under the age of twenty-one years had his residence in 
the United States for a period of periods totaling ten years, and 
has his residence abroad for the purpose of being with said spouse 
or parent; or 
(9) was born in the United States or one of its outlying posses-
sions, who originally had American nationality and who, after 
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having lost such nationality through marriage to an alien, re-
acquired it; or 
(10) has, by Act of Congress or by treaty, United States na-
tionality solely by reason of former nationality and birth or 
residence in an area outside the continental United States: Prov-
vided^ That subsections (b) and (c) of section 404 of the Nation-
ality Act of 1940, as amended (8 U. S. C. 804 (b) and (c)), shall 
not be held to be or to have been applicable to persons denned in 
this paragraph. 
SECTION 3 
52 (A) (2) NOT APPLICABLE AS TO CERTAIN PERSONS 
SEC. 354. Section 352 (a) (2) of this title shall have no application 
to a national— 
(1) who is a veteran of the Spanish-American War, World 
War I, or World War II, and the spouse, children, and dependent 
parents of such veteran whether such residence in the territory of 
a foreign state or states commenced before or after the effective 
date of this Act: Provided^ That any such veteran who upon the 
date of the enactment of this Act has had his residence contin-
uously in the territory of a foreign state of which he was formerly 
a national or in which the place of his birth is situated for three 
years or more, and who has retained his United States nationality 
solely by reason of the provisions of section 406 (h) of the Na-
tionality Act of 1940, shall not be subject to the provisions or 
I^Js^c^soe.*^* 
requirements of section 352 (a) (1) of this title: Provided 
fur-
ther^ That the provisions of section 404 (c) of the Nationality 
Act of 1940, as amended, shall not be held to be or to have been 
^ "^^ ^°'*" 
applicable to veterans of World War I I ; 
(2) who has established to the satisfaction of the Secretary of 
State, as evidenced by possession of a valid unexpired United 
States passport or other valid document issued by the Secretary 
of State, that his residence is temporarily outside of the United 
States for the purpose of (A) carrying on a commercial enter-
prise which in the opinion of the Secretary of State will directly 
and substantially benefit American trade or commerce; or (B) 
carrying on scientific research on behalf of an institution 
accredited by the Secretary of State and engaged in research 
which in the opinion of the Secretary of State is directly and 
substantially beneficial to the interests of the United States; or 
(C) engaging in such work or activities, under such unique or 
unusual circumstances, as may be determined by the Secretary of 
State to be directly and substantially beneficial to the interests 
of the United States; 
(3) who is the widow or widower of a citizen of the United 
States and who has attained the age of sixty years, and who has 
had a residence outside of the United States and its outlying 
possessions for a period of not less than ten years during all of 
which period a marriage relationship has existed with a spouse 
who has had a residence outside of the United States and its out-
lying possessions in an occupation or capacity of the type des-
ignated in paragraphs (1), (2), (3), (4), or (5) (A) of section 
353, or paragraphs (1), (2), or (4) of this section; 
(4) who has attained the age of sixty years, and has had a resi-
dence outside of the United States and its outlying possessions for 
not less than ten years, during all of which period he has been 
engaged in an occupation of the type designated in paragraphs 
(1), (2), or (4) of section 353, or paragraph (2) of this section, 
and who is in bona fide retirement from such occupation; or 
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(5) who shall have had his residence in the United States for not 
less than twenty-five years subsequent to his naturalization and 
prior to the establishment of his foreign residence. 
LOSS o r AMERICAN NATIONALITY THROUGH PARENT'S EXPATRIATION; NOT 
^^, 
EFFECTIVE U N T I L PERSON A'm^AINS AGE o r TWENTY-FIVE YEARS 
SEC, 355. A person having United States nationality, who is under the 
age of twenty-one and whose residence is in a foreign state with or 
under the legal custody of a parent who hereafter loses United States 
nationality under section 350 or 352 of this title, shall also lose his 
United States nationality if such person has or acquires the nationality 
of such foreign state: Provided^ That, in such case. United States 
nationality shall not be lost as the result of loss of United States na-
tionality by the parent unless and until the person attains the age of 
twenty-five years w^ithout having established his residence in the 
United States. 
NATIONALITY LOST SOLELY FROM PERFORMANCE OF ACTS OR 
FULFILLMENT OF CONDITIONS 
SEC. 356. The loss of nationality under this chapter shall result 
solely from the performance by a national of the acts or fulfillment of 
the conditions specified in this chapter. 
APPLICATION OF TREATIES ; E X C E P T I O N S 
.-oii >: 
SEC. 357. Nothing in this title shall be applied in contravention of 
the provisions of any treaty or convention to which the United States 
is a party and which has been ratified by the Senate upon the effective 
date of this title: Provided^ hoioever^ That no woman who was a na-
tional of the United States shall be deemed to have lost her nationality 
solely by reason of her marriage to an alien on or after September 22, 
1922, or to an alien racially ineligible to citizenship on or after March 
3, 1931, or, in the case of a woman who was a United States citizen at 
birth, through residence abroad following such marriage, notwith-
standing the provisions of any existing treaty or convention. 
CHAPTER 4—MISCELLANEOUS 
CERTIFICATE OF DIPLOMATIC OR CONSULAR OFFICER OF THE UNITED STATES 
AS TO L O S S O F AMERICAN NATIONALITY UNDER CHAPTER IV, NATIONALITY 
A C T O F 1 9 4 0 , OR UNDER CHAPTER 3 OF T H I S TITLE 
SEC 358. Whenever a diplomatic or consular officer of the United 
States has reason to believe that a person while in a foreign state has 
lost his United States nationality under any provision of chapter 3 
of this title, or under any provision of chapter IV of the Nationality 
i'us^c^so^cJ-s^io. 
-^^t of 1940, as amended, he shall certify the facts upon which such 
belief is based to the Department of State, in writing, under regula-
tions prescribed by the Secretary of State. If the report of the dip-
lomatic or consular officer is approved by the Secretary of State, a copy 
of the certificate shall be forwarded to the Attorney General, for his 
information, and the diplomatic or consular office in which the report 
was made shall be directed to forward a copy of the certificate to the 
person to whom it relates. 
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CERTIFICATE OF NATIONALITY TO BE ISSUED BY T H E SECRETARY OF STATE FOR 
> • : 
A PERSON NOT A NATURALIZED CITIZEN OF THE UNITED STATES FOR USE 
I N PROCEEDINGS OF A FOREIGN STATE 
S E C 359. The Secretary of State is hereby authorized to issue, in his 
discretion and in accordance with rules and regulations prescribed by 
him, a certificate of nationality for anj^ person not a naturalized citizen 
of the United States who presents satisfactory evidence that he is an 
American national and that such certificate is needed for use in judicial 
or administrative proceedings in a foreign state. 
Such certififcate shall 
be solely for use in the case for which it was issued and shall be trans-
mitted by the Secretary of State through appropriate official channels 
to the judicial or administrative officers of the foreign state in which it 
is to be used. 
PROCEEDINGS FOR DECLARATION OF UNITED STATES NATIONALITY I N 
THE 
EVENT OF DENIAL OF RIGHTS AND PRIVILEGES AS NATIONAL 
SEC. 360. (a) If any person who is within the United States claims 
a right or privilege as a national of the United States and is denied 
such right or privilege by any department or independent agency, or 
official thereof, upon the ground that he is not a national of the United 
States, such person may institute an action under the provisions of 
section 2201 of title 28, United States Code, against the head of such 
^^ ^*^*- ^^'^' 
department or independent agency for a judgment declaring him to be 
a national of the United States, except that no such action may be in-
stituted in any case if the issue of such person's status as a national of 
the United States (1) arose by reason of, or in connection with any 
exclusion proceeding under the provisions of this or any other act, or 
(2) is in issue in any such exclusion proceeding. 
An action under this 
subsection may be instituted only within five years after the final ad-
ministrative denial of such right or privilege and shall be filed in the 
district court of the United States for the district in which such person 
resides or claims a residence, and jurisdiction over such officials in 
such cases is hereby conferred upon those courts. 
(b) If any person who is not w^ithin the United States claims a idenmy'''*" ^^'^ °* 
right or privilege as a national of the United States and is denied such 
right or privilege by any department or independent agency, or offi-
cial thereof, upon the ground that he is not a national of the United 
States, such person may make application to a diplomatic or consular 
officer of the United States in the foreign country in which he is 
residing for a certificate of identity for the purpose of traveling to 
a port of entry in the United States and applying for admission. 
Upon proof to the satisfaction of such diplomatic or consular officer 
that such application is made in good faith and has a substantial 
basis, he shall issue to such person a certificate of identity. From any 
Appeal, 
denial of an application for such certificate the applicant shall be 
entitled to an appeal to the Secretary of State, who, if he approves 
the denial, shall state in writing his reasons for his decision. 
The 
Secretary of State shall prescribe rules and regulations for the issu-
ance of certificates of identity as above provided. The provisions of 
this subsection shall be applicable only to a person who at some time 
prior to his application for the certificate of identity has been phy-
sically present in the ITnited States, or to a person under sixteen years 
-
of age who was born abroad of a United States citizen parent. 
(c) A person who has been issued a certificate of identity under the 
provisions of subsection (b), and while in possession thereof, may 
apply for admission to the United States at any port of entry, and 
shall be subject to all the provisions of this Act relating to the conduct 
of proceedings involving aliens seeking admission to the United 
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Review. 
States, A final determination by the Attorney General that any such 
person is not entitled to admission to the United States shall be subject 
to review by any court of competent jurisdiction in habeas corpus 
proceedings and not otherwise. Any person described in this section 
who is finally excluded from admission to the United States shall be 
subject to all the provisions of this Act relating to aliens seeking 
admission to the United States. 
TITLE IV—MISCELLANEOUS 
Chairman. 
Reports. 
Hearings. 
2 u s e 192, 194. 
Travel expenses, 
etc. 
JOINT CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEE 
SEC. 401, (a) There is hereby established a joint congressional com-
mittee to be known as the Joint Committee on Immigration and 
Nationality Policy (hereinafter referred to as the "Committee") to 
be composed of ten members as follows: (1) five members who are 
members of the Committee on the Judiciary of the Senate, three from 
the majority and two from the minority party to be appointed by 
the President of the Senate; and (2) five members who are members 
of the Committee on the Judiciary of the House of Representatives, 
three from the majority and two from the minority party to be 
appointed by the Speaker of the House of Representatives. 
(b) No person shall continue to serve as a member of the Committee 
after he has ceased to be a member of the Committee on the Judiciary 
of either the Senate or the House of Representatives. 
(c) A vacancy in the membership of the Committee shall be filled 
in the same manner as the original selection and the Committee shall 
elect a Chairman from among its members. 
(d) It shall be the function of the Committee to make a continuous 
study of (1) the administration of this Act, and its effect on the 
national security, the economy, and the social welfare of the United 
States, and (2) such conditions within or without the United States 
which in the opinion of the Committee might have any bearing on 
the immigration and nationality policy of the United States. 
(e) The Committee shall make from time to time a report to the 
Senate and the House of Representatives concerning the results of its 
studies together with such recommendations as it may deem desirable. 
(f) The Secretary of State and the Attorney General shall without 
delay submit to the Committee all regulations, instructions, and all 
other information as requested by the Committee relative to the 
administration of this Act; and the Secretary of State and the 
Attorney General shall consult with the Committee from time to time 
with respect to their activities under this Act. 
(g) The Committee or any duly authorized Subcommittee thereof 
is authorized to hold such hearings; to sit and act at such times and 
places; to require by subpena or otherwise the attendance of such 
witnesses and the production of such books, papers, and documents; 
to administer such oaths; to take such testimony; to procure such 
printing and binding as it deems advisable. 
The provisions of sec-
tions 102 and 104, inclusive, of the Revised Statutes shall apply in 
case of any failure of any witnesses to comply with any subpena or 
to testify when summoned under the authority of this Act, 
(h) The members of the Committee shall serve without compen-
sation in addition to that received for their services as Members of 
Congress but they shall be reimbursed for travel, subsistence, and 
other expenses incurred by them in the performance of the duties 
vested in the Committee other than expenses in connection with meet-
ings of the Committee held in the District of Columbia during such 
times as the Congress is in session. 
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(i) The Committee is authorized, without regard to the civil service 
laws or the Classification Act of 1949, to appoint and fix the com-
pensation of such clerks, experts, consultants, and clerical and steno-
graphic assistants as it deems necessary and advisable. 
The Com-
mittee is authorized to reimburse the members of its staff for travel, 
subsistence and the other necessary expenses incurred by them in the 
performance of the duties vested in the Committee other than expenses 
in connection with meetings of the Committee held in the District of 
Columbia during such times as the Congress is in session. The chair-
man of the Committee on the Judiciary of the Senate and the chair-
man of the Committee on the Judiciary of the House of Representa-
tives may assign members of the staff of the said committees to serve 
on the staff of the Committee, without additional compensation, except 
for the reimbursement of expenses incurred by such staff members 
as prescribed in this subsection. 
(j) The expenses of the Committee shall be paid one-half from 
the contingent fund of the Senate and one-half from the contingent 
fund of the House of Representatives, upon vouchers signed by the 
Chairman of the Committee or by any member of the Committee duly 
authorized by the Chairman. 
(k) This section shall take effect on the date of the enactment of 
this Act. 
AMENDMENTS TO OTHER LAWS 
SEC. 402. (a) Section 1546 of title 18 of the United States Code 
is amended to read as follows: 
"§ 1546. Fraud and misuse of visas, permits, and other entry docu-
ments 
"Whoever, knowingly forges, counterfeits, altei-s, or falsely makes 
any immigrant or nonimmigrant visa, permit, or other document 
required for entry into the United States, or utters, uses, attempts to 
use, possesses, obtains, accepts, or receives any such visa, permit, or 
document, knowing it to be forged, counterfeited, altered, or falsely 
made, or to have been procured by means of any false claim or state-
ment, or to have been otherwise procured by fraud or unlawfully 
obtained; or 
"Whoever, except under direction of the Attorney General or the 
Commissioner of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, or 
other proper officer, knowingly possesses any blank permit, or 
engraves, sells, brings into the United States, or has in his control 
or possession any plate in the likeness of a plate designed for the 
printing of permits, or makes any print, photograph, or impression 
in the likeness of any immigrant or nonimmigrant visa, permit or 
other document required for entry into the United States, or has in 
his possession a distinctive paper which has been adopted by the 
Attorney General or the Commissioner of the Immigration and Natu-
ralization Service for the printing of such visas, permits, or docu-
ments; or 
"Whoever, when applying for an immigrant or nonimmigrant visa, 
permit, or other document required for entry into the United States, 
or for admission to the United States personates another, or falsely 
appears in the name of a deceased individual, or evades or attempts 
to evade the immigration laws by appearing under an assumed or fic-
titious name without disclosing his true identity, or sells or otherwise 
disposes of, or offers to sell or otherwise dispose of, or utters, such 
visa, permit, or other document, to any person not authorized by law to 
receive such document; or 
"Whoever knowingly makes under oath any false statement with 
respect to a material fact in any application, affidavit, or other docu-
Personnel. 
63 Stat. 954. 
5 u s e 1071 note. 
E f f e c tive date 
of section. 
62 Stat. 771. 
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62 Stat. 766. 
62 Stat. 756. 
64 Stat. 316. 
8 u s e 724a-1. 
R e g u l a r 
Army 
service. 
22 u s e 1446. 
Information and 
e d u c a t i o nal ex-
changes. 
ment required by the immigration laws or regulations prescribed 
thereunder, or knowingly presents any such application, affidavit, or 
other document containing any such false statement— 
"Shall be fined not more than $2,000 or imprisoned not more than 
five years, or both." 
(b) Chapter 69 of title 18, United States Code, is amended by add-
ing after section 1428 the following new section: 
"SEC. 1429. Penalties for neglect or refusal to answer subpena. 
"Any person who has been subpenaed under the provisions of sub-
section (e) of section 336 of the Immigration and Nationality Act to 
appear at the final hearing of a petition for naturalization, and who 
shall neglect or refuse to so appear and to testify, if in the power of 
such person to do so, shall be fined not more than $5,000 or imprisoned 
not more than five years, or both." 
(c) Section 1114 of title 18, United States Code, is amended by de-
leting the language "any immigrant inspector or any immigration 
patrol inspector" and by substituting therefor the language "any im-
migration officer". 
(d) Subsection (c) of section 8 of the Act of June 8,1938 (52 Stat. 
631; 22 U. S. C. 611-621), entitled "An Act to require the registration 
of certain persons employed by agencies to disseminate propaganda 
in the United States, and for other purposes", as amended, is hereby 
further amended by deleting the language "sections 19 and 20 of the 
Immigration Act of 1917 (39 Stat. 889, 890), as amended." and by 
substituting therefor the language "sections 241, 242, and 243 of the 
Immigration and Nationality Act." 
(e) Section 4 of the Act of June 30, 1950 (Public Law 597, Eighty-
first Congress, second session), entitled "An Act to provide for the 
enlistment of aliens in the regular army" is amended to read as fol-
lows: 
"SEC. 4. Notwithstanding the dates or periods of service specified and 
designated in section 329 of the Immigration and Nationality Act, the 
provisions of that section are applicable to aliens enlisted or reenlisted 
pursuant to the provisions of this Act and who have completed five 
or more years of military service, if honorably discharged therefrom. 
Any alien enlisted or reenlisted pursuant to the provisions of this Act 
who subsequently enters the United States, American Samoa, Swains 
Island, or the Canal Zone, pursuant to military orders shall, if other-
wise qualified for citizenship, and after completion of five or more 
years of military service, if honorably discharged therefrom, be 
deemed to have been lawfully admitted to the United States for per-
manent residence within the meaning of such section 329 (a)." 
(f) Section 201 of the Act of January 27, 1948 (Public Law 402, 
Eightieth Congress, second session, 62 Stat. 6) entitled "An Act to 
promote the better understanding of the United States among the 
peoples of the world and to strengthen cooperative international rela-
tions" is amended to read as follows: 
"SEC. 201. The Secretary is authorized to provide for interchanges 
on a reciprocal basis between the United States and other countries of 
students, trainees, teachers, guest instructors, professors, and leaders 
in fields of specialized knowledge or skill and shall wherever possible 
provide these interchanges by using the services of existing reputable 
agencies which are successfully engaged in such activity. The Secre-
tary may provide for orientation courses and other appropriate serv-
ices for such persons from other countries upon their arrival in the 
United States, and for such persons going to other countries from the 
United States. When any country fails or refuses to cooperate in 
such program on a basis of reciprocity the Secretary shall terminate 
or limit such program, with respect to such country, to the extent he 
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D e p o r t a t i o n 
authority. 
deems to be advisable in the interests of the United States. The persons persons*.^ * ^°" °^ 
specified in this section shall be admitted as nonimmigrants under 
section 101 (a) (15) of the Immigration and Nationality Act, for such 
t 
time and under such conditions as may be prescribed by regulations 
promulgated by the Secretary of State and the Attorney General. 
A person admitted under this section who fails to maintain the status 
under which he was admitted or who fails to depart from the United 
States at the expiration of the time for which he was admitted, or 
who engages in activities of a political nature detrimental to the 
interests of the United States, or in activities not consistent with the 
security of the United States, shall, upon the warrant of the Attorney 
General, be taken into custody and promptly deported pursuant to sec-
tions 241, 242, and 243 of the Immigration and Nationality Act. 
Deportation proceedings under this section shall be summary and the 
findings of the Attorney General as to matters of fact shall be con-
clusive. Such persons shall not be eligible for suspension of deporta-
tion under section 244 of the Immigration and Nationality Act." 
(g) Paragraph 7 of section 1 of the Act of February 4, 1887, as 
amended (24 Stat. 379; 54 Stat. 899; 62 Stat. 602; 49 U. S. C. 1 (7)), is 
further amended by deleting the words "immigration inspectors" and 
by substituting therefor the words "immigration officers". 
(h) (1) The first sentence of subsection (c) of section 3 of the Act soni^^Act'of ^ r 
of June 25,1948, as amended (62 Stat. 1009; 64 Stat. 219), is amended amendments, 
by deleting therefrom the language "from the immigration quota for note. 
^^^' ^^^^ 
the country of the alien's nationality as defined in section 12 of the 
Immigration Act of May 26,1924 (8 U. S. C. 212)" and by substituting 
therefor the language "from the annual quota to which an immigrant 
is chargeable as provided in section 202 of the Immigration and 
Nationality Act,". 
(2) The second proviso to subsection (c) of section 3 of the Act of 
June 25,1948, as amended (62 Stat. 1009; 64 Stat. 219), is amended by 
deleting the language "as defined in section 6 of the Act of May 26, 
1924, as amended (8 U. S. C. 206)," and by substituting therefor "as 
provided in section 203 (a) (4) of the Immigration and Nationality 
Act,". 
(3) The proviso to section 4 (a) of the Act of June 25, 1948, as 
amended, is amended by deleting the language "the immigration quota 
of the country of the alien's nationality as defined in section 12 of the 
Immigration Act of May 26, 1924," and by substituting therefor the 
language "the annual quota to which an immigrant is chargeable as 
provided in section 202 of the Immigration and Nationality Act,". 
(4) Section 5 of the Act of June 25, 1948, as amended (62 Stat. 
1009; Public Law 60, Eighty-second Congress), is amended to read 
as follows: 
"SEC. 5. The quota to which an alien is chargeable for the purposes 
of this Act shall be determined in accordance with the provisions of 
section 202 of the Immigration and Nationality Act and no eligible 
displaced person shall be issued an immigrant visa if he is known or 
believed by the consular officer to be subject to exclusion from the 
United States under any provision of the immigration laws, with the 
exception of section 212 (a) (14) of the Immigration and Nationality 
Act; and all eligible displaced persons, eligible displaced orphans and 
orphans under section 2 (f) shall be exempt from paying visa fees 
and head taxes." 
(5) Section 6 of the Act of June 25, 1948, as amended (62 Stat. 
1009; 64 Stat. 219), is further amended by deleting the language 
"section 6 of the Immigration Act of 1924, as amended (8 U. S. C. 
206)," and by substituting therefor the language "section 203 of the 
Immigration and Nationality Act,". The last sentence of section 6 
8 u s e 212. 
65 Stat. 96. 
50 u s e 
a p p , 
1954. 
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[66 S T A T . 
of the Act of June 25, 1948, is amended by deleting the language 
"sections 19 and 20 of the Immigration Act of February 5, 1917, as 
8 use 155, 156. amended." and by substituting therefor the language "sections 241, 
242, and 243 of the Immigration and Nationality Act." 
(6) The first sentence of subsection (a) of section 12 of the Act of 
' 
June 25, 1948, as amended (62 Stat. 1009; 64 Stat. 219), is amended 
by deleting the language "section 12 of the Act of May 26, 1924, as 
amended," and by substituting therefor the language "section 202 of 
the Immigration and Nationality Act,". Subsection (b) of section 12 
of the Act of June 25, 1948, as amended (62 Stat. 1009; 64 Stat. 219), 
is amended by deleting the language "section 11 (f) of the Immigra-
tion Act of May 26, 1924 (8 U. S. C. 211)," and by substituting there-
for the language "section 201 of the Immigration and Nationality 
Act,". Subsection (b) of section 12 of the Act of June 25, 1948, as 
amended, is amended by deleting the language "from the immigration 
quota of the country of nationality of the person who receives the visa 
as defined in section 12 of the Immigration Act of May 26, 1924 (8 
U. S. C. 212)" and by substituting therefor the language "from the 
annual quota to which the person who receives the visa is chargeable 
as provided in section 202 of the Immigration and Nationality Act". 
The last sentence of subsection (c) of section 12 of the Act of June 25, 
1948, as amended, is further amended to read as follows: 
"Those provisions of section 5 of this Act which relate to section 
212 (a) (14) of the Immigration and Nationality Act shall be ap-
plicable to persons whose admission is authorized under the provisions 
of this section." 
(i) (1) Section 1 of the Act of March 2, 1931 (46 Stat. 1467; 8 
U. S. C. 109a), is amended by deleting the word "inspectors" and by 
substituting therefor the words "immigration officers". 
(2) The Act of August 22, 1940 (54 Stat. 858; 8 U. S. C. 109c), is 
amended by deleting the word "inspectors" and by substituting there-
for the words "immigration officers". 
8^u^*c*723 note. 
(J) Public Law 114, Eiglity-secoud Congress, first session, is hereby 
amended to read as follows: 
u.^.^citiiJiil!'"'"*'' 
"That a person who, while a citizen of the United States, has lost 
citizenship of the United States solely by reason of having voted in a 
political election or plebiscite held in Italy between January 1, 1946, 
, ; 
and April 18, 1948, inclusive, and who has not subsequent to such 
voting committed any act which, had he remained a citizen, would 
have operated to expatriate him, may be naturalized by taking, prior 
to two years from the enactment of this Act, before any naturalization 
court specified in subsection (a) of section 310 of the Immigration 
and Nationality Act, or before any diplomatic or consular officer of 
the United States abroad, the oath required by section 337 of the 
Immigration and Nationality Act. Certified copies of such oath shall 
be sent by such diplomatic or consular officer or such court to the 
Department of State and to the Department of Justice. Such person 
shall have, from and after naturalization under this section, the same 
citizenship status as that which existed immediately prior to its loss: 
Provided^ That no such person shall be eligible to take the oath 
required by section 337 of the Immigration and Nationality Act unless 
he shall first take an oath before any naturalization court specified 
in subsection (a) of section 310 of the Immigration and Nationality 
Act, or before any diplomatic or consular officer of the United States 
abroad, that he has done nothing to promote the cause of communism. 
The illegal or fraudulent procurement of naturalization under this 
amendment shall be subject to cancellation in the same manner as 
provided in section 340 of the Immigration and Nationality Act. 
8 use 723. 
ug^^_ 2 Tj^g ^c^. (jf August 7. 1946 (Public Law 614; 60 Stat. 866), 
is hereby repealed." 
66 S T A T . ] 
PUBLIC LAW 4 1 4 - J U N E 27, 1952 
S^ 
:,, 
LAWS REPEALED 
SEC. 403. (a) The following Acts and all amendments thereto and 
]>arts of Acts and all amendments thereto are repealed: 
(1) Section 2164 of the Revised Statutes (8 U. S. C. 135) ; 
(2) Act of February 26,1885 (23 Stat. 332) ; 
» ^^c ui. 
(3) Second paragraph under the heading "Treasury Department" 
in Act of October 19, 1888 (25 Stat. 567; 8 U. S. C. 140); 
(4) Second and fourth sentences of section 7 of the Act of March 
3, 1891 (26 Stat. 1085; 8 U. S. C. 101) ; 
(5) Section 8 of Act of March 3,1893 (27 Stat. 570; 8 U. S. C. 172) ; 
(6) The last paragraph of section 10 of Act of April 30, 1900 (31 
Stat. 143; 48 U. S. C. 504) ; 
(7) Section 3 of Act of April 29,1902 (32 Stat. 177) ; 
(8) The proviso to the paragraph headed "Bureau of Immigration" 
under caption "Department of Commerce and Labor" in Act of Feb-
ruary 3,1905 (33 Stat. 684) ; 
(9) The proviso to the paragraph headed "Enforcement of Chinese 
Exclusion Act" under caption "Department of Commerce and Labor" 
in Act of March 3, 1905 (33 Stat. 1182) ; 
3i use 530. 
(10) Section 2 (e) of Act of February 9,1909 (35 Stat. 614; 42 Stat. 
596;21IT.S.C. 175); 
(11) The last proviso to the first paragraph headed "Expenses of 
Regulating Immigration" under caption "Department of Commerce 
and Labor" in the Act of March 4,1909 (35 Stat. 982; 8 U. S. C. 133) ; 
(12) The proviso to the first paragraph headed "Immigration Serv-
ice" under caption "Department of Commerce and Labor" in the Act of 
March 4,1911 (36 Stat. 1442); 
(13) Act of February 5,1917 (39 Stat. 874) ; 
« "sc 150 note. 
(14) Section 5b of Act of March 2, 1917 (39 Stat. 951; 48 Stat. 
1245; 48 11. S. C.733a-1); 
(15) Act of May 22,1918 (40 Stat. 559; 22 U. S. C. 223-226b); 
(16) Act of October 16,1918 (40 Stat. 1012; 8 U. S. C. 137) ; 
(17) Joint resolution of October 19,1918 (40 Stat. 1014) ; 
» use 136 note. 
(18) Act of May 10,1920 (41 Stat. 593; 8 U. S. C. 157); 
(19) Act of December 26,1920 (41 Stat. 1082; 8 U. S. C. 170) ; 
(20) The proviso to the paragraph headed "Expenses, Passport Con-
trol Act" in the Act of March 2,1921 (41 Stat. 1217; 22 U. S. C. 227); 
(21) Act of May 19,1921 (42 Stat. 5) ; 
(22) Joint resolution of December 27,1922 (42 Stat. 1065); 
(23) Act of Mav 26,1924 (43 Stat. 153); 
« "se 201. 
(24) Act of February 25,1925 (43 Stat. 976; 8 U. S. C. 202 (i)) ; 
(25) The last proviso to the paragraph headed "Bureau of Immi-
gration" in title IV of the Act of February 27, 1925 (43 Stat. 1049; 8 
U. S. C. 110) ; 
(26) Section 7 (d) of the Act of May 20, 1926 (44 Stat. 572; 49 
IT. S.C. 177(d)); 
(27) Act of May 26,1926 (44 Stat. 657; 8 U. S. C. 231) ; 
(28) Act of May 26, 1926 (44 Stat. 654; 8 U. S. C. 241-246) ; 
(29) Act of April 2, 1928 (45 Stat. 401; 8 U. S. C. 226a) ; 
(30) Act of March 4, 1929 (45 Stat. 1551; 8 U. S. C. 180-180d); 
(31) Actof February 18,1931 (46Stat. 1171; 8 U.S. C. 156a); 
(32) Act of March lY, 1932 (47 Stat. 67; 8 U. S. C. 137b-d) ; 
(33) Section 7 of Act of May 25,1932 (47 Stat. 166; 8 U. S. C. 181) ; 
(34) Act of July 2,1932 (47 Stat. 571; 8 U. S. C. 368b) ; 
(35) Sections 8 and 14 of the Act of March 24, 1934, as amended 
(48 Stat. 462; 48 U. S. C. 1238; 48 Stat. 464; 48 U. S. C. 1244); 
(36) Section 3 of the Act of May 14, 1937 (50 Stat. 165; 8 U. S. C. 
213a) ; 
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[66 STAT. 
(37) Act of August 19,1937 (50 Stat. 696, ch. 698); 
(38) Act of July 27, 1939 (53 Stat. 1133; 48 U. S. C. 1251-1257) ; 
(39) Title I I I of Act of June 28, 1940 (54 Stat. 673; 8 U. S. C. 
451^60) ; 
8 use 720a. 
(49) Act of July 2,1940 (54 Stat. 715-716^; 
(41) Section 2 of Act of August 16,1940 (54 Stat. 788); 
(42) Act of October 14,1940 (54 Stat. 1137); 
(43) Act of June 20, 1941 (55 Stat. 252; 22 U. S. C. 228, 229) ; 
(44) Section 2 of Act of December 17,1943 (57 Stat. 601; 8 U. S. C. 
212a); 
(45) Sections 4 and 5 of Act of July 2,1946 (60 Stat. 417; 8 U. S. C. 
212b, 212c); 
(46) Section 5 of the Act of May 31, 1947 (61 Stat. 122; 8 U. S. C. 
732a); 
(47) The paragraph headed "General provisions—Department of 
Justice" in Chapter I I I of the Supplemental Appropriation Act, 1951 
fu|c**i55°a*' 
(Public Law 843, Eighty-first Congress); 
fusc'ii7?9 i3> 
(^^) ^^^ ^^^ ^t March 28, 1951 (Public Law 14, Eighty-second 
10. 
' 
Congress, first session). 
(b) Except as otherwise provided in section 405, all other laws, or 
parts of laws, in conflict or inconsistent with this Act are, to the extent 
of such conflict or inconsistency, repealed. 
AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS 
SEC. 404. There are authorized to be appropriated such sums as may 
be necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act. 
SAVINGS CLAUSES 
SEC. 405. (a) Nothing contained in this Act, unless otherwise specifi-
cally provided therein, shall be construed to affect the validity of any 
.e)o/ Pv' .-' 
declaration of intention, petition for naturalization, certificate of 
naturalization, certificate of citizenship, warrant of arrest, order or 
warrant of deportation, order of exclusion, or other document or pro-
ceeding which shall be valid at the time this Act shall take effect; or to 
affect any prosecution, suit, action, or proceedings, civil or criminal, 
brought, or any status, condition, right in process of acquisition, act, 
thing, liability, obligation, or matter, civil or criminal, done or exist-
,j, 
ing, at the time this Act shall take effect; but as to all such prosecu-
tions, suits, actions, proceedings, statutes, conditions, rights, acts, 
things, liabilities, obligations, or matters the statutes or parts of 
statutes repealed by this Act are, unless otherwise specifically provided 
therein, hereby continued in force and effect. 
When an immigrant, 
in possession of an unexpired immigrant visa issued prior to the 
effective date of this Act, makes application for admission, his admis-
sibility shall be determined under the provisions of law in effect on 
the date of the issuance of such visa. An application for suspension 
|5y|tat.^ 889. 
of deportation under section 19 of the Immigration Act of 1917, as 
amended, or for adjustment of status under section 4 of the Displaced 
|2 st^t^^on. 
Persons Act of 1948, as amended, which is pending on the date of 
1953. 
* enactment of this Act, shall be regarded as a proceeding within the 
meaning of this subsection. 
(b) Except as otherwise specifically provided in title III, any peti-
tion for naturalization heretofore filed which may be pending at the 
time this Act shall take effect shall be heard and determined in accord-
ance with the requirements of law in effect when such petition was 
filed. 
(c) Except as otherwise specifically provided in this Act, the repeal 
of any statute by this Act shall not terminate nationality heretofore 
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) 
lawfully acquired nor restore nationality heretofore lost under any 
law of the United States or any treaty to which the United States may 
have been a party. 
(d) Except as otherwise specifically provided in this Act, or any 
amendment thereto, fees, charges and prices for purposes specified in 
title V of the Independent Offices Appropriation Act, 1952 (Public 
Law 137, Eighty-second Congress, approved August 31,1951), may be 
l^yjic'i^?' 
fixed and established in the manner and by the head of any Federal 
Agency as specified in that Act. 
(e) This Act shall not be construed to repeal, alter, or amend section 
231 (a) of the Act of April 30, 1946 (60 Stat. 148; 22 U. S. C. 1281 
(a)), the Act of June 20,1949 (Public Law 110, section 8, Eighty-first 
Congress, first session; 63 Stat. 208), the Act of June 5, 1950 (Public 
so use 403j. 
Law 535, Eighty-first Congi*ess, second session), nor title V of the Ag- 
22 use I's01 
ricultural Act of 1949, as amended (Public Law 78, Eighty-second ""gs'stat. 119. 
Congress, first session). 
1468^^^ i4 6i-
SEPARABILITY 
SEC. 406. If any particular provision of this Act, or the applica-
tion thereof to any person or circumstance, is held invalid, the remain-
der of the Act and the application of such provision to other persons 
or circumstances shall not be affected thereby. 
EFFECTIVE DATE 
SEC. 407. ExcqDt as provided in subsection (k) of section 401, this 
Act shall take effect at 12:01 ante meridian United States Eastern 
Standard Time on the one hundred eightieth day immediately follow-
ing the date of its enactment. 
Sam Rayburn 
Speaker 
of the House of 
Representatives. 
Alben W. 
Barkley 
Vice President 
of the United 
States 
and 
President 
of the 
Senate, 
In the House of Representatives, 
U.S. 
June 26, 
1952. 
The House of Representatives having proceeded 
to reconsider 
the bill 
(H. R. 
5678) entitled "An 
Act to revise 
the laws 
relating 
to 
immigration, 
naturalization, 
and nationality; and for other pur-
p o s e s , " returned by the President of the United States 
with his objections, to the House of Representatives, 
in which it originated, it was 
Resolved 
, That the said bill pass, two-thirds of 
the House of Representatives agreeing to pass the 
same. 
Attest: 
Ralph R Roberts 
Clerk. 
I certify that this Act originated in the House of 
Representatives. 
, , 
, 
. 
Ralph R Roberts 
Clerk. 
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In the Senate of the United S t a t e s , 
June 
27. 
1952. 
The 
Senate 
having 
p r o c e e d e d to r e c o n s i d e r 
the 
bill ( H . R . 5678) entitled " A n A c t to r e v i s e the l a w s 
r e l a t i n g 
to 
i m m i g r a t i o n , 
n a t u r a l i z a t i o n , 
and 
n a -
tionality; and for other p u r p o s e s " , r e t u r n e d by the 
P r e s i d e n t of the United S t a t e s with h i s o b j e c t i o n s , 
to the H o u s e of R e p r e s e n t a t i v e s , 
in w h i c h it o r i g -
inated, and p a s s e d by the H o u s e of R e p r e s e n t a t i v e s 
on r e c o n s i d e r a t i o n of the s a m e , it w a s 
Resolved 
, That 
the 
s a i d bill p a s s , t w o - t h i r d s of 
the S e n a t o r s p r e s e n t having v o t e d in the a f f i r m a t i v e . 
A t t e s t : 
L e s l i e L. Biffle 
Secretary. 
June 27, 1952 
[S.2610] 
Public Law 415 
CHAPTER 478 
AN ACT 
Providing tliat excess-land provisions of the Federal reclamation laws shall 
not apply to certain lands that will receive a supplemental or regulated water 
supply from the San Luis Valley project, Colorado. 
San Luis Valley 
project, Colo. 
Be it enacted l)y the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assemhled., That the excess-land 
provisions of the Federal reclamation laws shall not be applicable to 
lands or to the ownership of lands which receive a supplemental or 
regulated supply of w^ater from the San Luis Valley project, Colo-
rado: Provided., however., That, in lieu of the acreage limitations 
contained in such provisions, no landowner shall receive from such 
project a supplemental or regulated w'ater supply greater in quantity 
than that reasonably necessary to irrigate four hundred and eighty 
acres of land served by such project: Provided further., That the pro-
visions of this Act are intended to meet the special conditions exist-
ing on the lands served or to be served by the San Luis Valley project, 
Colorado, and shall not be considered as altering the general policy 
of the United States with respect to the excess-land provisions of the 
Federal reclamation laws. 
Approved June 27, 1952. 
June 28, 1952 
[S. 677] 
Public Law 416 
CHAPTER 479 
AN ACT 
To fix the personnel strength of the United States Marine Corps, and to establish 
the relationship of the Commandant of the Marine Corps to the Joint Chiefs 
of Staff. 
Marine Corps. 
P 
e r s o n n e l 
strength. 
61 Stat. 502. 
5 u s e 411a. 
5 u s e 171f. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assemhled., That the first sen-
tence of section 206 (c) of the National Security Act of 1947 is hereby 
amended to read as follows: "The United States Marine Corps, within 
the Department of the Navy, shall be so organized as to include not 
less than three combat divisions and three air w'ings, and such other 
land combat, aviation, and other services as may be organic therein, 
and except in time of war or national emergency hereafter declared 
by the Congress the personnel strength of the Regular Marine Corps 
shall be maintained at not more than four hundred thousand." 
SEC. 2. Section 211 (a) of the National Security Act of 1947 (61