Volume 54 · 716
Public Law 76–512
To permit certain aliens whose childhood was spent in the United States, if eligible to citizenship, to become naturalized without filing declaration of intention.
Approved July 2, 1940
Statutory text
AN ACT
To permit certain aliens whose childhood was spent in the United States, if eligible to citizenship, to become naturalized without filing declaration of intention.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That any alien who at the time of entering the United States is less than sixteen years of age may upon attaining the age of twenty-one years, if eligible to citizenship, be naturalized upon full and complete compliance with
Exceptions to requirements.
all the requirements of the naturalization laws, subject to the following exceptions:
(a) Declaration of intention.
No declaration of intention shall be required; and
(b) Time for filing petition.
The petition for naturalization shall be filed, within one year after such alien attains the age of twenty-one years.
Sec. 2.
Nothing in this Act shall be construed as preventing its application to aliens who entered the United States prior to its enactment.
Approved, July 2, 1940.