Volume 68
Public Law 83–772
To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to provide for the loss of nationality of persons convicted of certain crimes.
Approved September 3, 1954
Statutory text
AN ACT
To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to provide for the loss of nationality of persons convicted of certain crimes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That this Act may be cited as the “Expatriation Act of 1954”.
Sec. 2.
Paragraph (9) of subsection (a) of section 349 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (66 Stat. 163, 268; 8 U. S. C. 1481 (a) (9)) is amended to read as follows:
“(9) committing any act of treason against, or attempting by force to overthrow, or bearing arms against, the United States, violating or conspiring to violate any of the provisions of section
2383 of title 18, United States Code, or willfully performing any act in violation of section 2385 of title 18, United States Code, or violating section 2384 of said title by engaging in a conspiracy to overthrow, put down, or to destroy by force the Government of the United States, or to levy war against them, if and when he is convicted thereof by a court martial or by a court of competent jurisdiction; or”.
Approved September 3, 1954.