Volume 72 · 688
Public Law 85–697
To facilitate the naturalization of adopted children and spouses of certain United States citizens performing religious duties abroad.
Approved August 20, 1958
Statutory text
AN ACT
To facilitate the naturalization of adopted children and spouses of certain United States citizens performing religious duties abroad.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That section 11 of
Naturalization.
Children and spouses.
the Act of September 11, 1957 (71 Stat. 642) be amended by adding the following immediately after the words “by treaty or statute”: “or is authorized to perform the ministerial or priestly functions of a religious denomination having a bona fide organization within the United States, or is engaged solely as a missionary by a religious denomination or by an interdenominational mission organization having a bona fide organization within the United States”.
Sec. 2.
Subsection (b) of section 319 of the Immigration and
Nationality Act is hereby amended by adding the following immediately after the words “by treaty or statute,”: “or is authorized to per-form the ministerial or priestly functions of a religious denomination having a bona fide organization within the United States, or is engaged solely as a missionary by a religious denomination or by an interdenominational mission organization having a bona fide organization within the United States,”.
Approved August 20, 1958.