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Title 22 — Foreign Relations and Intercourse

Chapter 4 — Passports

§ 212. Persons entitled to passport

Statutory text

No passport shall be granted or issued to or verified for any other persons than those owing allegiance, whether citizens or not, to the United States.

Legislative history

Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.

  1. R.S. § 4076

    Enacted · 22 U.S.C. § 212

    R.S. § 4076

    Unresolved: No Public Law or Statutes at Large citation in the Code source.

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    R.S. § 4076

0 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 1 unresolved

Editorial Notes

Codification

R.S. § 4076 derived from act May 30, 1866, ch. 102, 14 Stat. 54.

Amendments

1902—Act , substituted “those owing allegiance, whether citizens or not, to the United States” for “citizens of the United States”.

Credits

1902 · 2 acts
  1. R.S. § 4076
  2. 1902June 14, 1902, ch. 1088, § 2, 32 Stat. 386.
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(R.S. § 4076; June 14, 1902, ch. 1088, § 2, 32 Stat. 386.)

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