Title 8 — Aliens and Nationality
Part I · Chapter 12 — Immigration and Nationality
§ 1402. Persons born in Puerto Rico on or after April 11, 1899
Statutory text
All persons born in Puerto Rico on or after , and prior to , subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, residing on , 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 declared to be citizens of the United States as of . All persons born in Puerto Rico on or after , and subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, are citizens of the United States at birth.
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.
Pub. L. 82–477 · 66 Stat. 609
Enacted · 8 U.S.C. § 1402
(June 27, 1952, ch. 477, title III, ch. 1, § 302, 66 Stat. 236.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(June 27, 1952, ch. 477, title III, ch. 1, § 302, 66 Stat. 236.)
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Credits
(June 27, 1952, ch. 477, title III, ch. 1, § 302, 66 Stat. 236.)