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Title 8 — Aliens and Nationality

Part I · Chapter 12 — Immigration and Nationality

§ 1404. Persons born in Alaska on or after March 30, 1867

Statutory text

A person born in Alaska on or after , except a noncitizen Indian, is a citizen of the United States at birth. A noncitizen Indian born in Alaska on or after , and prior to , is declared to be a citizen of the United States as of . An Indian born in Alaska on or after , is a citizen 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.

  1. Pub. L. 82–477 · 66 Stat. 609

    Enacted · 8 U.S.C. § 1404

    (June 27, 1952, ch. 477, title III, ch. 1, § 304, 66 Stat. 237.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (June 27, 1952, ch. 477, title III, ch. 1, § 304, 66 Stat. 237.)

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Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Admission of Alaska as State

Alaska Statehood provisions as not repealing, amending, or modifying the provisions of this section, see section 24 of Pub. L. 85–508, , 72 Stat. 339, set out as a note preceding former section 21 of Title 48, Territories and Insular Possessions.

Credits

(June 27, 1952, ch. 477, title III, ch. 1, § 304, 66 Stat. 237.)

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