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Title 8 — Aliens and Nationality

Part I · Chapter 12 — Immigration and Nationality

§ 1405. Persons born in Hawaii

Statutory text

A person born in Hawaii on or after , and before , is declared to be a citizen of the United States as of . A person born in Hawaii on or after , is a citizen of the United States at birth. A person who was a citizen of the Republic of Hawaii on , is declared to be a citizen of the United States as of .

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. § 1405

    (June 27, 1952, ch. 477, title III, ch. 1, § 305, 66 Stat. 237.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (June 27, 1952, ch. 477, title III, ch. 1, § 305, 66 Stat. 237.)

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Executive Documents

Admission of Hawaii as State

Hawaii Statehood provisions as not repealing, amending, or modifying the provisions of this section, see section 20 of Pub. L. 86–3, , 73 Stat. 13, set out as a note at the beginning of chapter 3 of Title 48, Territories and Insular Possessions.

Credits

(June 27, 1952, ch. 477, title III, ch. 1, § 305, 66 Stat. 237.)

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