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Title 8 — Aliens and Nationality

Part II · Chapter 12 — Immigration and Nationality

§ 1422. Eligibility for naturalization

Statutory text

The right of a person to become a naturalized citizen of the United States shall not be denied or abridged because of race or sex or because such person is married.

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. § 1422

    June 27, 1952, ch. 477, title III, ch. 2, § 311, 66 Stat. 239

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    June 27, 1952, ch. 477, title III, ch. 2, § 311, 66 Stat. 239

  2. Immigration Technical Corrections Act of 1988

    Pub. L. 100–525 § 9(t) · 102 Stat. 2609

    Struck · 8 U.S.C. § 1422

    Pub. L. 100–525 struck out at end “Notwithstanding section 405(b) of this Act, this section shall apply to any person whose petition for naturalization shall hereafter be filed, or shall have been pending on the effective date of this chapter.”

    Source evidence

    Code amendment note
    Pub. L. 100–525 struck out at end “Notwithstanding section 405(b) of this Act, this section shall apply to any person whose petition for naturalization shall hereafter be filed, or shall have been pending on the effective date of this chapter.”

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    (t) Section 311 of such Act (8 U.S.C. 1422) is amended by striking the last sentence.

1 of 2 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 1 partial

Editorial Notes

Amendments

1988—Pub. L. 100–525 struck out at end “Notwithstanding section 405(b) of this Act, this section shall apply to any person whose petition for naturalization shall hereafter be filed, or shall have been pending on the effective date of this chapter.”

Credits

1952–1988 · 2 acts
  1. 1952June 27, 1952, ch. 477, title III, ch. 2, § 311, 66 Stat. 239
  2. 1988Pub. L. 100–525, § 9(t), , 102 Stat. 2621.
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(June 27, 1952, ch. 477, title III, ch. 2, § 311, 66 Stat. 239; Pub. L. 100–525, § 9(t), , 102 Stat. 2621.)

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