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