Amendments to the Naturalization Laws: Hearings Before the Committee on Immigration and Naturalization, House of Representatives, Sixty-fifth Congress, Second Session, on H. R. 10694 |
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Page 35 - That it shall be the duty of the United States district attorneys for the respective districts, upon affidavit showing good cause therefor, to institute proceedings in any court having jurisdiction to naturalize aliens in the judicial district in which the naturalized citizen may reside at the time of bringing the suit, for the purpose of setting aside and canceling the certificate of citizenship on the ground of fraud or on the ground that such certificate of citizenship was illegally procured.
Page 30 - The petition shall also be verified by the affidavits of at least two credible witnesses, who are citizens of the United States...
Page 68 - States, be considered as citizens thereof ; and the children of persons who now- are, or have been citizens of the United States, shall, though born out of the limits and jurisdiction of the United States...
Page 7 - Federal service, or in the United States Navy or Marine Corps, or in the United States Coast Guard, or who has served for three years on board of any vessel of the United States...
Page 36 - ... declaration of intention to become a citizen, be admitted a citizen of the United States; and every seaman being a foreigner, shall, after his declaration of intention to become a citizen of the United States, and after he shall have served...
Page 36 - States for the purpose of serving on board any such merchant or fishing vessel of the United States, anything to the contrary in any act of Congress notwithstanding; but such seaman shall, for all purposes of protection as an American citizen, be deemed such after filing of his declaration of intention to become such citizen...
Page 68 - That all children born outside the limits of the United States who are citizens thereof in accordance with the provisions of section nineteen hundred and ninety-three of the Revised Statutes of the United States and who continue to reside outside the United States shall, in order to receive the protection of this Government, be required upon reaching the age of eighteen years to record at an American consulate their intention to become residents and remain citizens of the United States and shall...
Page 36 - Provided further, That service by aliens upon vessels other than of American registry, whether continuous or broken, shall not be considered as residence for naturalization purposes within the jurisdiction of the United States, and such aliens can not secure residence for naturalization purposes during service upon vessels of foreign registry.
Page 68 - States, whose fathers were or may be at the time of their birth citizens thereof, are declared to be citizens of the United States; but the rights of citizenship shall not descend to children whose fathers never resided in the United States." 2. 48 Stat. 797. "Any child hereafter born out of the limits and jurisdiction of the United States...
Page 9 - America for the year nineteen hundred and three, and all acts or parts of acts inconsistent with or repugnant to the provisions of this act are hereby repealed.