8-U.S.C.-1453

§1453 – Cancellation of Certificates Issued By Attorney General, The Commissioner Or A Deputy Commissioner; Action Not to Affect Citizenship Status

Pathway

Title 8 > Chapter 12 > Subchapter III > Part II > Section 1453

Details

• Reference: Section 1453
• Legend: §1453 – Cancellation of Certificates Issued By Attorney General, The Commissioner Or A Deputy Commissioner; Action Not to Affect Citizenship Status
• USCode Year: 2013

Provision Content

The Attorney General is authorized to cancel any certificate of citizenship, certificate of naturalization, copy of a declaration of intention, or other certificate, document or record heretofore issued or made by the Commissioner or a Deputy Commissioner or hereafter made by the Attorney General if it shall appear to the Attorney Generals satisfaction that such document or record was illegally or fraudulently obtained from, or was created through illegality or by fraud practiced upon, him or the Commissioner or a Deputy Commissioner; but the person for or to whom such document or record has been issued or made shall be given at such persons last-known place of address written notice of the intention to cancel such document or record with the reasons therefor and shall be given at least sixty days in which to show cause why such document or record should not be canceled. The cancellation under this section of any document purporting to show the citizenship status of the person to whom it was issued shall affect only the document and not the citizenship status of the person in whose name the document was issued.

(June 27, 1952, ch. 477, title III, ch. 2, §342, 66 Stat. 263.)

Effective Date

Section effective 180 days after June 27, 1952, see section 407 of act June 27, 1952, set out as a note under section 1101 of this title.

Abolition of Immigration and Naturalization Service and Transfer of Functions

For abolition of Immigration and Naturalization Service, transfer of functions, and treatment of related references, see note set out under section 1551 of this title.

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