UNITED STATES OF AMERICA SEP 18 '34 CONTENTS Page I. Miscellaneous information of general interest 1 II. Expatriation of American citizens and the presumption of cessation of citizenship...---. III. Status of American citizens in countries with the governments of which the United States has concluded naturalization treaties__ Austria... Belgium... Bulgaria.. Czechoslovakia_. Denmark.. Germany Hungary Norway. Portugal... Sweden.... IV. Status of American citizens in certain countries with the governments of which the United States has not concluded naturalization treaties... Albania Estonia... PASSPORTS WARNING.-A naturalized citizen should read carefully section II and those parts of sections III or IV which relate to the country of which he was originally a national. Persons born in the United States of alien parents should also read these sections with care. CHINA. The attention of persons proceeding to China is especially called to paragraphs 9, 10, 11, and 12. MONEY REGULATIONS.-Special attention is called to paragraph 8, particularly as to regulations governing the money which travelers may bring into and out of the countries they expect to visit. I. MISCELLANEOUS INFORMATION OF GENERAL INTEREST 1. Signature.-The signature of the person to whom a passport is issued should be affixed in the places indicated therein immediately upon its receipt. The passport is not valid unless it has been signed. The bearer should also fill in the blank spaces on the inside cover of the passport. 2. Loss, destruction, or mutilation of passport.-A passport, whether valid or expired, is an important document. It should not be allowed to pass into the possession of an unauthorized person. 3. The loss, destruction, or mutilation of a valid passport should be reported immediately to the Passport Division, Department of State, Washington, D. C., or to the nearest American consular officer. 4. As a rule, new passports can be issued in such cases only after an exhaustive inquiry. 5. The application for a new passport to replace a valid passport which has been lost, destroyed, or mutilated must be accompanied by a detailed statement, in the form of an affidavit, of the circumstances under which the passport was lost, destroyed, or mutilated. 6. Passports may be amended to include or to exclude the American wife and American minor children of the person to whom issued, upon the written request of the bearer. The passport agents in Boston, New York, Chicago, New Orleans, and San Francisco have authority to amend passports. Passports may also be amended by American con sular officers and, in the absence thereof, by American diplomatic officers; and they may be amended by the chief executives of the insular possessions of the United States. 7. Passports, unless expressly limited to particular countries, are valid for all countries. Consequently no amendments to include specified countries will be necessary. 8. Regulations of foreign governments.-Passport and other travel regulations of foreign governments vary and are subject to changes. They also vary with respect to the outlying dominions, colonies, mandated territories, or dependencies of foreign countries. For authentic information regarding such regulations, inquiry should be made, before leaving the United States, of the diplomatic or consular representatives of the countries to be visited with reference to the following subjects: visas; import and export regulations relating to money, jewelry, and other valuables; tobacco, cigarettes, and cigars; and baggage, photography tax, travel, residence, health, vaccination, and employment regulations. 9. Passports for China.-The usual visa for entry into China should be |