this section, as amended, takes effect, unless she makes a formal renunciation of her citizenship before a court having jurisdiction over naturalization of aliens. "(b) Any woman who before this section, as amended, takes effect, has lost her United States citizenship by residence abroad after marriage to an alien or by marriage to an alien ineligible to citizenship may, if she has not acquired any other nationality by affirmative act, be naturalized in the manner prescribed in section 4 of this Act, as amended. Any woman who was a citizen of the United States at birth shall not be denied naturalization under section 4 on account of her race. "(c) No woman shall be entitled to naturalization under section 4 of this Act, as amended, if her United States citizenship originated solely by reason of her marriage to a citizen of the United States or by reason of the acquisition of United States citizenship by her husband." (b) Section 5 of such Act of September 22, 1922, is repealed. Approved, March 3, 1931. [H. R. 6477] AN ACT To further amend the naturalization laws, and for other purposes: Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That (a) an alien veteran, as defined in section 1 of the Act of May 26, 1926 (ch. 398, 44 Stat. 654; title 8, sec. 241, U. S. C., Supp. 1), shall, if residing in the United States, be entitled at any time within two years after the enactment of this Act to naturalization upon the same terms, conditions, and exemptions which would have been accorded to such alien if he had petitioned before the armistice of the World War, except that (1) such alien shall be required to prove that immediately preceding the date of his petition he has resided continuously within the United States for at least two years, in pursuance of a legal admission for permanent residence, and that during all such period he has behaved as a person of good moral character; (2) if such admission was subsequent to March 3, 1924, such alien shall file with his petition a certificate of arrival issued by the Commissioner of Naturalization; (3) final action shall not be had upon the petition until at least ninety days have elapsed after filing of such petition; and (4) such alien shall be required to appear and file his petition in person, and to take the prescribed oath of allegiance in open court. Such residence and good moral character shall be proved either by the affidavits of two credible witnesses who are citizens of the United States, or by depositions by two such witnesses made before a naturalization examiner, for each place of residence. (b) All petitions for citizenship made outside the United States in accordance with the seventh subdivision of section 4 of the Naturalization Act of June 29, 1906, as amended, upon which naturalization has not been heretofore granted, are hereby declared to be invalid for all purposes. SEC. 2. (a) The seventh subdivision of section 4 of the Naturalization Act of June 29, 1906, as amended, is amended by striking out "the National Guard or Naval Militia of any State, Territory, or the District of Columbia, or the State militia in Federal service,". (b) This section shall not be applied in the case of any individual whose petition for naturalization has been filed before the enactment of this Act. SEC. 3. The last proviso in the first paragraph of the seventh subdivision of section 4 of such Act of June 29, 1906, as amended, is amended by striking out the period at the end thereof and inserting in lieu thereof a semicolon and the following: "except that this proviso shall not apply in the case of service on American-owned vessels by an alien who has been lawfully admitted to the United States for permanent residence." SEC. 4. Section 32 of such Act of June 29, 1906, as amended, is amended by adding at the end thereof the following new subdivisions: "(c) If the name of any naturalized citizen has, subsequent to naturalization, been changed by order of a court of competent jurisdiction, or by marriage, the citizen may, upon the payment to the commissioner of a fee of $10, make application (accompanied by two photographs of the applicant) for a new certificate of citizenship in the new name of such citizen. If the commissioner finds the name of the applicant to have been changed as claimed he shall issue to the applicant a new certificate with one of such photographs of the applicant affixed thereto. (d) The Commissioner of Naturalization is authorized to make and issue, without fee, certifications of any part of the naturalization records of any court, or of any certificate of citizenship, for use in complying with any statute, State or Federal, or in any judicial proceeding. Any such certification shall be admitted in evidence equally with the original from which such certification was made in any case in which the original thereof might be admissible as evidence. No such certification shall be made by any clerk of court except upon order of the court." SEC. 5. So much of subdivision (a) of section 33 of such Act of June 29, 1906, as amended, as reads "Upon obtaining a certificate from the Secretary of Labor showing the date, place, and manner of arrival in the United States," is hereby repealed. SEC. 6. Section 4 of the Act entitled "An Act to supplement the naturalization laws, and for other purposes," approved March 2, 1929, is amended by striking out the period at the end thereof and inserting in lieu thereof a semicolon and the following: "except that no such certificate shall be required if the entry was on or before June 29, 1906." SEC. 7. Despite the provisions of subdivision (a) of section 1 of the Act entitled "An Act making it a felony with penalty for certain aliens to enter the United States of America under certain conditions in violation of law," approved March 4, 1929, as amended, an alien, if otherwise admissible, shall not be excluded from admission to the United States under the provisions of such subdivision after the expiration of one year after the date of deportation if, prior to his reembarkation at a place outside of the United States, or prior to his application in foreign contiguous territory for admission to the United States, the Secretary of Labor, in his discretion, shall have granted such alien permission to reapply for admission. SEC. 8. The compilation of the statistics to show races, nationalities, and other information, authorized and directed to be prepared by the Commissioner of Naturalization, shall be completed and published at the same time, as near as practicable, as the publication of the statistics of the 1930 census; except that reports covering the census of 1910 shall be completed and submitted not later than January 31, 1933, and reports covering the census of 1920 not later than December 31, 1933. Such statistics shall show the records. of registry made under the provisions of the Act entitled "An Act to supplement the naturalization laws, and for other purposes,' approved March 2, 1929. Payment for the equipment used in preparing such compilation shall be made from appropriations for miscellaneous expenses of the Bureau of Naturalization. 99 SEC. 9. The Secretary of the Treasury, upon the recommendation of the Secretary of Labor, is authorized to provide quarters, without payment of rent, in the building occupied by the Naturalization Service in New York City, for a photographic studio operated by welfare organizations without profit and solely for the benefit of aliens seeking naturalization. Such studio shall be under the supervision of the Commissioner of Naturalization. SEC. 10. The tenth subdivision of section 4 of the Act of June 29, 1906 (ch. 3592, 34 Stat. 598), as amended by the Act of May 9, 1918 (ch. 69, 40 Stat. 545; U. S. C., title 8, sec. 377), is hereby amended to read as follows: "Tenth. That any person not an alien enemy, who resided uninterruptedly within the United States during the period of five years next preceding July 1, 1920, and was on that date otherwise qualified to become a citizen of the United States, except that he had not made a declaration of intention required by law and who during or prior to that time, because of misinformation regarding his citizenship status erroneously exercised the rights and performed the duties of a citizen of the United States in good faith, may file the petition for naturalization prescribed by law without making the preliminary declaration of intention required of other aliens, and upon satisfactory proof to the court that he has so acted may be admitted as a citizen of the United States upon complying in all respects with the other requirements of the naturalization law." Approved, May 25, 1932. [S. 4425] AN ACT Relating to the immigration and naturalization of certain natives of the Virgin Islands. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That a native of the Virgin Islands of the United States who is now residing in any foreign country shall for the purpose of the Immigration Act of 1924, as amended, be considered as a nonquota immigrant for the purposes of admission to the United States; but shall be subject to all the other provisions of that Act and of the immigration laws, except that (a) He shall not be subject to the head tax imposed by section 2 of the Immigration Act of 1917; (b) He shall not be required to have a passport or immigration visa; (c) If otherwise admissible, he shall not be excluded under section 3 of the Immigration Act of 1917, unless excluded under the provisions of that section relating to (1) Persons afflicted with a loathsome or dangerous contagious disease; (2) Polygamy; (3) Prostitutes, procurers, or other like immoral persons; (5) Persons previously deported; or (6) Persons convicted of crime. SEC. 2. The foregoing provisions of this Act shall not apply to any such alien after the expiration of two years following the enactment of this Act. SEC. 3. An alien admitted to the United States under this Act shall not be subject to deportation on the ground that he has become a public charge. SEC. 4. Terms defined in the Immigration Act of 1924, as amended, shall, when used in this Act, have the meaning assigned to such terms in that Act. SEC. 5. Section 1 of the Act entitled "An Act to confer United States citizenship upon certain inhabitants of the Virgin Islands and to extend the naturalization laws thereto," approved February 25, 1927, is amended by adding at the end thereof the following: "(d) All natives of the Virgin Islands of the United States who are, on the date of enactment of this subdivision, residing in continental United States, the Virgin Islands of the United States, Puerto Rico, the Canal Zone, or any other insular possession or Territory of the United States, who are not citizens or subjects of any foreign country, regardless of their place of residence on January 17, 1917." Approved, June 28, 1932. |