AMENDMENT TO SELECTIVE SERVICE REGULATIONS

622.43 Class IV-C: Neutral aliens requesting relief from liability and unacceptable alien enemies. (a) In Class IV-C shall be placed any registrant, not a national of the United States, who is:

(1) A citizen or subject of a neutral country who, prior to his induction into the land or naval forces, has made application to be relieved from liability for training and service in the land or naval forces of the United States by filing with the local board an Application by Alien for Relief from Military Service (Form 301); or

(2) A citizen or subject of any country who has been or who may hereafter be proclaimed by the President to be an alien enemy of the United States, unless he is acceptable to the land or naval forces.

(b) Any registrant who claims to be a citizen or subject of a neutral country or to be a citizen or subject of any country who has been or who may hereafter be proclaimed by the President to be an alien enemy of the United States must submit proof of such status to the local board in the form of a birth certificate, entry permit, alien registration certificate, or other information required by the local board.

(c) When a citizen or subject of a neutral country who is liable for training and service prior to his induction into the land or naval forces files an Application by Alien for Relief from Military Service (Form 301), he is thereafter debarred from becoming a citizen of the United States. If a registrant desires to make such application, he shall execute and file two copies of the Application by Alien for Relief from Military Service (Form 301). The original of the Application by Alien for Relief from Military Service (Form 301) shall be transmitted through the State Director of Selective Service to the Immigration and Naturalization Service of the Department of Justice for its files, and the remaining copy shall be retained in the registrant's Cover Sheet (Form 53).

(d) If a registrant is a national of the United States but also contends that he is a citizen or subject of a neutral country or an alien enemy, such contention shall be disregarded and he shall be classified without regard thereto.

(e) Whenever the local board has a perplexing case, it should request assistance through State Headquarters for Selective Service from the Immigration and Naturalization Service.1 (54 Stat. 885; 50 U. S. C., Sup., 301-318 inclusive, E. O. No. 845, 5 F. R. 3779.)

1 See §§ 2 and 3, Selective Training and Service Act of Sept. 16, 1940 (54 Stat. 885; Public Law 360, 77th Congress, 50 U. S. S. 302, 303), p. 354.

CONTROL OF AMERICAN CITIZENS AND NATIONALS ENTERING AND LEAVING THE UNITED STATES

Laws, proclamations, and regulations as of October 26, 1943

AN ACT TO PREVENT IN TIME OF WAR DEPARTURE FROM AND ENTRY INTO THE UNITED STATES CONTRARY TO THE PUBLIC SAFETY

Act approved May 22, 1918, as amended, incorporated at page 75

PRESIDENT'S PROCLAMATION NO. 2523 OF NOVEMBER 14, 1941

country or territory in the Western Hemisphere under the jurisdiction of Great Britain in which the United States maintains defense bases or in which such bases are being constructed by or under contract with the Government of the United States, unless he bears a valid passport for such travel issued by or under authority of the Secretary of State or is otherwise authorized by the Secretary of State to depart from any territory subject to the jurisdiction of the United States for any foreign territory mentioned in this section.

58.2 Limitations upon travel after January 15, 1942. After 6 o'clock in the forenoon of January 15, 1942, no citizen of the United States or person who owes allegiance to the United States shall depart from or enter into or attempt to depart from or enter into the continental United States, the Canal Zone, the Commonwealth of the Philippines, and all territories, continental or insular, subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, unless he bears a valid passport which has been issued by or under authority of the Secretary of State and which, in the case of a person entering or attempting to enter any such territory, has been verified by an American diplomatic or consular officer either in the foreign country from which he started his journey, or in the foreign country in which he was last present if such country is not the one from which he started his journey, or unless he comes within one of the exceptions prescribed in Sš 58.3–58.4. No fee shall be collected by a diplomatic or consular officer of the United States for or in connection with such verification.

58.3 Exceptions to regulations in $8 58.1-58.2. No valid passport shall be required of a citizen of the United States or a person who owes allegiance to the United States :

(a) When traveling between the continental United States and the Territory of Hawaii, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands, or between any such places; or

(b) When traveling between points in the continental United States and points in Canada: Provided, That this exception shall not be applicable to any such person when traveling to or arriving from a place outside the continental United States via Canada for which a valid passport is required under the regulations in this part; or

(c) When traveling between points in the continental United States and points in Mexico: Provided, That this exception shall not be applicable to any such person when traveling to or arriving from a place outside the continental United States via Mexico for which a valid passport is required under the regulations in this part; or (d) When traveling between points in the Virgin Islands of

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*As restored effective October 5, 1943 (8 F. R. 18553, October 6, 1943). 8 58.3 (d) originally read as follows: "(d) When traveling between the continental United States or Puerto Rico or the Virgin Islands and islands adjacent to Canada or the United States or the islands of the West Indies, including the Bahamas, except any such island as is subject to the jurisdiction