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    The Nationality Act of 1940 (H.R. 9980; Pub.L. 76-853; 54 Stat. 1137) revised numerous provisions of law relating to American citizenship and naturalization...
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    in foreign relations. The Nationality Act of 1940 greatly expanded the list of acts regarded as criteria for a finding of voluntary expatriation. The...
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    nationals. Since passage of the Nationality Act of 1940, non-citizen nationals may transmit their non-citizen U.S. nationality to children born abroad...
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    Nationality Act of 1940 when the question of dual citizenship arose. This act was an attempt by Congress to resolve issues related to the status of citizenship...
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  • the Jones Act in 1940 extending US nationality to foreigners who had permanent residency in Puerto Rico. That year the Nationality Act of 1940 codified...
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  • combining the Bureau of Immigration and the Bureau of Naturalization. The Nationality Act of 1940 was passed to create a unified code of United States naturalization...
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  • Fourteenth Amendment and the Immigration and Nationality Act a person born within and subject to the jurisdiction of the United States automatically acquires...
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    part of the Department of Labor in 1933, and in 1940 was moved under the Department of Justice along with the Nationality Act of 1940. During the 1940s the...
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    The Cable Act of 1922 (ch. 411, 42 Stat. 1021, "Married Women's Independent Nationality Act") was a United States federal law that partially reversed...
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    the Nationality Act of 1940. It was modified by the Immigration Act of 1990. The legislation established the federal government as the arbiter of naturalization...
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  • nationality that qualified to be brought to the United States under the act. The act was well supported and easily passed because family members of servicemen...
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    work of national importance under civilian direction was added by the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952. The current text of the Oath of Citizenship...
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    requested that legislation on the citizenship of Samoans be curtailed for ten years. The US Nationality Act of 1940 provided that American Samoans, born to...
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    Service Act of 1940, also known as the Burke–Wadsworth Act, Pub. L.Tooltip Public Law (United States) 76–783, 54 Stat. 885, enacted September 16, 1940, was...
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    Afroyim v. Rusk (category Wikipedia articles incorporating text from public domain works of the United States Government)
    lost his citizenship under the provisions of the Nationality Act of 1940. A letter certifying Afroyim's loss of citizenship was issued by the Immigration...
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  • Trop v. Dulles (category United States Supreme Court cases of the Warren Court)
    forfeiture of pay, and a dishonorable discharge. In 1952, Trop applied for a passport, which was denied because the Nationality Act of 1940 provided that...
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    following item to the list of actions in Nationality Act of 1940 § 401 (8 U.S.C. § 801) which would result in loss of nationality by a United States citizen...
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    Expatriation Act of 1868 The Expatriation Act of 1868 was an act of the 40th United States Congress that declared, as part of the United States nationality law...
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  • services by the Immigration and Nationality Act. In fiscal year 2020, USCIS had a budget of US$4.85 billion; 97.3% of it was funded by fees and 2.7% by...
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  • immigration and nationality laws are codified in Title 8 of the United States Code. History of immigration to the United States History of laws concerning...
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  • 1899; under the terms of the Organic Act, as it has been amended over time; or under provisions of the Nationality Act of 1940 or 1952 through a parent...
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  • under provisions of Section 339 of the 1940 Act. Subsequently, the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952, codified under Title 8 of the United States...
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    has original text related to this article: Civil Rights Act of 1866 The Civil Rights Act of 1866 (14 Stat. 27–30, enacted April 9, 1866, reenacted 1870)...
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  • Supreme Court in 1940 after 2,190 Filipinos had returned to the Philippines. It was succeeded by the Nationality Act of 1940. History of the Philippines...
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    established by the Nationality Act of 1940. In 1952, Puerto Rico adopted a new constitution which designated it as the "Commonwealth of Puerto Rico". Today...
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    to the Office of the Assistant Legal Adviser for Consular Affairs". From September 22, 1922, to the passage of Nationality Act of 1940, a woman holding...
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    American Civics Test (category Citizenship of the United States)
    Naturalization Act, passed by Congress on June 29, 1906, established the Bureau of Immigration and Naturalization, which oversaw national standardization of citizenship...
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  • British Nationality Bill during its passage through Parliament. The British Nationality and Status of Aliens Act 1914 The British Nationality Act 1948 The...
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    modified by later laws, such as the Nationality Act of 1940. In 1934, the Tydings–McDuffie Act provided independence of the Philippines on July 4, 1946....
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    by the end of the war. The United States recognized and affirmed the Filipinos' right to citizenship with the amended Nationality Act of 1940. Through the...
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