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[CITE: 8USC1306]

 
                     TITLE 8--ALIENS AND NATIONALITY
 
                 CHAPTER 12--IMMIGRATION AND NATIONALITY
 
                       SUBCHAPTER II--IMMIGRATION
 
                    Part VII--Registration of Aliens
 
Sec. 1306. Penalties


(a) Willful failure to register

    Any alien required to apply for registration and to be fingerprinted 
in the United States who willfully fails or refuses to make such 
application or to be fingerprinted, and any parent or legal guardian 
required to apply for the registration of any alien who willfully fails 
or refuses to file application for the registration of such alien shall 
be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall, upon conviction thereof, be fined 
not to exceed $1,000 or be imprisoned not more than six months, or both.

(b) Failure to notify change of address

    Any alien or any parent or legal guardian in the United States of 
any alien who fails to give written notice to the Attorney General, as 
required by section 1305 of this title, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor 
and shall, upon conviction thereof, be fined not to exceed $200 or be 
imprisoned not more than thirty days, or both. Irrespective of whether 
an alien is convicted and punished as herein provided, any alien who 
fails to give written notice to the Attorney General, as required by 
section 1305 of this title, shall be taken into custody and removed in 
the manner provided by part IV of this subchapter, unless such alien 
establishes to the satisfaction of the Attorney General that such 
failure was reasonably excusable or was not willful.

(c) Fraudulent statements

    Any alien or any parent or legal guardian of any alien, who files an 
application for registration containing statements known by him to be 
false, or who procures or attempts to procure registration of himself or 
another person through fraud, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and 
shall, upon conviction thereof, be fined not to exceed $1,000, or be 
imprisoned not more than six months, or both; and any alien so convicted 
shall, upon the warrant of the Attorney General, be taken into custody 
and be removed in the manner provided in part IV of this subchapter.

(d) Counterfeiting

    Any person who with unlawful intent photographs, prints, or in any 
other manner makes, or executes, any engraving, photograph, print, or 
impression in the likeness of any certificate of alien registration or 
an alien registration receipt card or any colorable imitation thereof, 
except when and as authorized under such rules and regulations as may be 
prescribed by the Attorney General, shall upon conviction be fined not 
to exceed $5,000 or be imprisoned not more than five years, or both.

(June 27, 1952, ch. 477, title II, ch. 7, Sec. 266, 66 Stat. 225; Pub. 
L. 104-208, div. C, title III, Sec. 308(e)(2)(G), (g)(9)(A), Sept. 30, 
1996, 110 Stat. 3009-620, 3009-624.)


                               Amendments

    1996--Subsecs. (b), (c). Pub. L. 104-208 substituted ``removed'' for 
``deported'' and ``part IV'' for ``Part V''.


                    Effective Date of 1996 Amendment

    Amendment by Pub. L. 104-208 effective, with certain transitional 
provisions, on the first day of the first month beginning more than 180 
days after Sept. 30, 1996, see section 309 of Pub. L. 104-208, set out 
as a note under section 1101 of this title.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 1227 of this title.
