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[CITE: 8USC137a]

 
                     TITLE 8--ALIENS AND NATIONALITY
 
                         CHAPTER 6--IMMIGRATION
 
   SUBCHAPTER II--REGULATION AND RESTRICTION OF IMMIGRATION IN GENERAL
 
Sec. 137a. Repealed. May 24, 1934, ch. 344, Sec. 5, 48 Stat. 798

    Section, act Sept. 22, 1922, ch. 411, Sec. 8, as added July 3, 1930, 
ch. 826, 46 Stat. 849, provided as follows:
    ``Sec. 137a. Married woman whose husband is native-born citizen and 
veteran of World War. Any woman eligible by race to citizenship who has 
married a citizen of the United States before July 3, 1930, whose 
husband shall have been a native-born citizen and a member of the 
military or naval forces of the United States during the World War, and 
separated therefrom under honorable conditions; if otherwise admissible, 
shall not be excluded from admission into the United States under 
section 136 of this title, unless she be excluded under the provisions 
of that section relating to--
    ``(a) Persons afflicted with a loathsome or dangerous contagious 
disease, except tuberculosis in any form;
    ``(b) Polygamy;
    ``(c) Prostitutes, procurers, or other like immoral persons;
    ``(d) Persons convicted of crime: Provided, That no such wife shall 
be excluded because of offenses committed during legal infancy, while a 
minor under the age of twenty-one years, and for which the sentences 
imposed were less than three months, and which were committed more than 
five years previous to July 3, 1930;
    ``(e) Persons previously deported;
    ``(f) Contract laborers.
    ``After admission to the United States she shall be subject to all 
other provisions of [former] sections 9 and 10 and 367-370 of this 
title.''


                             Savings Clause

    Section 5 of act May 24, 1934, provided that the repeal of this 
section should not affect any right or privilege or terminate any 
citizenship acquired under the section before such repeal.
