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[CITE: 8USC1402]

 
                     TITLE 8--ALIENS AND NATIONALITY
 
                 CHAPTER 12--IMMIGRATION AND NATIONALITY
 
             SUBCHAPTER III--NATIONALITY AND NATURALIZATION
 
       Part I--Nationality at Birth and Collective Naturalization
 
Sec. 1402. Persons born in Puerto Rico on or after April 11, 
        1899
        
    All persons born in Puerto Rico on or after April 11, 1899, and 
prior to January 13, 1941, subject to the jurisdiction of the United 
States, residing on January 13, 1941, in Puerto Rico or other territory 
over which the United States exercises rights of sovereignty and not 
citizens of the United States under any other Act, are declared to be 
citizens of the United States as of January 13, 1941. All persons born 
in Puerto Rico on or after January 13, 1941, and subject to the 
jurisdiction of the United States, are citizens of the United States at 
birth.

(June 27, 1952, ch. 477, title III, ch. 1, Sec. 302, 66 Stat. 236.)
