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[CITE: 8USC1407]

 
                     TITLE 8--ALIENS AND NATIONALITY
 
                 CHAPTER 12--IMMIGRATION AND NATIONALITY
 
             SUBCHAPTER III--NATIONALITY AND NATURALIZATION
 
       Part I--Nationality at Birth and Collective Naturalization
 
Sec. 1407. Persons living in and born in Guam

    (a) The following persons, and their children born after April 11, 
1899, are declared to be citizens of the United States as of August 1, 
1950, if they were residing on August 1, 1950, on the island of Guam or 
other territory over which the United States exercises rights of 
sovereignty:
    (1) All inhabitants of the island of Guam on April 11, 1899, 
including those temporarily absent from the island on that date, who 
were Spanish subjects, who after that date continued to reside in Guam 
or other territory over which the United States exercises sovereignty, 
and who have taken no affirmative steps to preserve or acquire foreign 
nationality; and
    (2) All persons born in the island of Guam who resided in Guam on 
April 11, 1899, including those temporarily absent from the island on 
that date, who after that date continued to reside in Guam or other 
territory over which the United States exercises sovereignty, and who 
have taken no affirmative steps to preserve or acquire foreign 
nationality.
    (b) All persons born in the island of Guam on or after April 11, 
1899 (whether before or after August 1, 1950) subject to the 
jurisdiction of the United States, are declared to be citizens of the 
United States: Provided, That in the case of any person born before 
August 1, 1950, he has taken no affirmative steps to preserve or acquire 
foreign nationality.
    (c) Any person hereinbefore described who is a citizen or national 
of a country other than the United States and desires to retain his 
present political status shall have made, prior to August 1, 1952, a 
declaration under oath of such desire, said declaration to be in form 
and executed in the manner prescribed by regulations. From and after the 
making of such a declaration any such person shall be held not to be a 
national of the United States by virtue of this chapter.

(June 27, 1952, ch. 477, title III, ch. 1, Sec. 307, 66 Stat. 237.)
