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[CITE: 8USC1489]

 
                     TITLE 8--ALIENS AND NATIONALITY
 
                 CHAPTER 12--IMMIGRATION AND NATIONALITY
 
             SUBCHAPTER III--NATIONALITY AND NATURALIZATION
 
                      Part III--Loss of Nationality
 
Sec. 1489. Application of treaties; exceptions

    Nothing in this subchapter shall be applied in contravention of the 
provisions of any treaty or convention to which the United States is a 
party and which has been ratified by the Senate before December 25, 
1952: Provided, however, That no woman who was a national of the United 
States shall be deemed to have lost her nationality solely by reason of 
her marriage to an alien on or after September 22, 1922, or to an alien 
racially ineligible to citizenship on or after March 3, 1931, or, in the 
case of a woman who was a United States citizen at birth, through 
residence abroad following such marriage, notwithstanding the provisions 
of any existing treaty or convention.

(June 27, 1952, ch. 477, title III, ch. 3, Sec. 357, 66 Stat. 272; Pub. 
L. 100-525, Sec. 9(ii), Oct. 24, 1988, 102 Stat. 2622.)


                               Amendments

    1988--Pub. L. 100-525 substituted ``before December 25, 1952'' for 
``upon the effective date of this subchapter''.
