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[CITE: 8USC1502]

 
                     TITLE 8--ALIENS AND NATIONALITY
 
                 CHAPTER 12--IMMIGRATION AND NATIONALITY
 
             SUBCHAPTER III--NATIONALITY AND NATURALIZATION
 
                         Part IV--Miscellaneous
 
Sec. 1502. Certificate of nationality issued by Secretary of 
        State for person not a naturalized citizen of United States for 
        use in proceedings of a foreign state
        
    The Secretary of State is authorized to issue, in his discretion and 
in accordance with rules and regulations prescribed by him, a 
certificate of nationality for any person not a naturalized citizen of 
the United States who presents satisfactory evidence that he is an 
American national and that such certificate is needed for use in 
judicial or administrative proceedings in a foreign state. Such 
certificate shall be solely for use in the case for which it was issued 
and shall be transmitted by the Secretary of State through appropriate 
official channels to the judicial or administrative officers of the 
foreign state in which it is to be used.

(June 27, 1952, ch. 477, title III, ch. 4, Sec. 359, 66 Stat. 273.)

                          Codification

    Section was formerly classified to section 101 of this title.
