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[CITE: 8USC1504]

 
                     TITLE 8--ALIENS AND NATIONALITY
 
                 CHAPTER 12--IMMIGRATION AND NATIONALITY
 
             SUBCHAPTER III--NATIONALITY AND NATURALIZATION
 
                         Part IV--Miscellaneous
 
Sec. 1504. Cancellation of United States passports and Consular 
        Reports of Birth
        
    (a) The Secretary of State is authorized to cancel any United States 
passport or Consular Report of Birth, or certified copy thereof, if it 
appears that such document was illegally, fraudulently, or erroneously 
obtained from, or was created through illegality or fraud practiced 
upon, the Secretary. The person for or to whom such document has been 
issued or made shall be given, at such person's last known address, 
written notice of the cancellation of such document, together with the 
procedures for seeking a prompt post-cancellation hearing. The 
cancellation under this section of any document purporting to show the 
citizenship status of the person to whom it was issued shall affect only 
the document and not the citizenship status of the person in whose name 
the document was issued.
    (b) For purposes of this section, the term ``Consular Report of 
Birth'' refers to the report, designated as a ``Report of Birth Abroad 
of a Citizen of the United States'', issued by a consular officer to 
document a citizen born abroad.

(June 27, 1952, ch. 477, title III, ch. 4, Sec. 361, as added Pub. L. 
103-416, title I, Sec. 107(a), Oct. 25, 1994, 108 Stat. 4309.)
