Sec. 351. restrictions on loss of nationality475
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## Sec. 351 restrictions on loss of nationality475 **[**[8 U.S.C. 1483](/us/usc/t8/s1483)**]** ###
(a)Except as provided in paragraphs
(6)and
(7)of section 349(a) of this title, no national of the United States can lose United States nationality under this Act while within the United States or any of its outlying possessions, but loss of nationality shall result from the performance within the United States or any of its outlying possessions of any of the acts or the fulfillment of any of the conditions specified in this chapter if and when the national thereafter takes up a residence outside the United States and its outlying possessions. 475This section was amended by §105(a) of the Immigration and Nationality Technical Corrections Act of 1994 (P.L. 103–416, 108 Stat. 4308, Oct. 25, 1994) by substituting references to “loss of nationality” for “expatriation”; the comma in subsection
(a)after “nationality” was inadvertently not stricken. Section 1999 of the Revised Statutes of the United States (8 U.S.C. 1481 note) provides as follows: “Whereas the right of expatriation is a natural and inherent right of all people, indispensable to the enjoyment of the rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness; and whereas in the recognition of this principle this Government has freely received emigrants from all nations, and invested them with the rights of citizenship; and whereas it is claimed that such American citizens, with their descendants, are subjects of foreign states, owing allegiance to the governments thereof; and whereas it is necessary to the maintenance of public peace that this claim of foreign allegiance should be promptly and finally disavowed: Therefore any declaration, instruction, opinion, order, or decision of any officer of the United States which denies, restricts, impairs, or questions the right of expatriation, is declared inconsistent with the fundamental principles of the Republic.”. ###
(b)A national who within six months after attaining the age of eighteen years asserts his claim to United States nationality, in such manner as the Secretary of State shall by regulation prescribe, shall not be deemed to have lost United States nationality by the commission, prior to his eighteenth birthday, of any of the acts specified in paragraphs
(3)and
(5)of section 349(a) of this title. **[**Sections 352 through 355 were repealed.**]**
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