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[CITE: 8USC1405]

 
                     TITLE 8--ALIENS AND NATIONALITY
 
                 CHAPTER 12--IMMIGRATION AND NATIONALITY
 
             SUBCHAPTER III--NATIONALITY AND NATURALIZATION
 
       Part I--Nationality at Birth and Collective Naturalization
 
Sec. 1405. Persons born in Hawaii

    A person born in Hawaii on or after August 12, 1898, and before 
April 30, 1900, is declared to be a citizen of the United States as of 
April 30, 1900. A person born in Hawaii on or after April 30, 1900, is a 
citizen of the United States at birth. A person who was a citizen of the 
Republic of Hawaii on August 12, 1898, is declared to be a citizen of 
the United States as of April 30, 1900.

(June 27, 1952, ch. 477, title III, ch. 1, Sec. 305, 66 Stat. 237.)


                      Admission of Hawaii as State

    Hawaii Statehood provisions as not repealing, amending, or modifying 
the provisions of this section, see section 20 of Pub. L. 86-3, Mar. 18, 
1959, 73 Stat. 13, set out as a note at the beginning of chapter 3 of 
Title 48, Territories and Insular Possessions.