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[CITE: 8USC1425]

 
                     TITLE 8--ALIENS AND NATIONALITY
 
                 CHAPTER 12--IMMIGRATION AND NATIONALITY
 
             SUBCHAPTER III--NATIONALITY AND NATURALIZATION
 
               Part II--Nationality Through Naturalization
 
Sec. 1425. Ineligibility to naturalization of deserters from the 
        Armed Forces
        
    A person who, at any time during which the United States has been or 
shall be at war, deserted or shall desert the military, air, or naval 
forces of the United States, or who, having been duly enrolled, 
departed, or shall depart from the jurisdiction of the district in which 
enrolled, or who, whether or not having been duly enrolled, went or 
shall go beyond the limits of the United States, with intent to avoid 
any draft into the military, air, or naval service, lawfully ordered, 
shall, upon conviction thereof by a court martial or a court of 
competent jurisdiction, be permanently ineligible to become a citizen of 
the United States; and such deserters and evaders shall be forever 
incapable of holding any office of trust or of profit under the United 
States, or of exercising any rights of citizens thereof.

(June 27, 1952, ch. 477, title III, ch. 2, Sec. 314, 66 Stat. 241.)