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[CITE: 8USC1453]

 
                     TITLE 8--ALIENS AND NATIONALITY
 
                 CHAPTER 12--IMMIGRATION AND NATIONALITY
 
             SUBCHAPTER III--NATIONALITY AND NATURALIZATION
 
               Part II--Nationality Through Naturalization
 
Sec. 1453. Cancellation of certificates issued by Attorney 
        General, the Commissioner or a Deputy Commissioner; action not 
        to affect citizenship status
        
    The Attorney General is authorized to cancel any certificate of 
citizenship, certificate of naturalization, copy of a declaration of 
intention, or other certificate, document or record heretofore issued or 
made by the Commissioner or a Deputy Commissioner or hereafter made by 
the Attorney General if it shall appear to the Attorney General's 
satisfaction that such document or record was illegally or fraudulently 
obtained from, or was created through illegality or by fraud practiced 
upon, him or the Commissioner or a Deputy Commissioner; but the person 
for or to whom such document or record has been issued or made shall be 
given at such person's last-known place of address written notice of the 
intention to cancel such document or record with the reasons therefor 
and shall be given at least sixty days in which to show cause why such 
document or record should not be canceled. 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.

(June 27, 1952, ch. 477, title III, ch. 2, Sec. 342, 66 Stat. 263.)


                             Effective Date

    Section effective 180 days after June 27, 1952, see section 407 of 
act June 27, 1952, set out as a note under section 1101 of this title.

  Abolition of Immigration and Naturalization Service and Transfer of 
                                Functions

    For abolition of Immigration and Naturalization Service, transfer of 
functions, and treatment of related references, see note set out under 
section 1551 of this title.