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[CITE: 8USC1454]

 
                     TITLE 8--ALIENS AND NATIONALITY
 
                 CHAPTER 12--IMMIGRATION AND NATIONALITY
 
             SUBCHAPTER III--NATIONALITY AND NATURALIZATION
 
               Part II--Nationality Through Naturalization
 
Sec. 1454. Documents and copies issued by Attorney General

    (a) If any certificate of naturalization or citizenship issued to 
any citizen or any declaration of intention furnished to any declarant 
is lost, mutilated, or destroyed, the citizen or declarant may make 
application to the Attorney General for a new certificate or 
declaration. If the Attorney General finds that the certificate or 
declaration is lost, mutilated, or destroyed, he shall issue to the 
applicant a new certificate or declaration. If the certificate or 
declaration has been mutilated, it shall be surrendered to the Attorney 
General before the applicant may receive such new certificate or 
declaration. If the certificate or declaration has been lost, the 
applicant or any other person who shall have, or may come into 
possession of it is required to surrender it to the Attorney General.
    (b) The Attorney General shall issue for any naturalized citizen, on 
such citizen's application therefor, a special certificate of 
naturalization for use by such citizen only for the purpose of obtaining 
recognition as a citizen of the United States by a foreign state. Such 
certificate when issued shall be furnished to the Secretary of State for 
transmission to the proper authority in such foreign state.
    (c) If the name of any naturalized citizen has, subsequent to 
naturalization, been changed by order of any court of competent 
jurisdiction, or by marriage, the citizen may make application for a new 
certificate of naturalization in the new name of such citizen. If the 
Attorney General finds the name of the applicant to have been changed as 
claimed, the Attorney General shall issue to the applicant a new 
certificate and shall notify the naturalization court of such action.
    (d) The Attorney General is authorized to make and issue 
certifications of any part of the naturalization records of any court, 
or of any certificate of naturalization or citizenship, for use in 
complying with any statute, State or Federal, or in any judicial 
proceeding. No such certification shall be made by any clerk of court 
except upon order of the court.

(June 27, 1952, ch. 477, title III, ch. 2, Sec. 343, 66 Stat. 263; Pub. 
L. 100-525, Sec. 9(ee), Oct. 24, 1988, 102 Stat. 2621.)


                               Amendments

    1988--Pub. L. 100-525 redesignated subsecs. (b) to (e) as (a) to 
(d), respectively, and struck out former subsec. (a) which read as 
follows: ``A person who claims to have been naturalized in the United 
States under section 323 of the Nationality Act of 1940 may make 
application to the Attorney General for a certificate of naturalization. 
Upon proof to the satisfaction of the Attorney General that the 
applicant is a citizen and that he has been naturalized as claimed in 
the application, such individual shall be furnished a certificate of 
naturalization by the Attorney General, but only if the applicant is at 
the time within the United States.''

  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.