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![handle is hein.immigration/amdnaty0001 and id is 1 raw text is: 77TH CONGRESS HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES REPORT
1st Session No. 1544
AMENDING THE NATIONALITY ACT OF 1940
DECEMBER 17, 1941.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the
state of the Union and ordered to be printed
Mr. MASON, from the Committee on Immigration and
Naturalization, submitted the following
REPORT
[To accompany H. R. 6250]
The Committee on Immigration and Naturalization, to whom was
referred the bill (H. R. 6250) to amend the Nationality Act of 1940
(54 Stat. 1137) so as (1) to strengthen the national defense, and (2).to
make certain grammatical and typographical changes in the interest
of clarity and accuracy, having considered the same, report favorably
thereon with amendments and recommend that the bill, as amended,
do pass.
The amendments are as follows:
First. Strike out the following language appearing on page 2, lines
11-24, inclusive:
SEc. 3. Section 308 of the Nationality Act of 1940, approved October 14, 1940
(54 Stat. 1143), is hereby amended by adding at the end thereof a new subsection
to be lettered subsection (a), and reading as follows:
(a) Any alien who is fifty years of age or over and who has resided in the
United States continuously for a period of at least ten years may, if eligible for
naturalization, file petition for naturalization within two years from the effective
date of this subsection and thereafter be admitted to citizenship upon full and
complete compliance with all requirements of the naturalization laws, except that
no declaration of intention shall be required, and he shall not be required to
speak the English language, sign his petition in his own handwriting, or meet
other educational tests.
and substitute the following therefor:
SEC. 3. The Nationality Act of 1940, approved October 14, 1940 (54 Stat. 1137),
is hereby amended by adding, immediately following section 304 thereof, a new
section to be numbered 304A and reading as follows:
SEc. 304A. An alien, if eligible to naturalization, fifty years of age or over,
who has resided in the United States continuously since prior to July 1, 1924,
and who, on or prior to the effective date of this section, has made a declaration
of intention to become a citizen which is not more than seven years old, or who,
within two years from the effective date of this section, shall make a declaration of
intention, may thereafter file petition for naturalization and be admitted to citizen-
ship upon full and complete compliance with all requirements of the naturalization](ViewImageLocal?handle=hein.immigration/amdnaty0001&div=1&collection=&method=preview&ext=.png&size=3)