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 PUBLIC LAWS-CH. 199-MAR. 27, 1942 Guard), while on active duty or in the active military or naval service of the United States, to any person in the United States, including the Territories and possessions thereof, shall be transmitted in the mails free of postage, subject to such rules and regulations as the Postmaster General shall prescribe. TITLE X-NATURALIZATION OF PERSONS SERVING IN THE ARMED FORCES OF THE UNITED STATES DURING THE PRESENT WAR Nationality Act of 1940, amendment. SEC. 1001. The Act of October 14, 1940 (54 Stat. 1137; U. S. C., 8U. S. c ., Supp. i, 1940 ed., title 8, secs. 501-907), entitled "An Act to revise and ost, pp . 198, 779, codify the nationality laws of the United States into a comprehensive 041,1043,1086. nationality code", is hereby amended by adding thereto a new title as follows: "TITLE III ores during preent "SEC. 701. Notwithstanding the provisions of sections 303 and 326 war. of this Act, any person not a citizen, regardless of age, who has 54 Stat. 1140, 1150. s8u.S .tc.t170.i3726. served or hereafter serves honorably in the military or naval forces of the United States during the present war and who, having been lawfully admitted to the United States, including its Territories and possessions, shall have been at the time of his enlistment or induction a resident thereof, may be naturalized upon compliance with all the Wairverof.ertasin.r requirements of the naturalization laws except that (1) no declara- tion of intention and no period of residence within the United States or any State shall be required; (2) the petition for naturalization may be filed in any court having naturalization jurisdiction regard- less of the residence of the petitioner; (3) the petitioner shall not be required to speak the English language, sign his petition in his own handwriting, or meet any educational test; and (4) no fee shall be charged or collected for making, filing, or docketing the petition for naturalization, or for the final hearing thereon, or for the certification Prvideno f goo of naturalization, if issued: Provided, however, That (1) there shall character. etc. be included in the petition the affidavits of at least two credible wit- nesses, citizens of the United States, stating that each such witness personally knows the petitioner to be a person of good moral charac- ter, attached to the principles of the Constitution of the United States, and well disposed to the good order and happiness of the proof of service. United States, (2) the service of the petitioner in the military or naval forces of the United States shall be proved by affidavits, forming part of the petition, of at least two citizens of the United States, members or former members during the present war of the military or naval forces of the noncommissioned or warrant officer grade or higher (who may be the witnesses described in clause (1) of this proviso), or by a duly authenticated copy of the record of the execu- tive department having custody of the record of petitioner's service, showing that the petitioner is or was during the present war a member iling of petition serving honorably in such armed forces, and (3) the petition shall be filed not later than one year after the termination of the effective Post, p. 187. period of those titles of the Second War Powers Act, 1942, for which Immediate natural- the effective period is specified in the last title thereof. The petitioner may be naturalized immediately if prior to the filing of the petition the petitioner and the witnesses required by the foregoing proviso shall have appeared before and been examined by a representative of the Immigration and Naturalization Service. risditono ntura "SEC. 702. During the present war, any person entitled to naturaliza- ization court. tion under section 701 of this Act, who while serving honorably in the [56 STAT.

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