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Naturalization fees, exemption.

Report.

8 USC 14011503.

66 Stat. 250. 8 USC 1440.

PUBLIC LAW 90-633-OCT. 24, 1968

[82 STAT.

termination of the Vietnam hostilities, or thereafter during any other period which the President by Executive order shall designate as a period in which Armed Forces of the United States are or were engaged in military operations involving armed conflict with a hostile foreign force,". SEC. 3. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no clerk of a United States court shall charge or collect a naturalization fee from an alien who has served in the military, air, or naval forces of the United States during a period beginning February 28, 1961, and ending on the date designated by the President by Executive order as the date of termination of the Vietnam hostilities, or thereafter during any other period which the President by Executive order shall designate as a period in which Armed Forces of the United States are or were engaged in military operations involving armed conflict with a hostile foreign force, and who is applying for naturalization during.such periods under section 329 of the Immigration and Nationality Act, as amended by this Act, for filing a petition for naturalization or issuing a certificate of naturalization upon his admission to citizenship, and no clerk of any State court shall charge or collect any fee for such services unless the laws of the State require.such charge to be made, in which case nothing more than the portion of the fee required to be paid to the State shall be charged or collected. A report of all transactions under this section shall be made to the Attorney General as in the case of other reports required of clerks of courts by title III of the Immigration and Nationality Act. SEC. 4. The third sentence of section 318 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1429) is hereby amended by striking out the langauge "sections 327 and 328" and substituting in lieu thereof the language "sections 328 and 329". SEC. 5. Section 328(b)(2) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1439) is hereby amended by inserting after the word "notwithstanding" the language "section 318 insofar as it relates to deportability and". SEC. 6. Section 329(b)(1) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1440) is hereby amended to read as folows: "(1) he may be naturalized regardless of age, and notwithstanding the provisions of section 318 as they relate to deportability and the provisions of section 331;". SEC. 7. The section heading of section 329 of the Immigration and Nationality Act is amended to read as follows: "NATURALIZATION T H R O U G H ACTIVE-DUTY SERVICE I N THE ARMED FORCES DURING WORLD WAR I, WORLD WAR II, THE KOREAN H O S T I L I T I E S, THE VI E T N A M HOSTILITIES, OR I N OTHER PERIODS OF M I L I T A R Y H O S T I L I T I E S ".

SEC. 8. That portion of the table of contents contained in the first section of the Immigration and Nationality Act which appears under the heading " TITLE III — N A T I O N A L I T Y A N D N A T U R A L I Z A T I O N " is amended by changing the designation of section 329 to read as follows: "Sec. 329. Naturalization through active-duty service in the Armed Forces during World War I, World War II, the Korean hostilities, the Vietnam hostilities, or in other periods of military hostilities."

Approved October 24, 1968.

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