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The Naturalization Act of 1790 (1 Stat. 103, enacted March 26, 1790) was a law of the United States Congress that set the first uniform rules for the granting of United States citizenship by naturalization.
1790 Naturalization Act of 1790: Established the rules for naturalized citizenship, as per Article 1, Section 8 of the Constitution, but placed no restrictions on immigration. Citizenship was limited to white persons, with no other restriction on non-whites. Note: this is a restriction on naturalization (voting and office-holding), not on ...
The 1795 Act continued the 1790 Act limitation of naturalization being available only to "free white person[s]." The main change was the increase in the period of required residence in the United States before an alien can be naturalized from two to five years, and the introduction of the Declaration of Intention requirement, or "first papers", which required to be filed at least three years ...
Pursuant to this power, Congress in 1790 passed the first naturalization law for the United States, the Naturalization Act of 1790. The law enabled those who had resided in the country for two years and had kept their current state of residence for a year to apply for citizenship.
The Naturalization Act of 1790 provided that "the children of citizens of the United States, that may be born beyond sea, or out of the limits of the United States, shall be considered as natural born citizens...". [54] The 1790 Act is the only act that has ever used the term, which was omitted by the replacement Naturalization Act of 1795. The ...
Congress passed the Naturalization Act of 1790 covering immigrants who had resided in the United States for two years and took an oath of allegiance. It was the most liberal naturalization law to ...
In 1942, Congress revoked the citizenship of German-born engineer and Nazi sympathizer Carl Baumgartner under The Naturalization Act of 1940, which was thought to authorize Congress to revoke ...
Naturalization Act of 1790; Naturalization Act of 1795; Naturalization Act of 1798, part of the Alien and Sedition Acts; Naturalization Acts of 1804 and 1855, concerning birthright citizenship in the United States; Naturalization Act of 1870; Naturalization Act of 1906