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Title 8 > Chapter 12 > Subchapter III > Part I > Section 1401

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§ 1401. Nationals and citizens of United States at birth

The following shall be nationals and citizens of the United States at birth:

(a) a person born in the United States, and subject to the jurisdicti­on thereof;

(b) a person born in the United States to a member of an Indian, Eskimo, Aleutian, or other aboriginal tribe: Provided, That the granting of citizenshi­p under this subsection shall not in any manner impair or otherwise affect the right of such person to tribal or other property;

(c) a person born outside of the United States and its outlying possession­s of parents both of whom are citizens of the United States and one of whom has had a residence in the United States or one of its outlying possession­s, prior to the birth of such person;

(d) a person born outside of the United States and its outlying possession­s of parents one of whom is a citizen of the United States who has been physically present in the United States or one of its outlying possession­s for a continuous period of one year prior to the birth of such person, and the other of whom is a national, but not a citizen of the United States;

(e) a person born in an outlying possession of the United States of parents one of whom is a citizen of the United States who has been physically present in the United States or one of its outlying possession­s for a continuous period of one year at any time prior to the birth of such person;

(f) a person of unknown parentage found in the United States while under the age of five years, until shown, prior to his attaining the age of twenty-one years, not to have been born in the United States;

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