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Title 8 — Aliens and NationalityRelease 119-73

§1458 Compilation of naturalization statistics and payment for equipment

Title 8 › Chapter CHAPTER 12— - IMMIGRATION AND NATIONALITY › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER III— - NATIONALITY AND NATURALIZATION › Part Part II— - Nationality Through Naturalization › § 1458

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Attorney General must make a yearly report from the Service’s records about people who have applied for U.S. citizenship. The report must show applicants by nationality, compare them to the numbers of aliens arriving each year and to the foreign‑born census totals, and give economic, job, and other statistics with analysis. Equipment costs for making the report must be paid from the Service’s appropriation for enforcing this chapter.

Full Legal Text

Title 8, §1458

Aliens and Nationality — Source: USLM XML via OLRC

The Attorney General is authorized and directed to prepare from the records in the custody of the Service a report upon those heretofore seeking citizenship to show by nationalities their relation to the numbers of aliens annually arriving and to the prevailing census populations of the foreign-born, their economic, vocational, and other classification, in statistical form, with analytical comment thereon, and to prepare such report annually hereafter. Payment for the equipment used in preparing such compilation shall be made from the appropriation for the enforcement of this chapter by the Service.

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

References in Text

This chapter, referred to in text, was in the original, “this Act”, meaning act June 27, 1952, ch. 477, 66 Stat. 163, known as the Immigration and Nationality Act, which is classified principally to this chapter. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see

Short Title

note set out under section 1101 of this title and Tables.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective Date

Section effective 180 days after
June 27, 1952, see section 407 of act
June 27, 1952, set out as a note under section 1101 of this title. Abolition of Immigration and Naturalization Service and

Transfer of Functions

For abolition of Immigration and Naturalization Service,

Transfer of Functions

, and treatment of related references, see note set out under section 1551 of this title.

Reference

Citations & Metadata

Citation

8 U.S.C. § 1458

Title 8 — Aliens and Nationality

Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

Release point: 119-73