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§1440e Exemption From Naturalization Fees for Aliens Naturalized Through Service During Vietnam Hostilities or Other Subsequent Period of Military Hostilities; Report by Clerks of Courts to Attorney General

Title 8 › CHAPTER 12 — IMMIGRATION AND NATIONALITY › SUBCHAPTER III — NATIONALITY AND NATURALIZATION › Part II — Nationality Through Naturalization › § 1440e

Last updated Aug 21, 2026|Official source

Summary

Clerks must not charge or collect naturalization fees from people who served in the U.S. Army, Navy, Air Force, or Marines during the period that began on February 28, 1961 and ended on the date the President names by Executive Order as the end of the Vietnam hostilities, or during any later period the President names as a time when U.S. forces were or are in armed conflict, if those veterans are applying for citizenship under the law for military service members. State court clerks also must not charge these fees unless state law requires a fee; if state law does, they may only collect the portion that must go to the State. All such transactions must be reported to the Attorney General the same way other court clerk immigration reports are sent.

Full Legal Text

Title 8, §1440e

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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 [8 U.S.C. 1440], 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 [8 U.S.C. 1401 et seq.].

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

References in Text

The Immigration and Nationality Act, referred to in text, is act June 27, 1952, ch. 477, 66 Stat. 163. Title III of the Act is classified principally to subchapter III (§ 1401 et seq.) of 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. Codification Section was not enacted as part of the Immigration and Nationality Act which comprises this chapter.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

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.

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Citation

8 U.S.C. § 1440e

Title 8, Aliens and Nationality

Last Updated

Aug 21, 2026

Release point: 119-102