8 U.S.C. § 7
LIMITATION ON NUMBER OF BENEFICIARIES.
“Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, the total number of aliens who may be granted an exemption under section 2 or special consideration under section 3, or both, may not exceed 45,000.”
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 15
cases (1 in the last 5 years), 1927–2025 · leading case: Nehme v. Immigration & Naturalization Service
Nehme v. Immigration & Naturalization Service (2001)
“§ 2172, codified at former 8 U.S.C. § 7 ). However, this provision may not have operated prospectively to persons naturalized after 1802.”
Morrison v. California (1934)
“§ 2172; 8 U.S.C. § 7 . But a person of the Japanese race, if not bom a citizen, is ineligible to become a citizen, i.”
United States Ex Rel. Guest v. Perkins (1936)
“Petitioner also relies upon section 2172 of the Revised Statutes ( 8 U.S.C.A. § 7 ) which provides inter alia: “The children of persons who now are, or have been, citizens of the United States, shall, though born out of the limits and jurisdiction of the United States, be…”
Mock Gum Ying v. Cahill (1936)
“Appellant claiming American citizenship through her mother invokes the Act of April 14, 1802 ( 8 U.S.C.A. § 7 ), which was re-enacted June 22, 1874, incorporated in the Revised Statutes as section 2172, and thereafter finding a place as title 8, section 7 of the “Code of Laws of…”
In Re CITIZENSHIP STATUS OF MINOR CHILDREN WHERE MOTHER ALONE BECOMES CITIZEN THROUGH NATURALIZATION (1928)
“interpretation of the laws governing the status of minor children in naturalization matters is to limit their rights to those which will conform to the status of the father; this despite any apparent ambiguity appearing in the use of the word “parent” in section 5 of the Act 'of…”
Haaland v. Attorney General of the United States (1941)
“§ 2172, 8 U.S.C.A. § 7 , and Section 5 of the Act of March 2nd, 1907, 8 U.”
United States ex rel. Betty v. Day (1928)
“This had also been held under Revised Statutes, §' 2172, 8 USCA § 7, in Zartarian v. Billings, 204 U.”
United States Ex Rel. Fracassi v. Karnuth (1937)
“title 8, § 7 ( 8 U.S.C.A. § 7 ). Provided the. petitioner’s paternal grandfather was naturalized, as claimed by the petitioner, the father became a citizen by virtue of the above-cited statute.”
United States v. Kreticos (1930)
“On December 14, 1920, her father was naturalized, she being then about 19. Mr. Justice Holmes, in delivering the opinion of the court, said: “But it is said that she became a citizen by the naturalization of her father while she was a minor and in this country, Rev.”
United States v. Jesse Perez (2025)
“12 While we and the Ninth Circuit have found that 8 U.S.C. § 7 (3) applies extraterritorially, the Second Circuit has rejected its extraterritorial application.”
Ex parte Wienke (1940)
“, 8 U.S.C.A. § 7 . 1 Counsel further contends that this section “has not been repealed and is in full force and effect”; that “The act approved March 2, 1907, Title 8, Sec.”
In Re Bishop (1927)
“(Act April 14, 1802; 8 USCA § 7), provides that “children of persons who have been duly naturalized under any law of the United States * * * under the age of twenty-one (years at the time of the naturalization of their parents, shall, * * * be considered as citizens thereof. * *…”
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