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8 USC § 137a - Repealed. May 24, 1934, ch. 344, § 5, 48 Stat. 798 

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title: "8 USC § 137a - Repealed. May 24, 1934, ch. 344, § 5, 48 Stat. 798"
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# § 137a. Repealed. May 24, 1934, ch. 344, § 5, 48 Stat. 798

Section, , as added , , provided as follows:

“§ 137a. Married woman whose husband is native-born citizen and veteran of World War. Any woman eligible by race to citizenship who has married a citizen of the United States before , whose husband shall have been a native-born citizen and a member of the military or naval forces of the United States during the World War, and separated therefrom under honorable conditions; if otherwise admissible, shall not be excluded from admission into the United States under , unless she be excluded under the provisions of that section relating to—

“(a) Persons afflicted with a loathsome or dangerous contagious disease, except tuberculosis in any form;

“(b) Polygamy;

“(c) Prostitutes, procurers, or other like immoral persons;

“(d) Persons convicted of crime: , That no such wife shall be excluded because of offenses committed during legal infancy, while a minor under the age of twenty-one years, and for which the sentences imposed were less than three months, and which were committed more than five years previous to ;

“(e) Persons previously deported;

“(f) Contract laborers.

“After admission to the United States she shall be subject to all other provisions of [former] sections 9 and 10 and 367–370 of this title.”

## Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Savings Clause

, , provided that the repeal of this section should not affect any right or privilege or terminate any citizenship acquired under the section before such repeal.