18 USC § 1424 - Personation or misuse of papers in naturalization proceedings

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identifier: "/us/usc/t18/s1424"
source: "usc"
legal_status: "official_legal_evidence"
title: "18 USC § 1424 - Personation or misuse of papers in naturalization proceedings"
title_number: 18
title_name: "CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE"
section_number: "1424"
section_name: "Personation or misuse of papers in naturalization proceedings"
chapter_number: 69
chapter_name: "NATIONALITY AND CITIZENSHIP"
part_number: "I"
part_name: "CRIMES"
positive_law: true
currency: "119-84"
last_updated: "2026-04-21"
format_version: "1.1.0"
generator: "[email protected]"
source_credit: "(June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 766; Pub. L. 103–322, title XXXIII, § 330016(1)(K), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 2147.)"
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# § 1424. Personation or misuse of papers in naturalization proceedings

Whoever, whether as applicant, declarant, petitioner, witness or otherwise, in any naturalization or citizenship proceeding, knowingly personates another or appears falsely in the name of a deceased person or in an assumed or fictitious name; or

Whoever knowingly and unlawfully uses or attempts to use, as showing naturalization or citizenship of any person, any order, certificate, certificate of naturalization, certificate of citizenship, judgment, decree, or exemplification, or copies or duplicates thereof, issued to another person, or in a fictitious name or in the name of a deceased person—

Shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than five years, or both.

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**Source Credit**: (June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 766; Pub. L. 103–322, title XXXIII, § 330016(1)(K), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 2147.)

### Historical and Revision Notes

Based on subsection (a) pars. (6)(a), (b), (15), (b), (d) of , U.S.C., 1940 ed., Aliens and Nationality (, pars. (6), (15), (b), (d), , 1165, 1167).

Section consolidates, with minor verbal changes, subsections (a), pars. (6)(a), (b), (15), (b), (d), and the general punishment provision of , U.S.C., 1940 ed., Aliens and Nationality.

## Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1994— substituted “fined under this title” for “fined not more than $5,000” in last par.