§ 137a. — Repealed.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 8USC137a]
TITLE 8--ALIENS AND NATIONALITY
CHAPTER 6--IMMIGRATION
SUBCHAPTER II--REGULATION AND RESTRICTION OF IMMIGRATION IN GENERAL
Sec. 137a. Repealed. May 24, 1934, ch. 344, Sec. 5, 48 Stat. 798
Section, act Sept. 22, 1922, ch. 411, Sec. 8, as added July 3, 1930,
ch. 826, 46 Stat. 849, provided as follows:
``Sec. 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 July 3, 1930, 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
section 136 of this title, 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: Provided, 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 July 3, 1930;
``(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.''
Savings Clause
Section 5 of act May 24, 1934, 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.
