---
kind: "section"
citation: "8 C.F.R. § 338.3"
title: "8"
number: "338.3"
heading: "Delivery of certificates."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/8/338.3"
---

# §338.3. Delivery of certificates.


No Certificate of Naturalization will be delivered in any case in which the naturalized person has not surrendered his or her Permanent Resident Card to USCIS. Upon a finding that the card is destroyed or otherwise unavailable, USCIS may waive the surrender of the card and the Certificate of Naturalization shall then be delivered to the naturalized person.


## Notes

### Amendments

[56 FR 50501, Oct. 7, 1991, as amended at 63 FR 70316, Dec. 21, 1998; 76 FR 53803, Aug. 29, 2011]

### Authority

Authority: 8 U.S.C. 1103, 1443; 8 CFR part 2.

### Amendments

[56 FR 50501, Oct. 7, 1991, as amended at 63 FR 70316, Dec. 21, 1998; 76 FR 53803, Aug. 29, 2011]