---
kind: "section"
citation: "18 U.S.C. § 3291"
title: "18"
title_heading: "Crimes and Criminal Procedure"
number: "3291"
heading: "Nationality, citizenship and passports"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/18/3291"
units:
  - "Part II — Criminal Procedure"
  - "Chapter 213 — Limitations"
---

# §3291. Nationality, citizenship and passports


No person shall be prosecuted, tried, or punished for violation of any provision of sections [1423](/usc/18/1423.md) to [1428](/usc/18/1428.md), inclusive, of [chapter 69](/usc/18/chptI/ch69.md) and sections [1541](/usc/18/1541.md) to [1544](/usc/18/1544.md), inclusive, of [chapter 75](/usc/18/chptI/ch75.md) of title 18 of the United States Code, or for conspiracy to violate any of such sections, unless the indictment is found or the information is instituted within ten years after the commission of the [offense](/usc/18/3156.md?p=a-2).


## Source credit

(Added June 30, 1951, ch. 194, § 1, 65 Stat. 107; amended Pub. L. 103–322, title XXXIII, § 330008(9), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 2143.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1994—Pub. L. 103–322 substituted “violate any of such sections” for “violate any of the afore-mentioned sections”.