---
kind: "section"
citation: "22 U.S.C. § 212"
title: "22"
title_heading: "Foreign Relations and Intercourse"
number: "212"
heading: "Persons entitled to passport"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/22/212"
units:
  - "Chapter 4 — Passports"
---

# §212. Persons entitled to passport


No passport shall be granted or issued to or verified for any other persons than those owing allegiance, whether citizens or not, to the United States.


## Source credit

(R.S. § 4076; June 14, 1902, ch. 1088, § 2, 32 Stat. 386.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

R.S. § 4076 derived from act May 30, 1866, ch. 102, 14 Stat. 54.

### Amendments

1902—Act June 14, 1902, substituted “those owing allegiance, whether citizens or not, to the United States” for “citizens of the United States”.