---
kind: "section"
citation: "28 U.S.C. § 1444"
title: "28"
title_heading: "Judiciary and Judicial Procedure"
number: "1444"
heading: "Foreclosure action against United States"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/28/1444"
units:
  - "Part IV — Jurisdiction and Venue"
  - "Chapter 89 — District Courts; Removal of Cases from State Courts"
---

# §1444. Foreclosure action against United States


Any action brought under [section 2410 of this title](/usc/28/2410.md) against the United States in any [State court](/usc/28/1451.md?p=1) may be removed by the United States to the district court of the United States for the district and division in which the action is pending.


## Source credit

(June 25, 1948, ch. 646, 62 Stat. 938; May 24, 1949, ch. 139, § 82, 63 Stat. 101.)

## Notes

### Historical and Revision Notes

### 1948 Act

Based on title 28, U.S.C., 1940 ed., § 903 (Mar. 4, 1931, ch. 515, § 3, 46 Stat. 1529).

The procedural provisions of section 903 of title 28, U.S.C., 1940 ed., were omitted as covered by section 1446 of this title.

Changes were made in phraseology.

### 1949 Act

This section corrects typographical errors in section 1444 of title 28, U.S.C.

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1949—Act May 24, 1949, inserted “court” between “State” and “may”, and substituted “division” for “divisions”.