---
kind: "section"
citation: "8 U.S.C. § 1359"
title: "8"
title_heading: "Aliens and Nationality"
number: "1359"
heading: "Application to American Indians born in Canada"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/8/1359"
units:
  - "Chapter 12 — Immigration and Nationality"
  - "Subchapter II — Immigration"
  - "Part IX — Miscellaneous"
---

# §1359. Application to American Indians born in Canada


Nothing in this subchapter shall be construed to affect the right of American Indians born in Canada to pass the borders of the [United States](/usc/8/1101.md?p=a-38), but such right shall extend only to [persons](/usc/8/1101.md?p=b-3) who possess at least 50 per centum of blood of the American Indian race.


## Source credit

(June 27, 1952, ch. 477, title II, ch. 9, § 289, 66 Stat. 234.)