---
kind: "section"
citation: "8 U.S.C. § 1404"
title: "8"
title_heading: "Aliens and Nationality"
number: "1404"
heading: "Persons born in Alaska on or after March 30, 1867"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/8/1404"
units:
  - "Chapter 12 — Immigration and Nationality"
  - "Subchapter III — Nationality and Naturalization"
  - "Part I — Nationality at Birth and Collective Naturalization"
---

# §1404. Persons born in Alaska on or after March 30, 1867


A [person](/usc/8/1101.md?p=b-3) born in Alaska on or after March 30, 1867, except a noncitizen Indian, is a citizen of the [United States](/usc/8/1101.md?p=a-38) at birth. A noncitizen Indian born in Alaska on or after March 30, 1867, and prior to June 2, 1924, is declared to be a citizen of the [United States](/usc/8/1101.md?p=a-38) as of June 2, 1924. An Indian born in Alaska on or after June 2, 1924, is a citizen of the [United States](/usc/8/1101.md?p=a-38) at birth.


## Source credit

(June 27, 1952, ch. 477, title III, ch. 1, § 304, 66 Stat. 237.)

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Admission of Alaska as State

Alaska Statehood provisions as not repealing, amending, or modifying the provisions of this section, see section 24 of Pub. L. 85–508, July 7, 1958, 72 Stat. 339, set out as a note preceding former section 21 of Title 48, Territories and Insular Possessions.