---
kind: "section"
citation: "8 U.S.C. § 1405"
title: "8"
title_heading: "Aliens and Nationality"
number: "1405"
heading: "Persons born in Hawaii"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/8/1405"
units:
  - "Chapter 12 — Immigration and Nationality"
  - "Subchapter III — Nationality and Naturalization"
  - "Part I — Nationality at Birth and Collective Naturalization"
---

# §1405. Persons born in Hawaii


A [person](/usc/8/1101.md?p=b-3) born in Hawaii on or after August 12, 1898, and before April 30, 1900, is declared to be a citizen of the [United States](/usc/8/1101.md?p=a-38) as of April 30, 1900. A [person](/usc/8/1101.md?p=b-3) born in Hawaii on or after April 30, 1900, is a citizen of the [United States](/usc/8/1101.md?p=a-38) at birth. A [person](/usc/8/1101.md?p=b-3) who was a citizen of the Republic of Hawaii on August 12, 1898, is declared to be a citizen of the [United States](/usc/8/1101.md?p=a-38) as of April 30, 1900.


## Source credit

(June 27, 1952, ch. 477, title III, ch. 1, § 305, 66 Stat. 237.)

## Notes

### Executive Documents

### Admission of Hawaii as State

Hawaii Statehood provisions as not repealing, amending, or modifying the provisions of this section, see section 20 of Pub. L. 86–3, Mar. 18, 1959, 73 Stat. 13, set out as a note at the beginning of chapter 3 of Title 48, Territories and Insular Possessions.