---
kind: "section"
citation: "8 U.S.C. § 1440e"
title: "8"
title_heading: "Aliens and Nationality"
number: "1440e"
heading: "Exemption from naturalization fees for aliens naturalized through service during Vietnam hostilities or other subsequent period of military hostilities; report by clerks of courts to Attorney General"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/8/1440e"
units:
  - "Chapter 12 — Immigration and Nationality"
  - "Subchapter III — Nationality and Naturalization"
  - "Part II — Nationality Through Naturalization"
---

# §1440e. Exemption from naturalization fees for aliens naturalized through service during Vietnam hostilities or other subsequent period of military hostilities; report by clerks of courts to Attorney General


Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no clerk of a [United States](/usc/8/1101.md?p=a-38) court shall charge or collect a [naturalization](/usc/8/1101.md?p=a-23) fee from an [alien](/usc/8/1101.md?p=a-3) who has served in the military, air, or naval forces of the [United States](/usc/8/1101.md?p=a-38) during a period beginning February 28, 1961, and ending on the date designated by the President by Executive order as the date of termination of the Vietnam hostilities, or thereafter during any other period which the President by Executive order shall designate as a period in which Armed Forces of the [United States](/usc/8/1101.md?p=a-38) are or were engaged in military operations involving armed conflict with a hostile foreign force, and who is applying for [naturalization](/usc/8/1101.md?p=a-23) during such periods under section 329 of the Immigration and Nationality Act, as amended by this Act [[8 U.S.C. 1440](/usc/8/1440.md)], for filing a petition for [naturalization](/usc/8/1101.md?p=a-23) or issuing a certificate of [naturalization](/usc/8/1101.md?p=a-23) upon his [admission](/usc/8/1101.md?p=a-13-A) to citizenship, and no clerk of any [State](/usc/8/1101.md?p=a-36) court shall charge or collect any fee for such [services](/usc/8/1101.md?p=a-34) unless the laws of the [State](/usc/8/1101.md?p=a-36) require such charge to be made, in which case nothing more than the portion of the fee required to be paid to the [State](/usc/8/1101.md?p=a-36) shall be charged or collected. A report of all transactions under this section shall be made to the [Attorney General](/usc/8/1101.md?p=a-5) as in the case of other reports required of clerks of courts by title III of the Immigration and Nationality Act [[8 U.S.C. 1401](/usc/8/1401.md) et seq.].


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 90–633, § 3, Oct. 24, 1968, 82 Stat. 1344.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

The Immigration and Nationality Act, referred to in text, is act June 27, 1952, ch. 477, 66 Stat. 163. Title III of the Act is classified principally to subchapter III (§ 1401 et seq.) of this chapter. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 1101 of this title and Tables.

### Codification

Section was not enacted as part of the Immigration and Nationality Act which comprises this chapter.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Abolition of Immigration and Naturalization Service and Transfer of Functions

For abolition of Immigration and Naturalization Service, transfer of functions, and treatment of related references, see note set out under section 1551 of this title.