---
kind: "section"
citation: "8 U.S.C. § 1444"
title: "8"
title_heading: "Aliens and Nationality"
number: "1444"
heading: "Photographs; number"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/8/1444"
units:
  - "Chapter 12 — Immigration and Nationality"
  - "Subchapter III — Nationality and Naturalization"
  - "Part II — Nationality Through Naturalization"
---

# §1444. Photographs; number

- (a) Three identical photographs of the applicant shall be signed by and furnished by each applicant for [naturalization](/usc/8/1101.md?p=a-23) or citizenship. One of such photographs shall be affixed by the [Attorney General](/usc/8/1101.md?p=a-5) to the original certificate of [naturalization](/usc/8/1101.md?p=a-23) issued to the naturalized citizen and one to the duplicate certificate of [naturalization](/usc/8/1101.md?p=a-23) required to be forwarded to the [Service](/usc/8/1101.md?p=a-34).
- (b) Three identical photographs of the applicant shall be furnished by each applicant for—
  - (1) a record of lawful [admission](/usc/8/1101.md?p=a-13-A) for [permanent](/usc/8/1101.md?p=a-31) [residence](/usc/8/1101.md?p=a-33) to be made under [section 1259 of this title](/usc/8/1259.md);
  - (2) a certificate of derivative citizenship;
  - (3) a certificate of [naturalization](/usc/8/1101.md?p=a-23) or of citizenship;
  - (4) a special certificate of [naturalization](/usc/8/1101.md?p=a-23);
  - (5) a certificate of [naturalization](/usc/8/1101.md?p=a-23) or of citizenship, in lieu of one lost, mutilated, or destroyed;
  - (6) a new certificate of citizenship in the new name of any naturalized citizen who, subsequent to [naturalization](/usc/8/1101.md?p=a-23), has had his name changed by order of a court of competent jurisdiction or by marriage; and
  - (7) a declaration of intention.

  One such photograph shall be affixed to each such certificate issued by the [Attorney General](/usc/8/1101.md?p=a-5) and one shall be affixed to the copy of such certificate retained by the [Service](/usc/8/1101.md?p=a-34).


## Source credit

(June 27, 1952, ch. 477, title III, ch. 2, § 333, 66 Stat. 253; Pub. L. 101–649, title IV, § 407(c)(14), (d)(11), Nov. 29, 1990, 104 Stat. 5041, 5042; Pub. L. 103–416, title II, § 219(w), Oct. 25, 1994, 108 Stat. 4318.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1994—Subsec. (b)(1). Pub. L. 103–416 substituted “1259” for “1259(a)”.

1990—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 101–649 substituted “applicant” for “petitioner” after “by each”, and “Attorney General” for “clerk of the court”.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date of 1994 Amendment

Amendment by Pub. L. 103–416 effective as if included in the enactment of the Immigration Act of 1990, Pub. L. 101–649, see section 219(dd) of Pub. L. 103–416, set out as a note under section 1101 of this title.

### 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.