---
kind: "section"
citation: "8 U.S.C. § 1488"
title: "8"
title_heading: "Aliens and Nationality"
number: "1488"
heading: "Nationality lost solely from performance of acts or fulfillment of conditions"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/8/1488"
units:
  - "Chapter 12 — Immigration and Nationality"
  - "Subchapter III — Nationality and Naturalization"
  - "Part III — Loss of Nationality"
---

# §1488. Nationality lost solely from performance of acts or fulfillment of conditions


The loss of nationality under this part shall result solely from the performance by a [national](/usc/8/1101.md?p=a-21) of the acts or fulfillment of the conditions specified in this part.


## Source credit

(June 27, 1952, ch. 477, title III, ch. 3, § 356, 66 Stat. 272.)