---
kind: "section"
citation: "8 U.S.C. § 1489"
title: "8"
title_heading: "Aliens and Nationality"
number: "1489"
heading: "Application of treaties; exceptions"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/8/1489"
units:
  - "Chapter 12 — Immigration and Nationality"
  - "Subchapter III — Nationality and Naturalization"
  - "Part III — Loss of Nationality"
---

# §1489. Application of treaties; exceptions


Nothing in this subchapter shall be applied in contravention of the provisions of any treaty or convention to which the [United States](/usc/8/1101.md?p=a-38) is a party and which has been ratified by the Senate before December 25, 1952: Provided, however, That no woman who was a [national of the United States](/usc/8/1101.md?p=a-22) shall be deemed to have lost her nationality solely by reason of her marriage to an [alien](/usc/8/1101.md?p=a-3) on or after September 22, 1922, or to an [alien](/usc/8/1101.md?p=a-3) racially [ineligible to citizenship](/usc/8/1101.md?p=a-19) on or after March 3, 1931, or, in the case of a woman who was a [United States](/usc/8/1101.md?p=a-38) citizen at birth, through [residence](/usc/8/1101.md?p=a-33) abroad following such marriage, notwithstanding the provisions of any existing treaty or convention.


## Source credit

(June 27, 1952, ch. 477, title III, ch. 3, § 357, 66 Stat. 272; Pub. L. 100–525, § 9(ii), Oct. 24, 1988, 102 Stat. 2622.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1988—Pub. L. 100–525 substituted “before December 25, 1952” for “upon the effective date of this subchapter”.