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Raw OLRC USLM XML zips @ release 119-100 (retrieved 2026-07-04 via Atlas depot), ingested with the standard pipeline: raw snapshot -> per-section OKF markdown -> manifest + checksums. Title 52 untouched. LegalText: 171 -> 11,221. Titles 12-54 await a clean OLRC retry. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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type: "LegalText"
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title: "8 U.S.C. § 137a"
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description: "Repealed. May 24, 1934, ch. 344, § 5, 48 Stat. 798"
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jurisdiction: "us"
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corpus: "united_states_code"
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kind: "code_section"
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title_number: 8
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title_name: "ALIENS AND NATIONALITY"
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chapter_number: "6"
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chapter_name: "IMMIGRATION"
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section: "137a"
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citation: "8 U.S.C. § 137a"
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status: "current"
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release_point: "119-100"
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release_date: "2026-06-26"
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source: "official"
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source_url: "https://uscode.house.gov/download/releasepoints/us/pl/119/100/xml_usc08@119-100.zip"
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source_identifier: "/us/usc/t8/s137a"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-04"
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confidence: "official"
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tags: ["legal", "us-code"]
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---
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# 8 U.S.C. § 137a - Repealed. May 24, 1934, ch. 344, § 5, 48 Stat. 798
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## Notes
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Section, act Sept. 22, 1922, ch. 411, § 8, as added July 3, 1930, ch. 826, 46 Stat. 849, provided as follows:
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“§ 137a. Married woman whose husband is native-born citizen and veteran of World War. Any woman eligible by race to citizenship who has married a citizen of the United States before July 3, 1930, whose husband shall have been a native-born citizen and a member of the military or naval forces of the United States during the World War, and separated therefrom under honorable conditions; if otherwise admissible, shall not be excluded from admission into the United States under section 136 of this title, unless she be excluded under the provisions of that section relating to—
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“(a) Persons afflicted with a loathsome or dangerous contagious disease, except tuberculosis in any form;
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“(b) Polygamy;
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“(c) Prostitutes, procurers, or other like immoral persons;
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“(d) Persons convicted of crime: Provided, That no such wife shall be excluded because of offenses committed during legal infancy, while a minor under the age of twenty-one years, and for which the sentences imposed were less than three months, and which were committed more than five years previous to July 3, 1930;
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“(e) Persons previously deported;
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“(f) Contract laborers.
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“After admission to the United States she shall be subject to all other provisions of [former] sections 9 and 10 and 367–370 of this title.”
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Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
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Savings ClauseAct May 24, 1934, ch. 344, § 5, 48 Stat. 798, provided that the repeal of this section should not affect any right or privilege or terminate any citizenship acquired under the section before such repeal.
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