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U.S. Code as of:
01/19/04
Section 1426. Reproduction of naturalization or citizenship papers
(a) Whoever falsely makes, forges, alters or counterfeits any
oath, notice, affidavit, certificate of arrival, declaration of
intention, certificate or documentary evidence of naturalization or
citizenship or any order, record, signature, paper or proceeding or
any copy thereof, required or authorized by any law relating to
naturalization or citizenship or registry of aliens; or
(b) Whoever utters, sells, disposes of or uses as true or
genuine, any false, forged, altered, antedated or counterfeited
oath, notice, affidavit, certificate of arrival, declaration of
intention to become a citizen, certificate or documentary evidence
of naturalization or citizenship, or any order, record, signature
or other instrument, paper or proceeding required or authorized by
any law relating to naturalization or citizenship or registry of
aliens, or any copy thereof, knowing the same to be false, forged,
altered, antedated or counterfeited; or
(c) Whoever, with intent unlawfully to use the same, possesses
any false, forged, altered, antedated or counterfeited certificate
of arrival, declaration of intention to become a citizen,
certificate or documentary evidence of naturalization or
citizenship purporting to have been issued under any law of the
United States, or copy thereof, knowing the same to be false,
forged, altered, antedated or counterfeited; or
(d) Whoever, without lawful authority, engraves or possesses,
sells or brings into the United States any plate in the likeness or
similitude of any plate designed, for the printing of a declaration
of intention, or certificate or documentary evidence of
naturalization or citizenship; or
(e) Whoever, without lawful authority, brings into the United
States any document printed therefrom; or
(f) Whoever, without lawful authority, possesses any blank
certificate of arrival, blank declaration of intention or blank
certificate of naturalization or citizenship provided by the
Immigration and Naturalization Service, with intent unlawfully to
use the same; or
(g) Whoever, with intent unlawfully to use the same, possesses a
distinctive paper adopted by the proper officer or agency of the
United States for the printing or engraving of a declaration of
intention to become a citizen, or certificate of naturalization or
certificate of citizenship; or
(h) Whoever, without lawful authority, prints, photographs, makes
or executes any print or impression in the likeness of a
certificate of arrival, declaration of intention to become a
citizen, or certificate of naturalization or citizenship, or any
part thereof -
Shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than 25
years (if the offense was committed to facilitate an act of
international terrorism (as defined in section 2331 of this
title)), 20 years (if the offense was committed to facilitate a
drug trafficking crime (as defined in section 929(a) of this
title)), 10 years (in the case of the first or second such offense,
if the offense was not committed to facilitate such an act of
international terrorism or a drug trafficking crime), or 15 years
(in the case of any other offense), or both.
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