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PART IV

OTHER PROBLEMS AND RESPONSIBILITIES

NEW REGULATIONS GOVERNING THE ISSUANCE OF PASSPORTS— EMERGENCY PASSPORTS

File No. 300.11/8a

The Secretary of State to the Ambassadors and Ministers in European Countries

[Circular telegram]

DEPARTMENT OF STATE, Washington, August 1, 1914. You are authorized to issue emergency passports to American citizens who request them. Inform Department if additional blank passports are needed. May temporarily use typewritten forms if necessary. Direct all consular officers to advise American citizens within their districts to register and to give duplicate certificates of registration, with wafer seals attached, to all persons registered who do not bear passports. In case of emergency certificates of registration may be issued directly from consular agencies. Standing instructions concerning expatriation are to be observed. Afford protection to all Americans needing or requesting it. Communicate Department each request for financial assistance, with circumstances of case, and United States address of relatives, and whether consuls have difficulty in drawing on Department for funds deposited by relatives. Advise Americans to avoid remote places and unnecessary risks and to stay in capitals or large cities near sailing ports if they must remain abroad.

BRYAN

File No. 138.4/19a

The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in Austria-Hungary

(Penfield)1

[Telegram]

DEPARTMENT OF STATE, Washington, August 10, 1914.

In case consular registration certificates are not accepted by local officials for residence, travel, or exit in place of passports, direct consuls, except consul at Vienna, to issue emergency passports under

'The same, mutatis mutandis, to other ambassadors and ministers in Europe.

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their official seals and signatures until further notice, and for that purpose to have blank passports printed, Form No. 9. Applications should be taken in duplicate, and extra copies sent to the Department through Embassy. Caution consuls to require positive evidence of citizenship. Fees are not to be required for issuance of emergency passports or execution of applications therefor. Report doubtful cases with home address.

BRYAN

File No. 138,4/22

The Ambassador in France (Herrick) to the Secretary of State

[Telegram]

AMERICAN EMBASSY,

Paris, undated.

[Received August 11, 1914, 7.30 p. m.] Earnestly request immediate instructions concerning granting individuals holding first papers certificate of identity to secure temporary permis de sejour pending opportunity to return to United States.

[File copy not signed]

The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in France (Herrick)

[Telegram]

DEPARTMENT OF STATE, Washington, August 12, 1914. Certificates of identity may be issued to persons holding first papers, provided seven years have not elapsed and residence of a permanent nature has not been acquired abroad since they were obtained. Inform Consulate General.

BRYAN

File No. 138.4/27a

The Acting Secretary of State to the Ambassadors and Ministers in European Countries

[Circular telegram]

DEPARTMENT OF STATE, Washington, September 12, 1914. The Department is informed that many persons not American citizens apply for American passports and consular registration certificates to enable them to leave their native lands, or other European countries, and come to this country, some of them for the special purpose of evading military service. It is, therefore, especially important to observe standing instructions concerning the issuance of these documents. Regular emergency passports and consular registration certificates should be issued only to native and naturalized American citizens and citizens of the insular possessions. Native citizens can not be required to produce birth certificates, but should

be required to submit satisfactory identification. In doubtful cases they should be required to give references to persons in this country of whom the Department may make inquiries. Persons claiming citizenship through naturalization should be required to submit naturalization certificates or old passports. If not provided with such documents, the Department should be informed by telegraph of name of court in which naturalization is alleged, and date, so that inquiries may be made.

Limited passports, under Section 1, act of March 2, 1907, may be issued by embassies and legations only to persons who have resided in this country three years, have made declarations of their intention to become American citizens, and have sojourned abroad for less than six months. They should not be issued in countries of which applicants are natives, and they should contain statements that they are not valid in such countries. They should be issued only to persons desiring to return immediately to the United States, and should not be issued to persons desiring to visit countries with which their native countries are at war.

Special consular registration certificates may be issued to wives of persons in the United States who have resided here for more than three years and have made declarations of their intention to become American citizens. Such certificates should not describe the holders as American citizens, but should set forth their exact status. Other than the above, no formal documents should be issued by embassies, legations, or consulates of the United States to persons abroad. In cases of doubt, Department's authorization should be obtained before passports or registration certificates are issued. Repeat to consulates.

LANSING

File No. 138.4/29

The Ambassador in Germany (Gerard) to the Secretary of State

[Telegram]

AMERICAN EMBASSY, Berlin, September 25, 1914. [Received, September 27.]

310. Your unnumbered, undated telegram re Karl Gudde.1 Acting under instructions in your number 44, September 13,2 Embassy has been issuing limited passports to persons who have lived in United States three years and have declared their intention to become American citizens and have sojourned abroad for less than six months. As Foreign Office here does not recognize consular registration certificates as equivalent of passports, Embassy has also issued passports to wives of persons of this class. Inform if this is approved. GERARD

1 Not printed.

2

Erroneous reference; should be the foregoing telegram.

The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in Germany (Gerard)

[Telegram]

DEPARTMENT OF STATE, Washington, October 6, 1914.

338. Your 310, 25th. You should not issue passports to declarants of German birth. Law does not authorize issuance of passports to wives of declarants. Consuls may register and furnish them certificates specifying their status. Ask permission of German Government for their departure with such certificates in lieu of passports.

BRYAN

[Unnumbered]

Executive order of November 13, 1914

RULES GOVERNING THE GRANTING AND ISSUING OF PASSPORTS IN THE UNITED STATES

1. By whom issued and refusal to issue. No one but the Secretary of State may grant and issue passports in the United States (Revised Statutes, Sections 4075, 4078) and he is empowered to refuse them in his discretion.

Passports are not issued by American diplomatic and consular officers abroad, except in cases of emergency; and a citizen who is abroad and desires to procure a passport must apply therefor through the nearest diplomatic or consular officer to the Secretary of State.

Applications for passports by persons in Porto Rico or the Philippines should be made to the Chief Executives of those Islands. The evidence required of such applicants is similar to that required of applicants in the United States.

2. Fee. By Act of Congress approved March 23, 1888, a fee of one dollar is required to be collected for every citizen's passport. That amount in currency or postal money order should accompany each application made by a citizen of the United States. Orders should be made payable to the Disbursing Clerk of the Department of State. Drafts or checks will not be accepted.

3. Applications. A person who is entitled to receive a passport, if within the United States, must make a written application, in the form of an affidavit, to the Secretary of State. The application must be made by the person to whom the passport is to be issued and signed by him, as it is not competent for one person to apply for another.

The affidavit must be made before a clerk of a Federal or State Court within the jurisdiction of which the applicant or his witness resides, and the seal of the court must be affixed.

If the applicant signs by mark, two attesting witnesses to his signature are required. The applicant is required to state the date and place of his birth, his occupation, the place of his permanent residence, and within what length of time he will return to the United States with the purpose of residing and performing the duties of citizenship. He is also required to state the names of the foreign countries which he expects to visit, and, if any such country

is at war, he must state the object of his visit thereto. The latter statement should be brief and general in form, thus: "commercial business"; "to attend to the settlement of an estate"; "to bring wife and children to this country".

The applicant must take the oath of allegiance to the Government of the United States.

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The application must be accompanied by a description of the person applying, and should state the following particulars, viz: Age, ; stature, inches (English measure); forehead, ; chin,

face,

; eyes, ; hair,

; nose,
; complexion,

; mouth, ;

The application must be accompanied by an affidavit from at least one credible witness that the applicant is the person he represents himself to be, and that the facts stated in the application are true to the best of the witness's knowledge and belief. This affidavit must be made before the clerk of the court before whom the application is executed and the witness must be an American citizen who resides within the jurisdiction of the court. The applicant or his witness must be known to the clerk of the court before whom the application is executed, or must be able to satisfy such officer as to his identity and the bona fides of the application.

4. Native citizens. An application containing the information indicated by rule 3 will be sufficient evidence in the case of a native citizen.1

A person of the Chinese race, alleging birth in the United States, must obtain from the Commissioner of Immigration or Chinese Inspector in Charge at the port through which he proposes to leave the country a certificate upon his application, under the seal of such officer, showing that there has been granted to him by the latter a return certificate in accordance with rule 16 of the Chinese Regulations of the Department of Labor. For this purpose special blank forms of application for passports are provided.

Passports issued by the Department of State or its diplomatic or consular representatives are intended for identification and protection in foreign countries, and not to facilitate entry into the United States, immigration being under the supervision of the Department of Labor.

5. A person born abroad whose father was a native citizen of the United States. In addition to the statements required by rule 3, his application must show that his father was born in the United States, resided therein, and was a citizen at the time of the applicant's birth. The Department may require that this affidavit be supported by that of one other citizen acquainted with the facts.

6. Naturalized citizens. In addition to the statements required by rule 3, a naturalized citizen must transmit his certificate of naturalization, or a duly certified copy of the court record thereof, with his application. It will be returned to him after inspection. He must state in his affidavit when and from what port he emigrated to this country, what ship he sailed on, where he has lived since his arrival in the United States, when and before what court he was

1 But a person born in the United States in a place where births are recorded should submit a birth certificate with his application.

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