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18 U.S.C. § 1017 — Government seals wrongfully used and instruments wrongfully sealed
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Whoever fraudulently or wrongfully affixes or impresses the seal of any department or agency of the United States, to or upon any certificate, instrument, commission, document, or paper or with knowledge of its fraudulent character, with wrongful or fraudulent intent, uses, buys, procures, sells, or transfers to another any such certificate, instrument, commission, document, or paper, to which or upon which said seal has been so fraudulently affixed or impressed, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than five years, or both.
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Whoever fraudulently or wrongfully affixes or impresses the seal of any department or agency of the United States, to or upon any certificate, instrument, commission, document, or paper or with knowledge of its fraudulent character, with wrongful or fraudulent intent, uses, buys, procures, sells, or transfers to another any such certificate, instrument, commission, document, or paper, to which or upon which said seal has been so fraudulently affixed or impressed, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than five years, or both.
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TITLE 18—CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE
§ 1015
§ 1015. Naturalization, citizenship or alien reg-
istry
(a) Whoever knowingly makes any false state-
ment under oath, in any case, proceeding, or
matter relating to, or under, or by virtue of any
law of the United States relating to naturaliza-
tion, citizenship, or registry of aliens; or
(b) Whoever knowingly, with intent to avoid
any duty or liability imposed or required by law,
denies that he has been naturalized or admitted
to be a citizen, after having been so naturalized
or admitted; or
(c) Whoever uses or attempts to use any cer-
tificate of arrival, declaration of intention, cer-
tificate of naturalization, certificate of citizen-
ship or other documentary evidence of natu-
ralization or of citizenship, or any duplicate or
copy thereof, knowing the same to have been
procured by fraud or false evidence or without
required appearance or hearing of the applicant
in court or otherwise unlawfully obtained; or
(d) Whoever knowingly makes any false cer-
tificate, acknowledgment or statement con-
cerning the appearance before him or the taking
of an oath or affirmation or the signature, attes-
tation or execution by any person with respect
to any application, declaration, petition, affi-
davit, deposition, certificate of naturalization,
certificate of citizenship or other paper or writ-
ing required or authorized by the laws relating
to immigration, naturalization, citizenship, or
registry of aliens; or
(e) Whoever knowingly makes any false state-
ment or claim that he is, or at any time has
been, a citizen or national of the United States,
with the intent to obtain on behalf of himself, or
any other person, any Federal or State benefit
or service, or to engage unlawfully in employ-
ment in t
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