---
kind: "section"
citation: "8 U.S.C. § 1504"
title: "8"
title_heading: "Aliens and Nationality"
number: "1504"
heading: "Cancellation of United States passports and Consular Reports of Birth"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/8/1504"
units:
  - "Chapter 12 — Immigration and Nationality"
  - "Subchapter III — Nationality and Naturalization"
  - "Part IV — Miscellaneous"
---

# §1504. Cancellation of United States passports and Consular Reports of Birth

- (a) The Secretary of State is authorized to cancel any [United States](/usc/8/1101.md?p=a-38) [passport](/usc/8/1101.md?p=a-30) or [Consular Report of Birth](#b), or certified copy thereof, if it appears that such document was illegally, fraudulently, or erroneously obtained from, or was created through illegality or fraud practiced upon, the Secretary. The [person](/usc/8/1101.md?p=b-3) for or to whom such document has been issued or made shall be given, at such [person](/usc/8/1101.md?p=b-3)’s last known address, written notice of the cancellation of such document, together with the procedures for seeking a prompt post-cancellation hearing. The cancellation under this section of any document purporting to show the citizenship status of the [person](/usc/8/1101.md?p=b-3) to whom it was issued shall affect only the document and not the citizenship status of the [person](/usc/8/1101.md?p=b-3) in whose name the document was issued.
- (b) For purposes of this section, the term “Consular Report of Birth” refers to the report, designated as a “Report of Birth Abroad of a Citizen of the [United States](/usc/8/1101.md?p=a-38)”, issued by a [consular officer](/usc/8/1101.md?p=a-9) to document a citizen born abroad.

## Source credit

(June 27, 1952, ch. 477, title III, ch. 4, § 361, as added Pub. L. 103–416, title I, § 107(a), Oct. 25, 1994, 108 Stat. 4309.)