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Re: Re: [TSL] Greek Ships or Shipping Companies
SmithinDC <SmithinDC@aol.com> on 12/31/1997


In a message dated 12/31/97 3:49:25 PM, you wrote:
>"He married my grandmother who was a U.S. citizen and I do not know
>whether that would automatically make him a U.S. citizen. They married
>in 1896. . ."
>Not only did he not derive citizenship by marriage to a US Citizen, she
>lost her citizenship! See Maura's posting on naturalization which gives
>an excellent over-view of the naturalization process.

Not exactly. US citizen women did not lose their citizenship by marriage to
an alien until the law changed in 1907. After the 1907 law, all US citizen
women who married aliens lost their US citizenship (presumably gaining the
citizenship of their husbands). Prior to 1907, from 1855-1907, US citizen
women only lost their US citizenship if they married an alien husband AND LEFT
THE US TO LIVE WITH HIM IN ANOTHER COUNTRY. So, in the example originally
posted, not only did the marriage occur prior to 1907, the couple also
remained in the US. Thus the woman did not lose her US citizenship.


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