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1 Citizenship and Naturalization of Married Women 1 (1930)

handle is hein.immigration/citnatmarwo0001 and id is 1 raw text is: 71ST CONGRESS HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES I REPORT 2d Session INo. 1036 CITIZENSHIP AND NATURALIZATION OF MARRIED WOMEN MARCH 31, 1930.-Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed Mr. CABLE, from the Committee on Immigration and Naturalization, submitted the following REPORT [To accompany H. R. 10960] The Committee on Immigration and Naturalization, to whom was referred the bill (H. R. 10960) to amend the law relative to the citizenship and naturalization of married women, and for other purposes, reports it back to the House without amendment and recommends that the bill do pass. This bill would relieve certain native-born women who have married aliens, of some unnecessary naturalization requirements growing out of the expatriation act of March 2, 1907, and the woman's citizenship act of September 22, 1922, and hardships arising out of the restrictive immigration act of 1924. Complete independent citizenship for women has not resulted from the act of September 22, 1922. After more than seven years of operation, the working of this legislation has developed certain more or less technical difficulties, which H. R. 10960 proposes to remedy. PROPOSED LEGISLATION IN THE NATURE OF PERFECTING AMENDMENTS TO THE ACT OF SEPTEMBER 22, 1922 The native-born woman who married a foreigner on September 21, 1922, the day before that act became effective, and lost her American citizenship, was not, by the 1922 act, automatically restored to citizen- ship. She was given the right to repatriate herself by one year's residence in the United States, filing her petition in a court of com- petent jurisdiction, renouncing her doubtful allegiance to a country to which, in fact, she owed no allegiance, and whose nationality was thrust upon her without her consent, and by taking an oath of al- legiance to the United States. For example, Mrs. Emily Martin married an alien before the 1922 act and automatically lost her American citizenship. Later she

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