That Time American Women Lost Their Citizenship Because They Married Foreigners
None of these rules applied to American men when they chose a spouse.
by Tanya Ballard Brown
Mar 17, 2017
2 minutes
In March of 1907, Congress passed the Expatriation Act, which decreed, among other things, that U.S. women who married non-citizens were no longer Americans. If their husband later became a naturalized citizen, they could go through the naturalization process to regain citizenship.
But none of these rules applied to American
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