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Citizenship Lost -- And Regained:
The National Archives holds hundreds of repatriation oaths of American-born women. A 1907 congressional act stated that "any American woman who married a foreigner shall take the nationality of her husband." In 1915, the Supreme Court ruled that by agreeing to a marriage a woman "had simultaneously given her consent to expatriation." Only through death or divorce could a woman repatriate -- limits that remained until the Married Women's Independent Nationality Act of 1922. |