>>>I think at the time in question, the citizenship followed the >>>husband's, at least in the US. I know that when my grandmother >>>married my grandfather in the 30s, she lost her US citizenship and >>>became a Canadian citizen, even though she, and all her ancestors >>>for several generations prior, had been born in the US. She was >>>naturalized when my grandfather was. >>> >>>Susie B <susie314b+nanae@justREMOVEtheCAPS.net.invalid> >>> >>As you say, might be the year in question, but I've never heard of >>losing your U.S. citizenship when marrying a citizen of another >>country. But I could be wrong. It was Canadian Law, at least in >>the 1930s that stated that when a Canadian married a citizen of >>another country, they lost their Canadian citizenship and were >>considered a citizen of the spouse's country. Problem was, that in >>the 1930s, the U.S. did not recognize this law. In 1932, my mother, >>a Canadian, by Canadian law, was considered a U.S. citizen. The >>U.S. did not. She had to obtain a special authorization from the >>U.S. Consulate in Canada to accompany my father into the U.S. She's >>93, and still has her "green card". >> >>Andy Romano <romanoa@sdc.cox.net> > >Hi. Sorry, my grandmother married in 1915. This will teach me to >post when I am tired. Just checked the photocopies. She was >naturalized a US citizen in 1932 and my grandfather was naturalized >in 1934. My grandfather came to the States when he was 4 and of >course my grandmother was born here. > >Susie B <susie314b+nanae@justREMOVEtheCAPS.net.invalid> Hi there, My mother was born an American (Iowa) and moved to Canada when she married my father in 1927.. She was told that as long as she did not vote in Canada that she could maintain her American Citizenship. She never voted and she travelled all of her life on a US passport, which I have. She applied for and received her last passport just before she died at age 91+. She always told people that she maintained her citizenship in case my father ever wanted to move to the US as it would then have been comparatively easy for them to do so. When I was b. in 1928 I was considered a Canadian by the US government. When my brother was born in 1931 he was considered to be partly American and would have to decide before a certain age. I think he had to live 5 years between the ages of 16-21 years. My brother attended US colleges (Antioch and MIT) but did not become an US citizen at that time. Recently he applied to be a dual citizen. Now he and all of his 4 children and 10 grandchildren hold this distinction. This was possible because Mother was an American. When my sister was born in 1942 she was considered an American but would have to live in the US for a certain amount of time before she was a certain age.. She became a full US citizen after attending college in the US. She travelled with Mother when she was little, and her picture with mother was on Mother's passport. I have no idea what happened to people going from Canada to the US, but that is how it was coming this way for a woman American citizen in 1927. Bunny Turner Halifax, Nova Scotia Canada bunnypat@eastlink.ca