Anne, You wrote: < One of my ancestors got engaged within 3 weeks of arriving in the US, and married within 4 weeks of her arrival. Another ancestor on a different side ( both Hungarian) married within a month of her arrival in the US. Was it common to do this? The men they married were Hungarian immigrants, and had not become citizens yet.> Were these possibly situations where the male immigrants left Hungary alone and their "sweethearts" from home joined him in America? I don't believe becoming a US Citizen had anything to do with the ability to get married in the US. I know for a fact that my father legally married before he obtained his US Citizenship. Jerry

One did not have to be a citizen to get married then and you don't need to be to get married now. My grandparents didn't know each other in Hungary but met here...how I do not know...one spoke Hungarian and one spoke German but they married within a year of coming here. Elizabeth V. Cardinal evc1369@comcast.net