I would think that since they were living in NY at the time of the marriage, that the wife would take the husband's citizenship as far as what U.S. authorities were concerned.  So as far as the U.S. was concerned, she became Italian.  If they left the U.S. it would probably be whatever their new country of residence said. Bobbi On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 10:07 AM, Kathleen Scarlett O'Hara Naylor wrote: How would this work when neither party was a US citizen, but they had different nationalities? For example: My (possibly) Brazilian great-grandmother married my Italian great-grandfather in NY. Would her citizenship have changed to Italian? Whose laws would have been relevant here - the US, Italy, or Brazil? Great-grandma's place of birth is in dispute, and her citizenship being recorded differently than I would have expected is part of the reason, but I haven't been able to find an answer to this. Kathleen  All > women marrying aliens became aliens.  It was a law for a short time. Correction: It was not for a short time, it was always that way.  It only changed in 1922.  ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message