I'm sorry, there was some type of glitch that did not let my response go through. On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 11:03 PM, Irene R Salazar via wrote: > This happened to my grandma Irene in 1920's approx. She was born NYC > married a Russian. Next census she went from citizen to alien. By > next census after that, law changed and her citizenship returned. 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. 

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] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >