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Show UOUS UNITED STATES RESIDENCE, ONE YEAH CONTINUOUS STATE RESIDENCE, CERTIFICATE OF ARRIVAL IF HER ENTRY DATES FROM JUNE 29, 1906 ABILITY TO SPEAK THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND SIGN HER NAME IN HER OWN HANDWRITING, ETC. THE STATUS OF SINGLE ALIEN WOMEN IS NOT AFFECTED BY THIS LAW, AND WOMEN OF THIS CLASS MAY CONTINUE AS IN THE PAST TO FILE DECLARATIONS AND PETITIONS FOR THE PURPOSE OF BECOMING NATURALIZED. The act referred to further provides that no married woman whose husband is not eligible to citizenship shall be naturalized during the continuance of the marital status, and that she herself must be eligible to citizenship, Eligibility for citizenship is determined almost entirely be the question of whether the persons concerned are "White persons" or "persons of African nativity or African descent," as provided by Section 2169, Revised Statutes, and whether the husband is debarred from citizenship, because of withdrawal of declaration of intention under the act of July 9, 1918, for the purpose of securing immunity from military service during the recent war. It is further provided by the act in question that a woman citizen of the United States shall not cease to be a citizen by reason of her marriage after the passage of said act, unless she makes a formal renunciation of her citizenship before a court having jurisdiction over naturalization of aliens, but that any woman citizen who marries an alien ineligible to citizenship shall cease to be a citizen of the United States. Petition of a married woman will show the date and place of her marriage, as well as the name, date and place of birth of one husband. These facts will be entered in the 6th paragraph of petition. Omission of declaration of intention, or certificate of arrival, or both, as the case may be, will be explained by the following entry in the line immediately following applicant's first signature to petition: "Omitted under provisions of act of September 22, 1922." The customary fees of $1.00 for a declaration and $4.00 for a petition will be charged married women proceeding under this act. Certificate of naturalization issued to a married woman naturalized under this act will be on the regular form and in the customary manner. The name of the husband and the names of the minor children will not be entered on the certificate. In the future, do not enter the name of the wife on the husband's certificate. Give her name, and date and place of birth on the petition. The full text of the act will be published in the next issue of Naturalization Laws and Regulations which are destributed to clerks of courts from time to time. Any new Naturalization Regulations, other than as indicated above, adopted in pursuance of this new law will also be incorporated in the next issue. Rich. K, Campbell, Commissioner of Naturalization. |
