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A BILL RELATING TO THE RESIDENCE REQUIREMENTS
FOR NATURALIZATION PURPOSES OF ALIEN WIVES OF
MEMBERS OF THE DIPLOMATIC AND CONSULAR
SERVICE OF THE UNITED STATES AND WIVES OF
OTHER EMPLOYEES OF THE UNITED STATES
GOVERNMENT STATIONED ABROAD

S. 2760

A BILL RELATIVE TO THE ADMISSION UNDER THE
IMMIGRATION LAWS OF WIVES OF AMERICAN CITIZENS

S. 3968

A BILL TO PROVIDE FOR THE CITIZENSHIP OF A CHILD
BORN OF AN AMERICAN MOTHER AND
AN ALIEN FATHER

AND

S. 4169

A BILL RELATIVE TO THE CITIZENSHIP OF MINOR
CHILDREN, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES

MARCH 2, 1933

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Printed for the use of the Committee on Immigration

UNITED STATES

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AMERICAN CITIZENSHIP RIGHTS OF WOMEN

THURSDAY, MARCH 2, 1933

UNITED STATES SENATE,

SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE COMMITTEE ON IMMIGRATION,

Washington, D. C. The subcommittee met, pursuant to call, at 10 o'clock a. m., in the mmittee room, Capitol, Senator Henry D. Hatfield presiding. Present: Senators Hatfield (chairman) and Copeland.

The subcommittee had under consideration the following bills hich are here printed in full as follows:

[S. 992, Seventy-second Congress, first session]

BILL Relating to the residence requirements for naturalization purposes of alien wives of members of he Diplomatic and Consular Service of the United States and wives of other employees of the United States Government stationed abroad

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of merica in Congress assembled, That paragraph (b) of section 2 of the Act entitled An Act relative to the naturalization and citizenship of married women," pproved September 22, 1922, is amended by adding at the end thereof the followg: "Residence by the alien wife of a member of the Diplomatic or Consular ervice of the United States or any employee of any department of the Federal overnment of the United States who is a citizen of the United States, at the ficial place of residence of her husband, shall be considered residence within the nited States."

[S. 2760, Seventy-second Congress, first session]

A BILL Relative to the admission under the immigration laws of wives of American citizens Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of merica in Congress assembled, That subdivision (c) of section 13 of the Immigra on Act of 1924, as amended by the Act of June 13, 1930, is amended by striking ut the word "Chinese."

[S: 3968, Seventy-second Congress, first session]

A BILL To provide for the citizenship of a child born of an American mother and an alien father Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That a child born without the United States since September 22, 1922, of an American mother and an alien father shall be a citizen of the United States upon the return to the United States of the American mother: Provided, That said American mother shall not have ceased at any time prior to er return to the United States to be a citizen of the United States.

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[S. 4169, Seventy-Second Congress, First Session]

A BILL Relative to the citizenship of minor children, and for other purposes

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That (a) section 1993 of the Revised Statutes is amended to read as follows:

"SEC. 1993. Any child hereafter born out of the limits and jurisdiction of the United States, whose father or mother is at the time of the birth of such child a citizen of the United States, is declared to be a citizen of the United States; but the rights of citizenship shall not descend to any such child unless the citizen father or citizen mother, as the case may be, has resided in the United States prior to the birth of such child."

(b) Section 5 of the act entitled "an act in reference to the expatriation of citizens and their protection abroad," approved March 2, 1907, as amended, is amended to read as follows:

"SEC. 5. That a child born without the United States of alien parents shall be deemed a citizen of the United States by virtue of the naturalization of or resumption of American citizenship by the father or the mother: Provided, That such naturalization or resumption takes place during the minority of such child: And provided further, That the citizenship of such minor child shall begin at the time such minor child begins to reside permanently in the United States."

(c) The amendments made by this section to section 1993 of the Revised Statutes and section 5 of the act of March 2, 1907, shall not terminate citizenship acquired under such sections before such amendments.

[S. 4169, Seventy-second Congress, first session]

A BILL Relative to the citizenship of minor children, and for other purposes

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That (a) section 1993 of the Revised Statutes is amended to read as follows:

"SEC. 1993. Any child hereafter born out of the limits and jurisdiction of the United States, whose father or mother is at the time of the birth of such child a citizen of the United States, is declared to be a citizen of the United States; but the rights of citizenship shall not descend to any such child unless the citizen father or citizen mother, as the case may be, has resided in the United States prior to the birth of such child."

(b) Section 5 of the act entitled “an act in reference to the expatriation of citizens and their protection abroad," approved March 2, 1907, as amended, is amended to read as follows:

"SEC. 5. That a child born without the United States of alien parents shall be deemed a citizen of the United States by virtue of the naturalization of or resumption of American citizenship by the father or the mother: Provided, That such naturalization or resumption takes place during the minority of such child: And provided further, That the citizenship of such minor child shall begin at the time such minor child begins to reside permanently in the United States."

(c) The amendments made by this section to section 1993 of the Revised Statutes and section 5 of the act of March 2, 1907, shall not terminate citizenship acquired under such sections before such amendments.

Senator COPELAND. Mr. Chairman, you will recall that we were appointed as a subcommittee of the Immigration Committee to hear Congressman John L. Cable. No man in the Congress since I have been here has been more active in the cause of good citizenship, particularly in preserving the rights of women in American citizenship, than Congressman Cable.

While I am glad the Democrats won the last election, yet I am regretful that, by reason of the landslide, we are to lose, for the time, at least, the eminent services of Mr. Cable. Frankly, I am sorry he is not to be in a position to give us the wise counsel he has in the past. As I understand it, Mr. Chairman, Mr. Cable has made a careful compilation of the history of the battle of the women to preserve their rights, and of the laws relating to women in citizenship.

I think that is all I have to say, Mr. Chairman, and I suggest that Congressman Cable be permitted to proceed in his own way.

Mr. CABLE. Mr. Chairman, I wish to thank you for the privilege of appearing this morning, and also in this manner to acknowledge the cooperation of members of this committee in the enactment of the original law of September 22, 1922, seeking to grant independent citizenship to women, as well as the two amendments of that act, namely, July 3, 1930, and March 3, 1931.

I submit for your consideration American Citizenship Rights of Women, giving, in chronological form, the laws of the United States, the decisions of the various courts, and the rulings of the executive departments on the rights of women in the United States relative to or based on their citizenship, with the historical background.

Senator Copeland, of New York, has been most effective in the passage of these laws by the Senate, and the women of America have expressed their appreciation and thanks for his work in assisting in placing on the statute books these laws now granting complete nationality and citizenship rights to women. In other words, women in America now have equal nationality and citizenship rights with

men.

Bills pending before the Committee relative to the citizenship of minor children, I trust, will receive favorable consideration.

(The statement submitted by Mr. Cable is as follows:)

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