I think it is fair. The situation was this: Under the present law the alien woman becomes a citizen immediately on her marriage. We did not think it was fair to require the regular period of naturalizationfive years. two years for declaration of intention and three years after thatand the reason we did not think it was fair is that she is living i family relations and presumably would be qualified for citizenship earlier than a woman who did not have that opportunity. In the second place. there would be a long wait when she would be virtually without a country. because after she had declared her intention to become a citizen her former country has disowned her. But we thought at least she should reside in the United States for one year.
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