Speech #710201372

Manzi. 1928. 276 U. S. 463.) Seventh. When a foreign man who has declared his intention to become a citizen of the United States becomes insane before his naturalization is completed. and when his wife thereafter makes a homestead entry under the land laws of the United States. the wife and their minor children can be naturalized without any declaration of intention. upon complying with the other requirements concerning naturalization. No corresponding reduction in the naturalization requirement concerning a declaration of intention is made. however. in the case of a foreign man whose wife has declared her intention to become a United States citizen and has become insane before her naturalization is completed. the husband having thereafter made a homestead entry under the land laws of the United States. (Act of Congress. February 24. 1911. 36 Stat. 929.) Eighth. A legitimate child born outside the jurisdiction of the United States of a father having United States nationality at the time of the childs birth has United States nationality. provided that the father has at some time prior to the childs birth resided in the United States.