Speech #710212787

The Congress recognized that such a woman had been unjustly deprived of her American citizenship during the period of her marriage. and that a law which merely permitted her to resume her citizenship did not bridge the gap of lost citizenship during marriage. It was therefore sought to make her whole by restoring to her the status which she enjoyed prior to her marriage. Clearly. the Congress did not wish to give the American woman who had lost her citizenship by foreign marriage and prior to 1922 had resumed that citizenship under the expatriation act any advantage over the woman who lost her citizenship under the .expatriation act. and subsequent to 1922 became a naturalized American citizen. as per the terms of the Cable Act. That status the act clearly defines as we have stated. It is the status of one who has never ceased to be an American citizen.