Mr. Speaker. I reserve the right to object for the purpose of explaining to the gentleman that all this bill does is to protect the persons who derive their citizenship from their parents or from their husbands naturalization in the event that the original certificate is canceled. That point is not clear in the law. I understand that there are conflicting decisions in the various departments and that some have held that a cancelation of the original certificate of citizenship does affect the persons who derive their citizenship therefrom. All that this bill does is to clarify the law to the extent that a derivative citizen does not suffer the loss of citizenship in the event that the original certificate of naturalization is canceled under existing law. Under the present law. if a naturalized citizen takes up permanent residence in a foreign country within 5 years after becoming .naturalized. the Government presumes that when he obtained his certificate of naturalization he did so fraudulently. in that he never intended to reside permanently in the United States. His taking up of a residence in a foreign country within the 5year period is presumptive evidence that he never intended to fulfill the permanentresidence requirement under the law. This bill will not in any way change .existing law.
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