It has been determined that approximately 3.000 AmerIcans. nativeborn Americans. if you please. lost their citizenship because they voted in the elections held in 1946 and in 1948. when the fight against communism was the issue. Many hardships have resulted therefrom. These people have no way of returning to the United States except as quota immigrants. and with the Italian quota oversubscribed for upwards of 8 years. you can readily see how long it is going to take for most of these people to return to the country in which they were born. Significantly enough. between the end of the war and the time when the Italian Government ceased to require a visa to an American passport. nearly 89.000 Americans visited in Italy. Many of these people voted in these elections. Under the Nationality Act of 1940. section 401 (e). the mere fact that they voted. automatically deprived them of their American citizenship.
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