This legislation makes it easier for persons. born to U.S. citizens living abroad. to claim U.S. citizenship or to reacquire citizenship where. under effect of laws now revised. such status was taken from them. The first proposed revision corrects a problem in law dating from 1934. Prior to the 1934. only U.S. citizen men could confer citizenship on children born outside the United States. The child of a U.S. citizen father and a noncitizen mother was a U.S. citizen. The child of a U.S. citizen mother and noncitizen father was not a U.S. citizen. In 1934. Congress revised that clearly discriminatory rule.
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