The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1922-09-28

The status of thousands of women
/ Kenosha as to their chances of be-
)ming American citizens is effected
a new federal law which became
Elective on last Friday night and at
sntion to which the clerk of the cir
ait court was called today. The act
oecifcally provides that the citizen
nip status of married woman shall
longer follow the citizenship rights
+ the husband. Fifty-seven aliens
ad petitions on hearing in the cir
uit court this morning and the wives
Z these aliens will be the first women
n Kenosha to fall under the rulings
{ the new law. Under the new law
hey are not made citizens by the
rider Of the court which grants their
usband full citizenship but they
aust be, naturalized themselves fol-
owing regular provisions of the law.
IN account of the Importance of the
rovisions of the new law in Kenosha
Jerk of the Circuit Court DeDiemar
las given out the following formal
statement from the Department of
labor:
By an act of Congress approved
September %, 1922, it is provided that
lfter that date the citizenship status
II a married woman shall no longer
ollow that of the husband, and that
thereafter married woman shall
nave the privilege of becoming natur-
alized on her own account.
The two principal classes of mar
RED women specifically referred to in
the above legislation, with, the means
each class must take in order to
acquire American citizenship, are de-
scribed below:
1. An alien woman marrying an
American citizen after the passage of
the above act, or any woman whose
husband is naturalized after said act.
She may become naturalized by fill
ing the usual petition for naturaliza-
tion and complying with all require
ments of the naturalization laws, with
the following exceptions:
OBJ No declarations of intention
required
(b) Only one years continuous
residence in the United States,
Hawaii, Alaska, or Porto Rico imme-
diately preceding the filing of her
petition required.
2. A woman who, before the pas
sage of the above act, was an American
citizen and lost her United States
citizenship by marriage to an alien.
She may become naturalized by fill
ing the usual petition for naturaliza-
tion and complying with all require
ments of the naturalization laws, with
the following exceptions:
(a) No declaration of intention
required
(b) Only one years continuous
residence in the United States,
Hawaii, Alaska, or Porto Rico imme-
diately preceding the filing of her
petition required,
(c) No certificate of arrival re-
CURED if during the continuance of
the marital status she shall have re-
sided within the United States.
Must Comply With the Law.
An alien woman married to an alien
at the time of the passage of the
above act, or who thereafter marries
an alien, may become naturalized by
complying with all requirements of
the naturalization laws, including
declaration, five years continuous
United States residence, one year con-
tinous state residence Certificate
of arrival if her entry dates from
June 20, 1906, etc.
The status Of single alien women is
not affected by this law, and women
of this class may continue as in the
past to the declarations and petitions
for the purpose Of coming naturalized.
The act referred to further provides
that no married woman whose husband
is not eligible to citizenship shall be
naturalized during the continuance of
the martial status, and that she her
self is determined almost entirely by
the question of whether the persons
concerned are white persons" or
persons of African nativity or Afri-
can descent" as provided by Section
2169, Revised Status, and whether the
husband is disbarred from citizenship,
because of withdrawal of declaration
of intention under the act of July 9
1918, for The purpose Of securing