British women married Americans who have to live over here for long periods are in a legal position which leaves them without)
nationality, Under British law, the wife loses her nationality, but} she cannot become an American citizen until she has had a year's continuous residence in the United States. Not only has she to rogister at Bowstrect as the American she is not, but to report periodically to the police. She has no legal rights. It is a question as to what] would happen if her husband or deserted her. There has been no test case on the point. When it) comes to travelling on the Continent, all she can get are identification papers from the American Con. sulate or the British Home Office, affording her protection as the shadow of an American or the, ghost of a British subject.
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