DUAL NATIONALITY

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 126, 24 November 1926, Page 9

DUAL NATIONALITY

PEOBLEM OF MARRIED WOMEN.

LONDON, 22nd Nov. The Committee on Nationality, whose recommendations ■were adapted by the Conference, considered in all its bearings the question of the nationality of married women, to which women's organisations throughout the Empire had drawa attention. Despite the difficulties of dual nationalities arising therefrom, some delegates favoured legal amendments giving British women an opportunity of retaining their nationality, no matter whom they married, but In view of the importance of uniformity throughout the Empire, the committee made no recommendation pending the possibility of an international agreement on the two questions of dual nationality and no nationality by the League of Nations' expert committee on the codification of international law. The committee recommended an amendment of tie British Nationality and Status of • Aliens Act of 1914 in order to facilitate the acquisition of British' nationality by children of the third generation born abroad of British parents during the war, also extending the time for registration of Britishers' children of the second generation born abroad. Further, it recommended amendments to provide that British subjects by naturalisation shall be obliged to register at the British Consulate annually, while resident abroad, also empowering the revocation of naturalisation certificates in cases—(l) of a -R-idow of a British subject by naturalisation, (2) of a person who acquired British -lationality. through residence with parents in the United Kingdom, and (3) if a person who during two years had not complied with the obligation to register. »