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The US Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952, codified under Title 8 of the United States Code, revised the wording concerning Puerto Ricans, granting nationality to persons born in Puerto Rico on or after April 11, 1899, and prior to January 13, 1941, who had not been covered in previous legislation, and thereafter to Puerto Ricans at birth ...
United States citizens residing in Puerto Rico, whether born there or not, are not residents of a state or the District of Columbia and, therefore, do not qualify to vote, personally or through an absentee ballot, in federal elections. Puerto Ricans "were collectively made U.S. citizens" in 1917 as a result of the Jones–Shafroth Act. [13]
Isabel González (May 2, 1882 – June 11, 1971) [1] was a Puerto Rican activist who helped pave the way for Puerto Ricans to be given United States citizenship.As a young unwed pregnant woman, González had her plans to find and marry the father of her unborn child derailed by the United States Treasury Department when she was excluded as an alien "likely to become a public charge" upon her ...
The United States acquired Puerto Rico from Spain in 1898 after the Spanish-American War. The U.S. government bestowed American citizenship to the island's residents in 1917. Soon after World War II, the first large migration began to ease labor shortages on the U.S. mainland. There are now more Puerto Ricans in the U.S. than on the island.
The Jones–Shafroth Act (Pub. L. 64–368, 39 Stat. 951, enacted March 2, 1917) – also known as the Jones Act of Puerto Rico, Jones Law of Puerto Rico, or as the Puerto Rican Federal Relations Act of 1917 – was an Act of the United States Congress, signed by President Woodrow Wilson on March 2, 1917.
For decades in Washington DC, Puerto Rican leaders who champion the idea of annexing the island as a state of the union (statehood) have argued that their full rights as U.S. citizens are being ...
Judge Stanley Sporkin rejected the argument that a non-U.S. citizen had the right to enter Puerto Rico, noting that Puerto Rico was part of the United States for purposes of the Immigration and Nationality Act, and so aliens required documentation from the U.S. government in order to enter and reside there. [74]
When I was offered a dream job, I moved my family from the mainland US to Puerto Rico in 2015. On the island, we sometimes had no running water, struggled to get around, and items were costly ...