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The first legally-recognized same-sex marriage occurred in Minneapolis, [3] Minnesota, in 1971. [4] On June 26, 2015, in the case of Obergefell v. Hodges, the Supreme Court overturned Baker v. Nelson and ruled that marriage is a fundamental right guaranteed to all citizens, and thus legalized same-sex marriage nationwide.
As early as 1804, US Naturalization Acts specifically tied married women's access to citizenship to their state of marriage. [1] Provisions of the Naturalization Act of 1855 extended coverture [2] by tying wives' citizenship and those of her children to the citizenship of their white husband or father.
The territory of the United States, for the purposes of determining a person's period of residence, includes the fifty states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, and the Northern Mariana Islands, [116] specifically excluding residence in American Samoa, except for American Samoans seeking naturalization.
Marriage in the United States is a legal, social, and religious institution. The marriage age is set by each state and territory, either by statute or the common law applies. . An individual may marry without parental consent or other authorization on reaching 18 years of age in all states except in Nebraska (where the general marriage age is 19) and Mississippi (where the general marriage age ...
Those women who had resided in the United States would retain citizenship, if they continued to live in the country and did not renounce their American citizenship. Those women residing abroad at the end of their marriage, were required to register as an American citizen at a US consulate, within one year, in order to retain their citizenship. [7]
A green card, known officially as a permanent resident card, is an identity document which shows that a person has permanent residency in the United States. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Green card holders are formally known as lawful permanent residents ( LPRs ).
In the United States, 2.3 million marriage visas were approved from 1998 through 2007, representing 25% of all green cards in 2007. Even if the non-resident spouse was previously an illegal immigrant, marriage entitles the spouse to residency. [17] [better source needed]
Rusk, 387 U.S. 253 (1967) [a] declared that a United States citizen did not lose his citizenship by voting in an election in a foreign country, or by acquiring foreign citizenship, if they did not intend to lose United States citizenship. United States citizens who have dual citizenship do not lose their United States citizenship unless they ...