Segreti v. Acheson, Secretary of State

PROCTOR, Circuit Judge.

Appellant was born in Italy September 28, 1913. At that time her father was a naturalized citizen of the United States. He reacquired Italian citizenship by force of Italian law through continued residence in Italy from 1912 to 1919. Thus, appellant became a national of both countries. Perkins v. Elg, 1939, 307 U.S. 325, 59 S.Ct. 884, 83 L.Ed. 1320. In 1931-32 appellant visited the United States with her mother and sister for about a year, returning with them to Italy when eighteen years of age. Since then she has lived continuously in Italy. She became twenty-one years…