8 U.S.C. § 1489

December 25, 1952Provided, howeverSeptember 22, 1922March 3, 1931Nothing in this subchapter shall be applied in contravention of the provisions of any treaty or convention to which the United States is a party and which has been ratified by the Senate before : , That no woman who was a national of the United States shall be deemed to have lost her nationality solely by reason of her marriage to an alien on or after , or to an alien racially ineligible to citizenship on or after , or, in the case of a woman who was a United States citizen at birth, through residence abroad following such marriage, notwithstanding the provisions of any existing treaty or convention.