FOREIGN DIVORCE DECREE: (Sanitized)

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP72-00310R000100420013-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 1, 2002
• Sequence Number: 13
• Publication Date: March 18, 1970
• Content Type: MF

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OGC 70-0424
18 March 1970
EMORAND1 FOR: Director of Personnel
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REFERENCE: OGC 69-2213, Memo for D/Per., dated
26 Nov 69, Subject: Foreign Divorce
Decrees: Consequences and Problems
Confronting Agency Employees
1. You have requested our views regarding the Jamaican
e involved In the subject case. It is our opinion that the
ble consequences and problems associated with foreign divorce
decrees as outlined in referent memorandum are so minimal in
this case as to be negligible.
2. Referent memorandum treat* with the Mexican divorce
in particular because it, alone among foreign divorce decrees, has
been the subject of considerable litigation and legal commentary.
The problems in these cases arise in part because the parties to the
divorce, citizens and domictliaries of one state, obtain a divorce in
a foreign state. In the case at hand, a Jamaican citizen has obtained
a Jamaican divorce, prima facie evidence that the Jamaican court had
jurisdiction over the parties or the subject matter. While a detailed
examination of the particular facts behind the subject divorce might
raise questions as to its validity, we are of the view that such an
examination in this particular case is not warranted.
3. With regard to the preferential naturalization procedures
available to a spouse of a U. S. citizen as discussed in paragraph 22
of referent memorandum, we are advised by the Naturalization Service
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ould not look behind the Jamaican divorce of a Jamaican
citizen. Therefore, the preferential naturalization procedures
would not in this case be denied the alien-spouse because of her
Jamaican divorce.
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