Elliott lost her U.S. citizenship under the Expatriation Act of 1907.
On March 2, 1907, Maud Howe Elliott faced the unintended consequences of the Expatriation Act, which automatically revoked the U.S. citizenship of American women who married foreign nationals. Elliott, married to English artist John Elliott, suddenly found herself a British subject, highlighting the gendered legal barriers women faced at the time. This law underscored the struggles that women confronted in ensuring their citizenship rights, a cause Elliott would later champion.