KWOCK JAN FAT v. WHITE

No. 313.

253 U.S. 454 (1920)

KWOCK JAN FAT v. WHITE, AS COMMISSIONER OF IMMIGRATION AT THE PORT OF SAN FRANCISCO.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided June 7, 1920.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. J.H. Ralston, with whom Mr. Dion R. Holm was on the brief, for petitioner.

Mr. Assistant Attorney General Stewart and Mr. H.S. Ridgely, for respondent, submitted.


MR. JUSTICE CLARKE delivered the opinion of the court.

In January, 1915, Kwock Jan Fat, the petitioner, intending to leave the United States on a temporary visit to China, filed with the Commissioner of Immigration for the Port of San Francisco an application, as provided for by law, for a "preinvestigation of his claimed status as an American citizen by birth."

He claimed that he was eighteen years of age, was born at Monterey, California, was the son of...

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