WONG KAY SUEY v. BROWNELL

Nos. 12092-12094.

227 F.2d 41 (1955)

WONG KAY SUEY, Appellant, v. Herbert BROWNELL, Jr., Attorney General of the United States, et al., Appellees. WONG POO SING, Appellant, v. Herbert BROWNELL, Jr., Attorney General of the United States, et al., Appellees. Emily WONG, Appellant, v. Herbert BROWNELL, Jr., Attorney General of the United States, et al., Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals District of Columbia Circuit.

Decided October 13, 1955.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Charles R. Richey, Washington, D. C., for appellants.

Mr. Lewis Carroll, Asst. U. S. Atty., with whom Mr. Leo A. Rover, U. S. Atty., Miss Catherine B. Kelly, Asst. U. S. Atty., and Mr. Albert E. Reitzel, Asst. Gen. Counsel, Immigration and Naturalization Service, were on the brief, for appellees.

Before EDGERTON, WILBUR K. MILLER, and FAHY, Circuit Judges.


EDGERTON, Circuit Judge.

These are exclusion cases that have been consolidated. The plaintiffs arrived in the United States in August or October, 1952. They claimed and were denied admission as citizens of the United States. Section 503 of the Nationality Act of 1940, 54 Stat. 1171, 8 U.S.C. (1946 ed.) § 903, provides that "if any person who claims a right or privilege as a national of the United States is denied such right or privilege * * such person, regardless...

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