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WONG KAM WO v. DULLES

No. 14550.

236 F.2d 622 (1956)

WONG KAM WO and Wong Kam Yin, Appellants, v. John Foster DULLES, Secretary of State of the United States of America, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Ninth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied September 20, 1956.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Nicholas W. Y. Char, Honolulu, Hawaii, Jackson & Hertogs, San Francisco, Cal., for appellants.

Louis B. Blissard, U. S. Atty., Charles B. Dwight, III, Asst. U. S. Atty., Honolulu, Hawaii, Lloyd H. Burke, U. S. Atty., San Francisco, Cal., for appellee.

Before HEALY, ORR and HAMLEY, Circuit Judges.

HAMLEY, Circuit Judge.

Plaintiffs brought this action to obtain a declaratory judgment of United States citizenship. Natives of China, they claim to have acquired citizenship at the time of their births, under § 1993 of the Revised Statutes,1 which was then in effect.

Holding that the father of plaintiffs had never resided within the United States, within the meaning of § 1993...

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