Vilis Martins Lapenieks v. Immigration and Naturalization Service, Department of Justice, Etc.

BEEKS, District Judge.

This appeal is from an order of the District Court denying a petition for naturalization filed pursuant to 8 U.S.C. § 1427. The trial court denied the petition on the ground that in 1952 the appellant had availed himself of an exemption from military service, as a Latvian national residing in the United States, where one of the conditions of claiming said exemption was permanent ineligibility for citizenship. In 1956, a change in Selective Service regulations eliminated the exemption, and appellant was reclassified I-A. He never served in the military, however, because…