Berenyi v. District Director, Immigration & Naturalization Service

A provision of the Immigration and Nationality Act requires that an alien who applies for naturalization as a United States citizen must establish that during the five years preceding the filing of his petition he has been “a person of good moral character.” 1 Another provision *632specifies that no applicant may be found to be a person of good moral character who, within that period, “has given false testimony for the purpose of obtaining any benefits” under the Act.2 The petitioner, an alien who entered this country from Hungary in 1956, filed a petition for naturalization in the United States…