Cheng Lee King v. Davis H. Carnahan, as Regional Commissioner of the Immigration and Naturalization Service

CHAMBERS, Circuit Judge.

Cheng Lee King, a merchant seaman born in Hainan Islands (now within the limits of Communist China), seeks adjustment of his immigration status as a permanent resident under Section & of the Refugee Relief Act of 1953. 1 He is a national of Communist China, but asserts he is anti-Communist. When eleven years of age he was taken to Singapore in the Malay States where he was a resident until 1939. He left there as a seaman that year and has never returned to Singapore or to China. Since leaving Singapore he seems to have established no residence other than his tenuous…