Petition of Zele

AUGUSTUS N. HAND, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from an order denying the petition of Eugene Zele for naturaliza*579tion. The petitioner first came to the United States as a visitor in September, 1929. On October 19, he filed a Declaration of Intention to become a citizen as a step in the fraudulent naturalization practices which were being then forwarded among aliens by Harold Van Riper who was convicted of such offenses. United States v. Van Riper, 2 Cir., 113 F.2d 929. It was, of course, the fact that Zele had no right to file a declaration as he was not a resident and only had the status of…