Costello v. United States

The petitioner became a naturalized citizen on September 10, 1925. The District Court for the Southern District of New York revoked his citizenship on March 9, 1959, in this proceeding brought by the Government under § 340 (a) of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952. That Act authorizes revocation of natu*267ralized citizenship “on the ground that such order and certificate of naturalization were procured by concealment of a material fact or by willful misrepresentation . ...”1 The petitioner, in 1925, swore in his Preliminary Form for Naturalization, in his Petition for Naturalization,…