Attorney General v. Ricketts

HEALY, Circuit Judge.

This case presents a problem of dual nationality as affected by a provision of the Nationality Act of 1940, 8 U.S.C.A. § 801.

Appellee’s claim of American citizenship being denied by the Immigration and Naturalization Service he sued below to obtain a judgment declaring him to be a national *194of the United States.1 The facts found by the court were that he was born in Oklahoma on February 3, 1902 of native-born parentage. When he was eight years of age his parents took him to Canada where the father, in 1914, became a naturalized British subject. Appellee continued to reside…