Ching Lan Foo v. Brownell

HOLTZOFF, District Judge.

This is an action for a declaratory judgment to review an order of the Attorney General denying the plaintiff an adjustment of his status as a permanent resident of the United States under Section 6 of the Refugee Relief Act of 1953, 50 U.S.C.A.Appendix, § 1971(d).

The statute in question provides in effect that any alien who establishes that prior to July 1, 1953, he lawfully entered the United States as a bona fide non-immigrant and that he is unable to return to the country of his birth, or nationality, or last residence because of persecution or fear of persecution…