Legal Opinion
United States Ex Rel. Jelic v. District Director of Immigration & Naturalization, Ellis Island
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided July 17, 1939No. 405PublishedCited by 17 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CLARK, Circuit Judge.
The relator, a native-born Croat, now a practicing physician of Berlin, Germany, possessing a duly visaed Hungarian passport, sought admission to the United States as a visitor, asserting, as his objective, rest and cure of his health in this country. So far, he has found the pathway to his objective rocky indeed.
Arriving in this country oh February 2, he was delivered at Ellis Island on February 3, 1939. He was then examined before a Board of Special Inquiry, and testified through an interpreter in German. The hearing was continued until February 6, 1939, when he again…
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