Legal Opinion

A-D-L

Board of Immigration Appeals

Decided July 1, 1960No. ID 1007Published

1Opinion of the Court

MATTER OF A D IJ In DEPORTATION Proceedings A-8961899 Decided by Board May 26, 1959 Decided by Board March 10, 1960 Citizenship—Acquisition through naturalized Hawaiian citizen—Burden of proof—Prior administrative holdings recognizing parent's citizenship not overcome by inability to find Hawaiian law conferring Hawaiian nationality on minor children of naturalized Hawaiian citizens. (1) A person born in China in 1889 of a father who had been naturalized as a citizen of Hawaii in 1892 (a) Did not acquire Hawaiian nationality under the doctrine of jus san- mauls and, accordingly, did not…

2Cases cited3 opinions

  1. United States Ex Rel. Bilokumsky v. TodSupreme Court of the United States · 1923
  2. Wong Foong v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1934
  3. Lee Hon Lung v. DullesDistrict Court, D. Hawaii · 1959

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