Wong Suey Ming v. Dulles

FORD, District Judge.

This suit seeks a declaratory judgment that the plaintiff Wong Suey Ming is a citizen and national of the United States by virtue of the fact that he is the son of Wong Quan Yem, a United States citizen.

The American Consul at Hong Kong, China, refused to issue a certificate of identity1 to the plaintiff to permit him to enter the United States and testify in these proceedings after refusing on November 15, 1951 to recognize on application to the consul (made June 28, 1951) his claim of right as a national of the United States to an American passport.

Wong Quan Yem arrived…