In re Kalpachnikoff

DICKINSON, District Judge.

The conclusion reached is that the applicant should be admitted to citizenship. There is but one question to be answered in this ease. We say this because the Bureau of Naturalization would recommend him as worthy of citizenship, were it not for the sole objection next mentioned. The Naturalization Act prescribes as a condition of citizenship that two citizens shall certify “that they have personally known the applicant to be [have been] a resident of the United States for a period of • at least five years continuously,” etc. It is made a further "condition that “it…