United States ex rel. Yee Kwong Seung v. Director of Immigration & Naturalization

COXE, District Judge.

This writ challenges an excluding decision denying admission to Yee Gwock Ming, a Chinese boy of fifteen, who claims to be a son of Yee Kwong Seung, a native United States citizen. The Board of Special Inquiry held that the relationship had not been reasonably established, and its decision was, on appeal, affirmed by the Board of Review.

The citizenship of the alleged father was conceded; it was also conceded that the alleged father could have been in China at a time to make possible his paternity to the applicant. The Board discovered, however, a serious discrepancy in…