Adolf Otto Fuchs v. District Director, Immigration and Naturalization Service

ALDRICH, Circuit Judge.

This appeal from the denial by the district court of a petition for naturalization involves unusual facts, but a settled principle. The evidence, which was essentially undisputed, was as follows. Petitioner, a Swiss national, entered this country as a permanent resident in October 1952. In April 1953 he registered with his local draft board; in May he replied to its questionnaire, and in June he was classified by it as I-A. Thereupon he wrote the Swiss Legation in Washington and was informed of his right to claim exemption as a treaty alien, and that “they would write a…