In re Gee Nay Wai

EDWARD P. MURPHY, District Judge.

The petitioners in this matter are Gee Nay Wai, a Chinese boy, now 25 years of age and Gee Nay Yuk, a Chinese girl, now 21 years of age.

These petitioners arrived in the United States on June 19, 1952, and sought admission into the United States as citizens, i. e., as the foreign bom children of Gee Shue Chee, concededly a citizen of the United States. The petitioners’ claim for recognition of their citizenship was denied by the Immigration Board of Special Inquiry at the Port of San Francisco and subsequently by the Board of Immigration Appeals on the ground…