Siw Oi v. Nagle

GILBERT, Circuit Judge.

On October 10, 1923, Siw Kwai Wing, a native-born citizen of the United States and a merchant therein, married in China Young Shoop Yin, his third wife. In 1924 he returned to the United States, bringing with him his said wife and Siw Oi, a Chinese orphan girl nine years of age. He was admitted as a citizen of the United States. His wife sought admission as the wife of a citizen, and admission was sought for the minor child as the adopted daughter of a citizen. Upon a hearing before a board of special inquiry, it was shown that while in China a clansman of Siw Kwai Wing…