United States v. Shapiro

J. F. T. O’CONNOR, District Judge.

Can the United States of America cancel a certificate of citizenship issued to an alien, where the evidence discloses that the alien secured both a visa and a passport which had been issued to another person, and the alien represented herself to be that person ?

This action is instituted under Section 338(a) of the Nationality Act of 1940, 8 U.S.C.A. § 738(a), to set aside and cancel the naturalization of Millie Shapiro as having been fraudulently and illegally procured.

The defendant, Millie Shapiro’s petition for citizenship was granted on May 17, 1932, and…