Kong Din Quong v. Haff

STEPHENS, Circuit Judge.

Appellant sought admission to the United States as a citizen thereof, basing his claim of citizenship' on § 1993 of the Revised Statutes, 8 U.S.C.A. § 6, which provides: “All children born out of the limits and jurisdiction of the United States, whose fathers may be at the time of their, birth citizens of the United States, are declared to be citizens of the United States; but the right of citizenship shall not descend to children whose fathers never resided in the United States.” His case was heard by a board of special inquiry appointed under § 17 of the Immigration…