HERMOSAS

Interim Decision #2231, MA iTbR OF HERMOSA In Deportation Proceedings A-14839916 Decided by Board September 28, 1973 The Philippine Islands have never been deemed part of the United States within the purview of the citizenship clause of the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution of the United States; hence, respondent's claim to United States citizenship under the provisions of section 1 of the Immigration Act of February 5, 1917, as amended, and the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitu- tion by virtue of her birth in the Philippine Islands on March 27, 1943, is without merit. CHARGE:…