Chung Wing Ping v. Robert F. Kennedy, Attorney General of the United States

BASTIAN, Circuit Judge.

Appellants are Chinese aliens who entered the United States while crewmen aboard vessels lying at port in this country. Each has illegally remained in the United States and each has sought to adjust his status, pursuant to 8 U.S.C.A. § 1255 (1958), to that of a permanently admitted refugee from communism who had fled his native land because of persecution or fear of persecution on account of race, religion or political opinion.

Appellants’ first application to the Attorney General for discretionary relief under the statute was denied on the ground that existing…