Wong Kay Suey v. Brownell

EDGERTON, Circuit Judge.

These are exclusion cases that have been consolidated. The plaintiffs arrived in the United States in August or October, 1952. They claimed and were denied admission as citizens of the United States. Section 503 of the Nationality Act of 1940, 54 Stat. 1171, 8 U.S.C. (1946 ed.) § 903, provides that “if any person who claims a right or privilege as a national of the United States is denied such right or privilege * * such person, regardless of whether he is within the United States or abroad, may institute an action * * * for a judgment declaring him to be a national of…