Petition for Naturalization of Santos

BICKS, District Judge.

Numerous issues are raised in this contested naturalization proceeding, among them being whether an outstanding final finding of deportability is an effective bar. The material facts bearing on that issue are not in dispute.

Petitioner, a native and national of the Philippines, last entered the United States on September 26, 1951, as an accredited official of the Philippine Government. As such official, his status was that of a nonimmigrant.1 It continued until October, 1953 when his connection with that Government apparently terminated. He has stayed on as a private…