Jew Sing v. United States

This is an appeal from an order of the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington, Northern Division, denying a petition for citizenship on the grounds (a) that Jew Sing, a Chinese alien with an honorable discharge after some eight months service in the United States Army, who is seeking citizenship under Section 324 of the Nationality Act of 1940, lacks the good moral character required by paragraph (c) of Section 324, and (b) that the court was without jurisdiction ■ to grant the petition under Section 324 of the Nationality Act of 1940, Section 329(c) of that Act as amended depriving the court from acting where (as here) there is an outstanding final order of exclusion from the United States made by a Special Board of Inquiry of the Immigration Bureau.

Jew Sing was born in .China in 1902, and «entered the United States illegally in 1921. Until 1942 he engaged in the laundry and restaurant business in New York and Tennessee, in which businesses he behaved in a proper manner. He served in the United States Army from October 28, 1942 to June 24, 1943, and received his honorable discharge.

The testimony is uncontradicted that Jew Sing committed at least…