Wong Kwok Sui v. John P. Boyd, as District Director of Immigration and Naturalization Service at Seattle, Washington

Wong Kwok Sui came into the United States in 1951 from China without controversy. At that time, he asserted, and apparently still does, that his father was Wong Fook Quong (hereafter Quong), admittedly a citizen of the United States, and that his mother was Mar Toy Fung (hereafter Fung), an alien and resident of Hong Kong. Sometime in December, 1951, the Immigration Service issued him an identification card reciting citizenship. (He claims the initial procedures when he came into the country finally settled and concluded the question of his nationality. To this, we shall return later herein.)

Some months after arrival, Wong Kwok Sui’s (hereafter Sui) problems which concern us began when his alleged brother in Hong Kong made application for a travel document to come to the United States. All three, Sui, Quong and Fung, submitted to blood tests. The results showed the blood of Sui and Quong to be compatible but the blood types of Sui and the alleged mother, Fung, incompatible.

On January 6, 1955, Boyd, as district director of immigration, issued a warrant for Sui’s arrest on the ground that he was an immigrant not in possession of a valid immigration visa at the time of entry. A…