In Re Laws

Petitioner, a native of Norway, filed a petition for citizenship in this court on March 30, 1944. Therein he alleged that he has continuously resided in the United States since October 25, 1911, that on May 29, 1929 he married a citizen of the United States and that said marital status still obtains. Naturalization is sought under the provisions of Sec. 310(a) of the Nationality Act of 1940, 8 U.S.C.A. § 710 (a), which in substance permits the naturalization of an alien, who married a citizen of the United States between September 21, 1922 and May 24, 1934, without the making of a declaration of intention and after only one year’s residence in the United States instead of five years’ residence, but subject to compliance with all other statutory requirements.

Upon the hearing of the petition it appeared that petitioner was convicted in Montana on May 29, 1940 of the crime of uttering fraudulent checks, and was sentenced to a term of imprisonment in Montana State Prison. He was paroled on November 29, 1940 and was discharged from parole on February 17, 1941. It further appeared that petitioner was arrested at St. Cloud in Minnesota in the year 1939 for uttering worthless checks,…