Ex parte Seid Soo Hong

Seid Soo Hong, petitioner in this case, is of the Chinese race. He is a boy 14 years old, who arrived .at the port of San Francisco in the company of his father. The father, Seid Soo, obtained a citizen’s return certificate for a trip to China in 1912, and was readmitted as a citizen in 1913. On later trips his application for a citizenls return certificate, has been denied. On the present trip he held, and was admitted to the United States on account of, a merchant’s return certificate. In reviewing the ease of the son, the Board of Review concedes that Seid Soo is a merchant and that Seid Soo Hong is his minor son. The Board also reviews the father’s claim to citizenship and rejects it. On these findings the petitioner would be admissible to the United States as the minor son of a merchant, if he had complied with the passport or visa regulations pertaining to the nonquota immigrants of his class. On this point the Board finds:

The pertinent rule of the Department of Labor reads as follows:

Examination of the record in this case shows that the father, Seid Soo, presented himself to the consul in Hong Kong and applied for admission for his son as the son of a citizen. The son’s…