Weedin

The appellee was admitted into the United States as the minor son of a domiciled Chinese treaty merchant as the result of habeas corpus proceedings in the court below, and the government appeals. The appellee is of the Chinese race and a native of China. He arrived at the port of Seattle on August 12, 1929, and applied for admission into the United States as a minor son of Yeung Won Fou, a domiciled Chinese merchant residing at Pittsburg, Pa. He was accorded a hearing before a duly constituted Board of Special Inquiry at Seattle, and his application was denied on three grounds, namely, that he was not in possession of an unexpired immigration visa, that his alleged father did not possess the status of a bona fide merchant, and that the appellee was not a son of the alleged father. The appellee thereupon appealed to the Department of Labor, and the Board of Review overruled the findings of the Board of Special Inquiry to the effect that appellee did not possess a proper visa and also that the father was not a bona fide merchant, but sustained the finding that the proof of ‘ relationship claimed by appellee was not sufficient and for that reason the appeal was dismissed and the…