In re Katsujiro Akiyama

Habeas corpus to Walter E. Carr, District Director Immigration Service, District No. 1, Department of Labor, in Los Angeles, in behalf of Katsujiro Akiyama and Shizuko Akiyama.

Petitioners are husband and wife and natives of Japan. The husband, Katsujiro Akiyama, first came to the United States in 1918 and remained here until 1926. He then returned to Japan on a visit,' married petitioner, Shizuko Akiyama, and bbth then secured from the American Consul at Yokohama visas showing them to be trade treaty aliens under the provisions of section 3 of the Immigration Act of 1924- (8 USCA § 203). They then sailed for San Francisco, arriving on June 18, 1926, and were admitted as trade treaty aliens.

In 1930 they applied to the Commissioner General of Immigration at Washington, D. C., for re-entry permits provided in section 10 (a) of the 1924 Act (8 USCA § 210 (a).

The Commissioner General, finding that they had been legally admitted to the United •States, and that their application had been made in good faith, with the approval of the Secretary of Labor, issued to them a permit to re-enter, authorized by subdivision b of the section referred to. They visited Japan, and at the…