Wong Foong v. United States

The petitioner, Wong Foong, applied to the Immigration Service at the port of Seattle for admission into the United States as *682 a citizen of the United States. His application for admission having been denied, and petitioner having been ordered returned to China, he petitioned the District Court for a writ of habeas corpus. After the hearing, he was remanded to the custody of the immigra-tiop authorities, and this appeal is taken ' from that order.

The petitioner was horn in China on October 24, 1894, and his claim of citizenship depends on the status of his father at the time of the petitioner’s birth. The father, Wong Ping, was naturalized as a citizen of the kingdom of Hawaii on August 29, 1892. The provisional government of Hawaii was established on January 14, 1893. Thereafter, on May 11, 1893> Wong Ping returned to China on a temporary visit and remained there until June 6,1900, when he returned tol Honolulu, landing there on July 9, 1900, where he remained until late in 1907, when he was admitted into the United States at the port of San Francisco as an American citizen. On February 10, 1910, he returned to China, where he died in 1913. The petitioner’s brother and…