Proctor

The appellant sought admission into the United States at the Port of Seattle, Wash., on May 8, 1935, as the foreign-born daughter of a native, Wong Gim. Her application for admission was denied by the Board of Special Inquiry at Seattle, from which decision she appealed to the Secretary of Labor at Washington, D. G, who dismissed the appeal and directed that she be returned to China. Petition for writ of habeas corpus was filed in the District Court and denied, from which order this appeal is taken.

The applicant, her alleged father, and her alleged brother, Wong Goon, appeared as witnesses before the board. The citizenship of the alleged father is conceded; the only question is that of relationship of the applicant to the alleged father.

It appears from the files that, the alleged father returned to the United States from China in January, 1919, after having been in China for a little more than three years. He claimed, as family, a wife, two boys, and one girl. At the examination for readmission he claimed that a boy and a girl had been born on this last trip to China, the boy, Wong Goon, and the girl, Gook Chun. Thus, we have the alleged father, in 1919, claiming a daughter of…