Laranjo

Plaintiff seeks a declaration under 8 U.S.C.A. § 1503 that she is a United States national, claiming a denial of her rights and privileges as a national because her application for a certificate of citizenship under Section 341 of the Immigration and Nationality Act has been denied. The pertinent parts of Section 1503 are:

Plaintiff is properly before this Court under Section 1503 since that section permits suit by “any person who is within the United States”, and plaintiff is lawfully within the United States.

Plaintiff’s application for a certificate of citizenship under Section 341 of the Immigration and Nationality Act was based upon the following facts:

Plaintiff’s father, Jose Garcia da Roza, was born in Portugal in 1863. Subsequently he came to the United States and was naturalized as a citizen on March 18, 1886. He returned to Portugal on October 25, 1886, was married there, and plaintiff was born there on June 22,1914. Plaintiff accompanied her parents to the United States on March 23, 1920, but the family returned to Portugal again in 1927. Therefore plaintiff claims citizenship through her father by virtue1 of Section 1993 of the' Revised Statutes, 10 Stat. 604 ,…