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New Naturalization and Citizenship Legislation by the Congress

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 May 2017

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Copyright ©American Society of International Law 1929

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References

1 2d Sess., H. R. 349.

2 Ibid., H. R. 16440.

3 Clunet, See text of these two laws in Supplement to this Journal, pages 114 and 119.

4 It had been previously held in the case In re Tate (D. C, W. D. Pa., 1924), 1 Fed. (2d) 457, that there was no statutory power by which a court could issue a certificate of citizenship to one claiming to be a citizen through the naturalization of his father during the son’s minority.

5 It was held in United States v. Vogel (C. C. A., 2d Cir., 1919), 262 Fed. 262, that there is no power in a naturalizaton court to amend an inaccurate allegation of allegiance in a declaration of intention or petition for naturahzation through an order nunc pro tunc.

6 See 44 Stat. 654.