Case ID: f_277/html/0969-02.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "ROSE, District Judge.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

In re GRAF.
    (District Court, D. Maryland.
    January 23, 1922.)
    No. 5805.
    Citizens ©=>9—Naturalization of minor surviving parent during Ms minority malms Mm a citizen.
    The son of alien parents, whose father died an alien, but whose mother remarried, and her husband was naturalized during her lifetime and the son’s minority, held to have thereby become a citizen.
    In the matter of the petition of Michael Graf for naturalization.
    Petition dismissed.
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   ROSE, District Judge.

The petitioner seeks naturalization. Both his Barents were foreign-born. His father, who was never naturalized, died while he was quite young. His mother married again, and- during her lifetime, and while the petitioner was still a minor, his stepfather was naturalized, and, in consequence, his mother also became a naturalized citizen. His only living parent having been naturalized while he was a minor residing in the United States, he thereby became a citizen. United States v. Kellar (C. C.) 13 Fed. 82; United States v. Rodgers (D. C.) 144 Fed. 711.

His petition for naturalization will accordingly have to be dismissed, because he is already a citizen.