Case Name: In re GRAF
Court: United States District Court for the District of Maryland
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1922-01-23
Citations: 277 F. 969
Docket Number: No. 5805
Parties: In re GRAF.
Judges: 
Reporter: Federal Reporter
Volume: 277
Pages: 969–970

Head Matter:
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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Opinion:
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- dur ing 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.