Court Opinion

ID: 9444089
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-03 19:40:54.030654+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:29:42.586406
License: Public Domain

MAGRUDER, Chief Judge
(concurring) .
I concur in the opinion of the Court. It is not apparent to me how our interpretation of the statute will result in “unsettling” the law relating to naturalization for many years. The only result will be — and this is quite a different thing — that the provisions of the 1940 Act will continue to govern a greater number of cases than the government would like, and that provisions of the 1952 Act will not be fully applicable for a greater period than the government would liké. For all we know, the Congress in so providing may have had in mind the equities of a situation like the present, where, at the date the 1952 Act went into effect, the petitioner had arrived almost at the threshold of American citizenship, following faithfully the procedures for acquiring a right to naturalization under the 1940 'Act. We are naturally loath to accept the 'government’s contention that the Congress intended to slam the door in the face of such an applicant for citizenship and to make him start all over again.