MAKE A MEME View Large Image Identification Photograph on Affidavit "In the Matter of Wong Kim Ark, Native Born Citizen of the United States."... - NARA - 296479.jpg Scope and content This is a photograph of Wong Kim Ark from an federal immigration investigation case ...
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Keywords: Identification Photograph on Affidavit "In the Matter of Wong Kim Ark, Native Born Citizen of the United States."... - NARA - 296479.jpg Scope and content This is a photograph of Wong Kim Ark from an federal immigration investigation case conducted under the Chinese Exclusion Acts 1882-1943 The administrative decision was appealed into federal courts and the habeas corpus case for Wong Kim Ark gained great significance in matters constitutional especially due process and immigration law as well as regarding citizenship Wong Kim Ark was born in San Francisco in 1873 In 1894 Wong went to China for a visit He returned to the United States in August 1895 but was denied entry by the San Francisco Collector of Customs on the claim that although born at 751 Sacramento Street in San Francisco Wong was not a citizen Wong appealed for judicial review of this decision by executive branch immigration officials From the US District Court in San Francisco his case went through the Circuit Court of Appeals to the Supreme Court The precedent-setting final ruling was that US-born descendants of immigrants could not be denied US citizenship regardless of their ethnicity or the nationality of their ancestors The centennial of the Wong Kim Ark decision was celebrated in 1998 by groups including the Asian American Bar Association of the Greater San Francisco Bay Area General notes 296479 Local identifier Department of Justice Immigration and Naturalization Service San Francisco District Office - NARA's Pacific Region San Bruno NRHAS 1000 Commodore Drive San Bruno CA 94066-2350 date 1904 05 14 - 1904 05 19 Record group Record Group 85 Records of the Immigration and Naturalization Service 1787 - 2004 Record group ARC 414 Return Certificate Application Case Files of Chinese Departing compiled 1912 - 1944 Series ARC 296477 File unit Return Certificate Application Case File of Chinese Departing -- Wong Kim Ark 12017/42223 1890 - 1931 File unit ARC 296478 Variant control numbers NAIL Control Number NRHS-85-INSSFDEPCAS-12017 42223 -1A Other versions <gallery> File Identification_Photograph_on_Affidavit_ In_the_Matter_of_Wong_Kim_Ark _Native_Born_Citizen_of_the_United_States _-_NARA_-_296479 tif tif File Identification_Photograph_on_Affidavit_ In_the_Matter_of_Wong_Kim_Ark _Native_Born_Citizen_of_the_United_States _-_NARA_-_296479 jpg jpg </gallery> NARA-cooperation PD-USGov Chinese Americans
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