IMMIGRATION AND NATURALIZATION
Washington
IN ANSWERING REPORT TO
No. 53255/25
July 16, 1912
Inspector in Charge,
Immigration Service,
Honolulu, T. H.
In response to your letter of the 27th ultimo (140-C), the Department telegraphed you today to admit Dr. Sun Yat Sen immediately upon his arrival at your port.
You will remember that Dr. Sun was adjudicated a citizen of the United States on the ground that he had been born in the Hawaiian Islands by a decision of this Department dated April 28, 1904, subsequently, published as Department of Commerce and Labor Decision No. 20. While it is understood that Dr. Sun has recently stated in a magazine article written by him that he was born in China, and while undoubtedly, wherever his birth may have occurred, he fully established his status as a Chinese citizen by becoming the provisional president of the new public, so clearly is he a person whose exclusion from the United States was never contemplated by the treaty, laws, and regulations, that it is deemed that official cognizance should be taken of his generally recognized status and standing; hence. the telegram above alluded to.
Commissioner-General of Immigration
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