nFung Sing was born in
Washington in 1898.
nShe went to China with
her family in 1903 and married
a Chinese citizen in 1920.
nHer husband died in 1924 and she returned to the United States in 1925, where she was denied admission because she was ineligible for citizenship under the Immigration Act of 1924.
nShe argues that the
right to resume her American
citizenship was vested under the act of 1907.