A large collection of letters, memorandum, memos, a certificate, an application form, news clippings & other items. Examples are: stapled copy of letters (9/60) from constituent Oral S. McClellant Jr., Congressman Wilson, J. M. Swing (Commissioner, INS) & George K. Rosenberg (District Dir., Los Angeles, INS) re/ the complicated case of Carlos De La Corte being denied reentry into the U.S. in 1955; stapled copy of letters (May-June 1960) from Escondido resident Dr. Edgar R. Haley, Wilson, Kenneth D. C. Haley (Ph.D., Acadia University, Nova Scotia), Grace K. Bostic (Acting Head, Personal Dept., U.S. Naval Electronics Laboratory) & Sidney W. Sandburg (Civilian Personnel Officer, NEL) re/ a complicated story of Canadian born Kenneth Haley inadvertently losing his United States citizenship because he returned to the country of his birth for a period of three years. His mathematical skill was needed by the Electronics Laboratory. He had also served in the U. S. Army as an officer during World War II; letters (Apr.- May 1960) from ChulaVista constituent S. Harry Markey, Wilson & Roy D. Musselman (Acting Chief, Personal Census Service Branch, Dept. of Commerce) re/ Mr. Markey was “writing on behalf of a young man; Clemente Ceballos of Arizona Indian parentage, an epileptic, who would like to obtain citizen’s identification from the Department of Justice so the police will stop picking him up as an illegal emigrant.” This was termed derivative citizenship through his parents census records; a letter (4/13/60) from constituent Harry L. Foster (Save Co Services and Veterans Store) & Wilson’s reply (4/20/60) re/ a widow of a war veteran, Mrs. Marian DaMetrz, seeks citizenship; other items in this folder are: letters (Apr. & May 1961) re/ a Canadian in San Diego seeks Wilson’s assistance as to citizenship, asks political questions & Wilson responds; letters (Jan. 1961) re/ Wilson helps Mrs. Leticia C. Silva (born in the Philippines) achieved citizenship; letters (Feb. & Mar. 1961) re/ Wilson helps a prospective citizen (U.S. Army veteran) obtain naturalization papers; a stapled packet letters, an application form for citizenship & a Christmas card (1/60-1/62) re/ the complicated history of Mrs. Betty Hicks, an adoptee from Canada in 1923, who finally achieves citizenship; a stapled packet of letters & a Certificate of the Loss of the Nationality of the United States (5/58-4/62) re/ complicated story of Mrs. Elinor Anita Howarth Scott’s citizenship case; letters (June-Aug. 1962) re/ involved story of LCDR H. J. Hilleshiem (Ret.), born in Germany in 1920 & receiving citizenship in 1929, had to again go through the process of acquiring a certificate citizenship; letters (12/62-1/63) re/ another complicated example of citizenship loss. Australian born Mrs. Gladys L. Fernley came to the U.S. with her parents in 1904 and became a citizen in 1912 when her father was naturalized. Marriage, further complications over loss of citizenship led Mrs. Fernley to seek Wilson’s assistance in obtaining citizenship papers so that she and her husband could travel; note & memo (Apr. & May 1963) re/ potential citizenship loss for Coronado resident Katherine Okie; stapled packet of letters, memorandum & news clipping (Apr.-June 1963) re/ political statement from Congressman Wilson to New Citizen group in San Diego & news story of “Wilma Engineers Escape to Freedom” from Germany; letters (8/62-9/63) re/ Lemon Grove constituent Dr. Frank B. Gigliotti seeks Wilson’s assistance in “the application of Mr. Jose Gabriel Da Silva Correia to petition for citizenship;” letters (July-Oct. 1963) & copies of Rules of Procedure, Committee on the Judiciary & a committee print of “2. Sample Private Bill” re/ extensive commentary in support of Filipino Nilo Quero Orille, ATL, U.S. Navy to become a citizen of the United States; a letter (10/31/63) from Wilson to Mrs. Wilma Schroeder & news clipping featuring citizenship for Walter Eric Poppe re/ an opportunity for Wilson to push Republican Party issues.