Volume 63
Private Law 81–409
For the relief of Teiko Horikawa and Yoshiko Horikawa.
Approved August 8, 1949
Statutory text
AN ACT
For the relief of Teiko Horikawa and Yoshiko Horikawa.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That, in the administration of the immigration and naturalization laws, provisions of section 13 (c) of the Immigration Act of 1924, as amended, which exclude
from admission to the United States persons who are ineligible to citizenship shall not apply to Teiko and Yoshiko Horikawa, minor twin stepdaughters of David Bailey Carpenter, a World War II veteran who married Yoshi Horikawa Higo, a Japanese national and the mother of such minor stepdaughters, on August 6, 1947, and for the purpose of the immigration and naturalization laws, Teiko and Yoshiko Horikawa, shall be considered to be the natural-born daughters of their stepfather, David Bailey Carpenter.
Approved August 8, 1949.