Mr. Hay to Mr. Newel.
Washington, January 29, 1902.
Sir: Your No. 453, of the 9th instant, forwarding the application of Juliaan Johan Becker for a passport, has been received.
The Department approves your refusal to issue a passport to him.
[Page 835]The case is clearly one covered by the following language in the Department’s Circular of March 27, 1899:
A naturalized citizen who returns to the country of his origin and there resides without any tangible manifestation of an intention to return to the United States may, therefore, generally be assumed to have lost the right to receive the protection of the United States. His naturalization in the United States can not be used as a cloak to protect him from obligations to the country of his origin, while he performs none of the duties of citizenship to the country which naturalized him. The statements of loyalty to this Government which he may have made are contradicted by the circumstances of his residence and are open to the suspicion of being influenced by the advantages he derives by avoiding the performance of the duties of citizenship to any country.
I am, etc.,