Here is supplementary information on what East Indians faced in the 1930's in the United States. They could be here as both British Subjects and as permanent residents, but were not eligible for citizenship. We were allied with Great Britain. The British were trying to supress Indians here from supporting the Independence movement. It is certainly true that British agents associated with the British Embassy turned up when I was a child in every city Sri Nerode visited. Whenever he gave a speech in favor of independence, they gave a counter speech afterwards. I knew the two assigned and always greeted them by name. This was before U. S. laws were changed to allow Asians to apply for U.S.citizenship. The federal law was so severe that my mother, a natural born U. S. citizen from Colorado, automatically lost her citizenship when she married my father. She did not know this and voted as a non-citizen in several national elections. When the laws changed, she became a naturalized citizen. So they both have naturalization certificates, (hers # 479605, petition 373583, April 26, 1940, US District court of Los Angeles, his, # 6624773, petition 334770, June 13, 1950, District Court of Chicago.) The reason my father's is ten years later was the residence requirement, which was a ten year wait. My mother got credit for having been native born. Have you ever heard of anyone else who is both native born and naturalized? She is now 95. (I have been told that there is no record of U. S. naturalization for Yogananda. He did at one time have plans for going back, which may account for that. I heard about those plans from him as a child at our dinner table, about 1938.)
