Dow v. United States is a United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit case in which a Syrian immigrant, George Dow, appealed two lower court decisions denying his application for naturalization as a United States citizen. Following the lower court decisions in Ex Parte Dow (1914) and In re Dow (1914), Dow v. United States resulted in the Circuit Court’s affirmation of the petitioner’s right to naturalize based, in the words of Circuit Judge Woods, on “the generally received opinion . . . that the inhabitants of a portion of Asia, including Syria, [are] to be classed as white persons”.