Editing Leslie Charteris (section)

===Move to the United States===
Charteris relocated to the United States in 1932, where he continued to publish short stories and also became a writer for [[Paramount Pictures]], working on the [[George Raft]] film ''[[Midnight Club (film)|Midnight Club]]''.<ref>DelFattore 1989</ref>{{page needed|date=September 2016}} Charteris also wrote scripts for [[Alex Raymond]]'s newspaper comic ''[[Secret Agent X-9]]'' in 1935 to 1936. One story was drawn by Raymond, and the other two by Raymond's successor [[Charles Flanders]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.lambiek.net/artists/r/raymond.htm|title=Alex Raymond|website=lambiek.net|access-date=August 5, 2021}}</ref>

However, Charteris was excluded from permanent residency in the United States because of the [[Chinese Exclusion Act]], a law which prohibited immigration for persons of "50% or greater" Oriental blood. As a result, Charteris was continually forced to renew his six-month temporary visitor's visa. Eventually, an act of Congress personally granted his daughter and him the right of permanent residence in the United States, with eligibility for naturalization, which he later completed in 1946.<ref> Introduction by William Ruehlmann, The Saint in New York by Leslie Charteris, International Polygonics, Ltd., New York City, NY, 1988</ref><ref>{{citation | title = United States Congressional Serial Set | publisher = [[U.S. Government Printing Office]] |year = 1943}}</ref>