OBANDO

Interim Decision #2600 MATTER OF OBANDO In Visa Petition Proceedings A-21172362 Decided by Board July 20, 1977 (1) United States citizen petitioner filed a visa petition seeking to classify the beneficiary as his unmarried daughter, under section 203Ia)(1) of the Immigration and Nationality Act. Beneficiary had been born out of wedlock in 1953 in Belize. On December 15, 1976, the Municipal Court of St. Croix, Virgin Islands, issued a decree of legitimation under Title 16, section 462 of the Viigin Islands Code which provided that the beneficiary would be considered as the legitimate child of…