PATRICK

Interim Decision #3076 MAI 1.P.,11 OF PATRICK In Visa Petition Proceedings A-27243552 Decided by Board September 1, 1988 (1) In order to obtain preference status for the beneficiary as his son under section 203(aX1) of the Immigration and Nationality Act,

8 U.S.C. § 1153

(aX1) (1988), a pe- titioner must establish that the beneficiary once qualified as his "child" within the meaning of section 101(b)(1) of the Act, S U.S.C. § 1101(bX1). (2) Under the law of New York. the father's residence and domicile, legitimation of a child born out of wedlock requires the marriage of the child's natural…