TAM

Interim Decision #1852 MATTER or TAM In Visa Petition Proceedings A-17113720 Decided by Board A.pri110, 1988 The 1$135 infancy adoption in China by U.S. citizen petitioner's wife (while peti- tioner was in the United States) of beneficiary, who was given to her by a midwife, and whom petitioner believed to be his natural son until blood tests proved otherwise in 1967, at which time he consented to the adoption, thus ratifying the prior act of his wife in accordance with Article 1(174 of the Civil Code of China, is not a valid adoption within the meaning of section 101(D) (1) (B) of the…