Legal Opinion
RODRIGUEZ
Board of Immigration Appeals
Decided July 1, 1973No. 2195PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Interim Decision #2195 MATTER OF RODRIGUEZ In Visa Petition Proceedings A-20034976 Decided by Board April 13, 1973 The validity of the adoption of a child under Chinese customary law in Hong Kong in 1967 is not vitiated by the fact the child was adopted by an unmarried woman. ON BEHALF OF PETITIONER: ON BEHALF OF SERVICE: Pro se Robert A. Vielhaber Appellate Trial Attorney (Brief filed) The United States citizen petitioner applied for immediate relative status for the beneficiary as his stepson (an adopted child of his wife) under section 201(b) of the Immigration and National- ity Act. The…