Legal Opinion
LEE
Board of Immigration Appeals
Decided July 1, 1978No. ID 2649PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
1.11VeL1111. ircArs, MATTER OF LEE In Visa Petition Proceedings A-21086636 Decided by Board May22, 1978 (1) Validity of adoption for immigration purposes requires, inquiry into law of jurisdiction where adoption occurs. (2) Validity of adoption in Taiwan in 1960 determined by the Civil Code of the Republic of China. (3) While there is no provision in the Civil Code pertaining to categories of adoptable relatives, a general principle of Chinese customary law in the ease of a legal adoption (the institution of an heir) was that the adopting party be of the generation immediately above the…