TAGLE

Interim Decision #2476 MATTER OF TAGLE In Visa Petition Proceedings A-20800319 Decided by Board March 3, 1976 Since the Civil Code of the Dominican Republic, as amended by Law 142 in 1971, does not require a waiting period for pronouncement of a mutual consent divorce obtained by foreigners, the mutual consent divorce terminating the marriage between beneficiary and his first wife (both Ecuadorians), which was obtained in the Dominican Republic and pronounced on the day the judgment was rendered, is valid under the law of the Dominican Republic and, hence, is entitled to recognition in New…