GOORAHOO

Interim Decision #3216 MATTER OF GOORAHOO In Visa Petition Proceedings A 29879909 - Decided by Board February 9, 1994 (1) In order to obtain preference status for the beneficiary as his son pursuant to section 203(a)(2) of the Immigration and Nationality Act, 8 U.S.C. § 1153(a)(2) (1988), a petitioner must establish that the beneficiary qualifies or once qualified as his "child" within the meaning of section 101(b)(I) of the Act, 8 U.S.C. § 1101(b)(I) (1988). (2) When the country where a child is born eliminates all legal distinctions between illegitimate and legitimate children, all natural…