GONZALEZ

Interim Decision #2754 MATTER OF GONZALEZ In Visa Petition Proceedings A-12727931 Decided by Board January 17, 1980 (1) In order to support a claimed sibling relationship under section 203(a)(5) of the Immigration and Nationality Act, S U.S.C. 1153(a)(5), the petitioner must establish that she and the beneficiary once qualified as the "children" of a common "parent" as those terms are defined by section 101(b)(1) and (2) of the Act, S U.S.C. 1101(b)(1) and (2). (2) The mere fact of a marriage that technically creates a steprelationship is insufficient to establish the existence of that…