MESIAS

Interim Decision #2919 MATTER OF MESIAS In Visa Petition Proceedings A-24704'734 Decided by Board August 26, 1982 (1) Under the Civil Code of Haiti, as amended by the 1959 Presidential Decree, children born out of wedlock prior to January 27, 1959, but acknowledged by their natural father after that date have the same rights and obligations as legitimate children. (2) Where the beneficiary, a native and citizen - of Haiti, was born out of wedlock in 1956, and acknowledged by the natural father in 1970, prior to his eighteenth birthday, he is doomed a legitimated child for immigration purposes…