BOGHDADI

Interim Decision *1846 MAI lac or BOGIIDADI In Visa Petition Proceedings A-13191300 Decided by Board March 27,1968 Visa petition to accord beneficiary preference classification under section 203 (a ) (5) of the Inuaigration and Nationality Act, as amended, an the brother of the U.S. citizen petitioner, on the basis of his alleged adoption by petitioner's father at the time of the latter's marriage to beneficiary's mother in Egypt in 1942, is denied for lack of a valid adoption since religious law applied to personal status matters in Egypt and adoption Wan recognized neither under Egyptian…