LEVY

Interim Decision #2830 MATTER OF LEVY In Visa Petition Proceedings A-23353467 Decided by Board October 8, 1980 (1) When the country where the beneficiary was born and resides eliminates all legal distinctions between legitimate and illegitimate children, all natural children are deemed to be the legitimate offspring of their natural father for visa petition purposes from the time that country's laws are changed. (2) Where a petitioner submitted evidence that a Haitian Presidential decree of January 27, 1959, purported to abolish all legal distinctions between children based on the marital…