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Interim Decision #2147 MATTER OF NG In Visa Petition Proceedings A-20029181 Decided by Board April 28, 1972 The validity of the simple adoption of beneficiary under Chinese law and custom (Tsing Code) in Hong Kong in 1954 is not vitiated by the fact beneficiary is a female. The Tsing Code provided for two different kinds of adoptions: (1) a "ritual adoption", an adoption of a male to act in the ritual capacity of an heir to the ancestral cult associated with the agnatic lineage of the adopted father, and (2) a "simple adoption", an adoption of a male or female to stand in the relationship of…