MOZEB

Interim Decision #2422 MATTER OF MOZEB, et al. In Exclusion Proceedings A-20104497 A-20097838-9 A-20105846--7 Decided by Board August RO, 1975 ' (1) Since the law applicable in the Yemen Arab Republic is Islamic law which does not recognize the practice of adoption, relationships through claimed adoptions in Yemen cannot be established for immigration purposes (Matter of Ashree, Ahmed and Ahmed,

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reaffirmed). The informal relationship termed "adoption" in the Yemen Arab Republic is merely in the nature of a charitable act to needy children and does not c-eate a legal status…