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Interim Decision #181a MATTER OF CRAN In Visa Petition Proceedings A-17106137 Decided by Board November 00, 1967 A valid adoption under Article 1073 of the Chinese Civil Code can occur even though the adoptive parent is not at least 20 years older than the adopted child: since such an adoption is only voidable and not automatically void. Bence, where petitioner and beneficiary have lived together since petitioner's adop- tion of beneficiary in China in 1947 (when the latter was 4 years of age) until the petitioner departed for the United States in 1966, the adoption is a valid subsisting…