SINGH

Interim Decision #2402 MATTER OF SINGH In Visa Petition Proceedings A-20312960 Decided by Board November 11, 1974 (1) The United States citizen petitioner applied for immediate relative status for the beneficiary as his.parent, wider section 201(b) of the Immigration and Nationality Act. The petitioner was born out of wedlock in 1944. The beneficiary did not marry peti- tioner's mother until 1971. Petition was denied because beneficiary was not a parent under section :.01(b)(2) of the Act since the petitioner had not been legitimated, prior to his eighteenth birthday, in accordance with…