CHANG

Interim Decision #2294 MATTER OF CHANG In Visa Petition Proceedings A-20306974 Decided by Board June 12, 1974 Since beneficiary's alleged adoption in Burma by natives of China occurred subsequent to 1939, it was governed, not by Chinese customary law, but by Burmese Buddhist law, under which there are two forms of adoption: Kittima and Appatittha. Beneficiary's adoption, allegedly effected in 1950 without writing and without notifying the Burmese authorities, could not have been a Kittima adoption, which is similar to the concept of adoption in the United States. Assuming the adoption was an…