BOURNE

Interim Decision #2618 MATTER OF BOURNE In Visa Petition Proceedings A-22149716 Decided by Board October 12, 1977 (1) In order to support the claimed "brother/sister" relationship under section 203(a)(5) of the Immigration and Nationality Act, the petitioner has to establish that both she and the beneficiary once qualified as "children" of a corrunon "parent" within the meaning of sections 101(b)(1) and (2) of the Act. " (2) Under the case law interpretation of section 101(b)(1)(B) of the Act, the legitimation of the beneficiary and petitioner by their natural father is not required in order…