YIU

Interim Decision #2061 MATTER OF YIU In Visa Petition Proceedings A-19182846 Decided by Board November 19, 1970 Beneficiary, who was born in Hong Kong in 1940 (the daughter of a female servant who resided in petitioner's household), and whose care and cus- tody were vested in petitioner in Hong Kong upon the death of benefici- ary's mother in 1949, was not validly adopted by petitioner since the gov- erning Chinese law and custom permits adoption only for purposes of family succession and is limited to males; further, adoption of strangers is allowed only when a person has exhausted all his…