LAU

Interim Decision #2558 MATTER OF LA_U In Visa Petition Proceedings A-21330675 Decided by Board October 29, 1976 (1) The United States citizen petitioner applied for preference classification for the beneficiary as his sister under section 203(a)(5) of the Immigration and Nationality Act which was denied by the District Director and petitioner appealed. (2) Petitioner claimed that beneficiary was adopted by his pirents in 1936. However, petitioner's mother stated that no adoption papers as required under the Civil Code of the Republic of China, Article 1079, were executed at the time…