IRANI

Interim Decision #2468 MATTER OF IRANI In Visa Petition Proceedings A-21769965 Decided by Board February 4, 1976 (1) Prior to the Hindu Adoptions and Maintenance Act of India which became effective December 21, 1956, the rule of Hindu law was that adoption by a woman of a son to herself was invalid and conferred no legal right upon the person adopted, and that a woman could adopt a child to her husband if she obtained his express consent during his lifetime. The woman's power to adopt could not be greater than the husband had in his own lifetime. The adoption of a son by a male Hindu was…