PATEL

Interim Decision #2801 MATTER OF PATEL In Visa Petition Proceedings A-23557515 Decided by Board June 18, 1980 (1) Notwithstanding the requirement of the Hindu Adoptions and Maintenance Act of 1956 that a Hindu male can only adopt with the consent of his wife and that a child's natural father must also have the consent of the mother, an adoption may be valid without the -written consent of the wife and the natural mother, since paragraph 16 of the Act provides that an adoption will be presumed to be in compliance with the Act if the adoption document is signal by both the person giving and the…