CLARKE

Interim Decision #2935 MATTER OF CLARKE In Visa Petition Proceedings A-24313889 A-24313889' A-24553333 Decided by Board February 15, 1983 (1) In order to obtain a preference status for the beneficiaries as his sons and 'daughter under section 203(aX1) of the Immigration and Nationality Act, 8 U.S.C. 1153(a)(1), a petitioner must establish that the beneficiaries once qualified as his "children" within the meaning of section 101(bX1) of the Act, 8 U.S.C. 1101(b)(1). (2) Under the law of New Jersey; the father's. residence and domicile, legitimation of a child born out-of-wedlock requires the…