China, People's Republic of: Marriage Law: Article 15; #2682 Colombia: Decree 1269 of July 27, 1970; #2710 Civil Code, Article 17, Law 1306-bis On Civil Code, 1958, Article III, sec. 1; Law 985 of August 31, 1945; #2641 Codigo Civil [C. Civ. II] [La Precise Egypt: India: Adoptions & Maintenance Act of 1956: sec. 5; #2620 sec. 8; #2620 sec. 9; #2620 Israel: Criminal Act of 1936: sec. 159; #2595 sec. 168; #2595 Jamaica: Legitimation Act of Jamaica, II Jamaica Status of Children Act of Jamaica, 1976; Korea: Civil Code of 1960: Art. 781; # 2606 Art. 782; # 2606 Art. 909; #2606 Art. 974; #2606 "Consular Law" (Egyptian Official Art. 984; #2606 Gazette, No. 78, August 13, 1925); Art. 985; #2606 "Ordinance for the Ma'zuns" (Egyptian El Salvador: Civil Code: Art. 217; # 2586 Art. 225(2); #2586 Art. 279; #2586 Ghana: The courts Act, 1971, Act 372, sec. 50(3) (ii); #2534 Great Britain: Dangerous Drugs Act of 1965 (super- seded); #2561, 2613 Misuse of Drugs Act 1971: sec. 28(3) (b); #2613 Grenada: Grenada Laws, C.161 amended; #2621 Haiti: Art. 1014; # 2606 Constitution: Art. 121; #2580 Art. 314; #2629 State of Chihuahua: Civil Code: Art. 367; #2705 State of Coahuila: Civil Code: Art. 272, par. 3; #2580 Civil Code: Art. 400; #2630 Art. 401; # 2630 State of Zacatecas: Civil Code: Art. 65; #2580 Presidential Decree of 1966; adoption; Presidential Decree of April 4, 1974; #2686 Honduras: Constitution of 1957; #2687 Constitution of 1965; #2687 Art. 228; #2580 Nigeria: L.O.C. memo-Divorce in the East- Central State of Nigeria between persons married under Customary 121 Congressional Record H4039 et. seq. Foreign Affairs Manual, Vol. 9, Appendix House Report 91-851; #2602 H.R. Rep. No. 1365, 82nd Cong., 2nd Law of Federal Courts, C.A. Wright, I. & N. Operations Instructions O.I. 212.5(c); #2614 O.I. 242.1(a) (28), as amended April 27, O.I. 242.10(a) (6) (i); #2625 S. Rep. No. 1137, 82nd Cong., 2nd Sess., Index to Precedent Decisions Interim Decisions 2526 to 2710 This index covers Interim Decisions 2526 through 2710 distributed in loose-leaf form July 20, 1979 A Abandonment of Permanent Residence; see Resi- Adjustment of Status: alien within provisions of sec. 241(a)(15); #2640 certification (labor) does not operate as employment discretionary grant; #2628 eligibility under sec. 212(a)(14); #2651 fiance, not "automatic" upon marriage; must show grounds of deportability; effect on; #2640 unauthorized employment, sec. 245(c)(2), after sec. 1, Act of November 2, 1966 statute of limitations for rescission runs from date sec. 245, 1952 Act, as amended: a preconceived intent at time of entry to remain adjustment of status not precluded by conviction of alien coming to engage in commercial or agricultural Adjustment of Status-Continued alien within provisions of sec. 212(a)(23); eligible; alien within provisions of sec. 245(c), effect of hav- application filed simultaneously with visa petition in certification (labor): exemption from; #2708 exemption from as investor; question of; #2581, necessity of finding of fraud or willfulness to invali- necessity of; where alien who is supported by chil- no longer in employment upon basis of which issued; qualification of nonpreference alien for Schedule A discretionary denial; #2530, 2551, 2556, 2607 eligibility through "involuntary" communist party Certification (labor)—Continued exchange visitor; #2562 exclusion hearing, not available; #2598 filing of application; effect upon existing deportabil- labor certification requirement; request for exemp- nunc pro tunc permission to work; question of Ser- public charge; aliens likely to become; ineligible, notwithstanding they are applying as refugee question of respondent's eligibility for 245 adjust- Special Inquiry Officer lacks authority to consider visa availability; #2697 notice of Proposed Rulemaking requirement; re- Admission: application for, abandonment or withdrawal; see Ap- when an admission occurs; #2614 Adopted Child: see Child Adopted Adoption: Burma; #2553 China; evidentiary standards; #2558 China (Taiwan); adoptive parties blood relatives; effect on relationship to natural parents, thereby per- Haiti: #2686 jurisdiction of state court where child resides outside Hawaii; #2584 India (Hindu Law); #2620 Korea: #2577 Mexico requirements under Civil code of Tamaulipas; State of Chihuahua; #2705 power of attorney, by means of; #2620 procedure; Coahuila, Mexico; #2580 validity, governed by place of adoption; #2630 exclusion proceedings: #2659 Alien of Distinguished Merit and Ability: reinstatement of lapsed "H" status not within jurisdic- Alien Registration: duty of alien crewman to exhibit evidence of (I-95) Proof: admissions by attorney; #2547 American Indians Born in Canada: role of; #2704 Annulment (see also Marriage): California; #2549 "relation back" doctrine; #2549 frivolous; #2592 grant of voluntary departure; effect of appeal on; summary dismissal; #2592 transcript, no right to from a bond redetermination; #2599 Application for Admission to United States (see also abandoned or withdrawn, when deemed; #2614 desertion from; ground of exclusion; #2680 legality does not affect deportability based on evi- legality; question of; #2527, 2547, 2582, 2596, 2647 Asylum, Political: claim of, in deportation proceedings; jurisdiction, claim of, lacking in substance; question of; #2592 B Birth Certificate (as evidence of U.S. citizenship): Board of Immigration Appeals: contrary ruling of district court where appeal pending. contrary ruling of a lower Federal court; effect on abandonment of lawful permanent resident status in Order to Show Cause, no authority to review Dis- motions to reopen; after Board remands record; #2670 voluntary departure date; #2572 Breach for failure to surrender: Breach for failure to surrender-Continued adequacy of notice to obligor to surrender alien; breach occurs when obligor fails to produce alien service of notice to surrender alien; adequacy of violation of conditions of bond is ground for breach; Bond, Release Under (sec. 242, 1952 Act): denial of, authority of immigration judge to increase China; adoptive parties blood relatives; #2649 India (Hindu Law); #2620 jurisdiction of state court where child resides out- brought into family at earlier age; and reared, legal custody requirements, sec, 101(b)(1)(E), 1952 Mexico (Chihuahua); #2705 Tonga; customary adoptions in; #2698 definition, sec. 101(b)(1) and (2) of Act; necessity that failure to complete adoption after entry into the Illegitimate: legal differences from legitimate children abolished Mexico; #2629 status sought by virture of relationship to natural Legitimate: all children treated as in Honduras; #2687 (S.D.N.Y. 1975), aff'd 563 F.2d 543, (2 Cir. 1977) California; #2636 Dominican Republic; #2641 Ecuador; #2545 Honduras, all natural children accorded equal rights and duties; #2687 Jamaica; #2643 Korea (Family Register); #2606 legal custody requirement; #2636 Michigan; retroactivity provision; #2603 over 18 at time of legitimation; #2586, 2600, 2603, Panama; birth before March 2, 1946: #2683 Philippine Islands; natural parents must marry each Virgin Islands; retroacitivity provision; #2600 "proxy" adoption; effect; #2577 Andrade Rationale; born out of wedlock, in relation beneficiary under 18 years of age when relationship Connecticut marriage creating relationship not rec- Citizenship: Burden of Proof: deportation proceedings: admission of birth abroad; visa petition proceedings; #2681 delayed birth certificate, as proof of; #2681 Act designated expatriation by statute; #2593 dual national; #2593 legitimation of illegitimate child who had required Oath of Allegiance to foreign state; #2593 voluntariness, sec. 349(c), 1952 Act; #2650 abandonment of domicile in U.S.; question of; #2579 employment, part-time; loss of status; #2652 aliens; no "right" to protection of U.S. Constitution; constitutional rights of aliens who have not made en- Fifth Amendment (Due Process); #2587 |