Adoption

Adoption means the judicial or administrative act that establishes a permanent legal parent-child relationship between a minor and an adult who is not already the minor's legal parent and terminates the legal parent-child relationship between the adoptive child and any former parent.

Source

8 CFR § 204.301


Scoping language

The definitions in 22 CFR 96.2 apply to this subpart C. In addition, as used in this subpart C, the term:

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