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(s).
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: