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Code · BILL · 113th Congress · H.R. 1525 (Introduced in House) — To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to comprehensively reform immigration law, and for other purposes. · Sec. 302

Sec. 302. Allow aunts and uncles or grandparents to adopt orphaned or abandoned children of the deceased relative

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Section 101(b)(1) (8 U.S.C. 1101(b)(1)) is amended— by striking or at the end of subparagraph
(E)and inserting a semicolon; by striking the period at the end of subparagraph
(F)and inserting a colon; by striking the period at the end of subparagraph
(G)and inserting ; and ; and by adding at the end the following: a child adopted in the United States or abroad or who is coming to the United States for adoption by a grandparent, aunt or uncle while under the age of eighteen years, who has suffered the death or disappearance of, abandonment or desertion by, or separation or loss from, both parents, or for whom the sole or surviving parent is incapable of providing proper care and has consented in writing to the adoption, if the Secretary of Homeland Security is satisfied that proper care will be furnished the child if admitted to the United States. No natural parent or prior adoptive parent of any such child shall thereafter, by virtue of such parentage, be accorded any right, privilege, or status under this Act. Nothing in this subsection shall be construed to require the child to be released to an orphanage as a prerequisite for eligibility. .
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