California Adoption of Adult Person

[McSteele]

What is the name of your state? California

Is it possible to adopt a 25-year-old Mexican person? Would such an adoption allow that Mexican person to obtain a green card?

 

[nextwife]

Yes, it is possible

No, adoption of an adult does not make a difference in obtaining a visa.

http://uscis.gov/graphics/howdoi/fororphan.htm


Who is Considered an Orphan?
Under U.S. immigration law, a foreign-born child is an orphan if he or she does not have any parents because of the death or disappearance of, abandonment or desertion by, or separation or loss from, both parents. A foreign-born child is also an orphan if his or her sole or surviving parent is incapable of providing care of the child and has, in writing, irrevocably released the child for emigration and adoption. For such a child to gain immigration benefits, an orphan petition must be filed before his or her 16th birthday. An orphan petition may be filed before the child's 18th birthday, if the child is a natural sibling of an orphan or adopted child, and is adopted with or after that child, by the same adoptive parents