speaking of children and citizenship

[minoanmiss]

Thousands were adopted to the US but not made citizens. Decades later, they risk being deported

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[lunabee34]

:(

[amaebi]

And it's infuriating.

Apparently a state can close the loophole, I guess through some combination of state law and arrangements with USCIS: when the judge finalized our adoption of the chun man he was granted citizenship, and a new birth certificate arrived for him.

[ckd]

She was eventually naturalized, after what she describes as a crushing process with immigration, including having to take a civics test.

A test which I doubt a certain presidential candidate could pass, "stable genius" or not.

[sovay]

Thousands were adopted to the US but not made citizens. Decades later, they risk being deported

Last night I saw a film—from 1949—that was very close to this issue.

[dhampyresa]

Well that's fucked up.

[lokifan]

Oh God :(