Korean adoptee Spencer Stevens graciously created this easy-to-follow flowchart to help foreign-born adoptees determine whether or not they have United States citizenship. Thank you, Spencer! (Also, shout out to the non-profit organization he works with: Connect-a-Kid)
If you’ve changed your name (marriage, return to Korean name, etc), then it’s recommended to file a N-565 for a replacement with the new information at your earliest convenience. There are fees associated with these forms and if paying for any of them creates a financial hardship, see if you apply to the requirements for the I-912 form to get the fee waived.
I’ve been in this country since I was 3 months old. The thought of anyone questioning the citizenship of adoptees had never crossed my mind until this administration. But all bets are off when the President’s closest advisor (white supremacist Steve Bannon) says things like, “We’re going to war in the South China Sea … no doubt.”
I think I’ve taken my citizenship for granted, because I don’t remember anything about life before being American. And even though it gives me a sense of comfort to know that my parents did take the proper steps to ensure that I was naturalized, the terrorizing rhetoric against other Asian countries right now is leaving me feel vulnerable anyway. All I keep thinking about with the #MuslimBan and talks of a registry is Japanese American Internment camps– and CITIZENS being stripped of their property, jobs, and lives as they knew it. Trump surrogates are on record citing Japanese internment camps from WWII as “precedent” for the Muslim registry.
Yellow Peril is back in full-force, and I can’t help but feel a sense of doom. We have to keep our guard up for the next 4+ years, and do everything in our power to fight discriminatory policies — even if it doesn’t directly affect us. Everything is a precedent. This is only the beginning.
[UPDATE]: U.S. Senators Roy Blunt (Mo.), Mazie K. Hirono (Hawaii), Susan Collins (Maine), and Amy Klobuchar (Minn.) this past May introduced the Adoptee Citizenship Act of 2019. The bipartisan bill would close a loophole in the Child Citizenship Act of 2000 (CCA), which has prevented internationally-adopted children, who are now adults, from receiving U.S. citizenship despite being raised by American parents. Click here to learn more.
Please enact Bring all These are not adults who were adopted as adults to circumvent the system of immigration,” she said. They are adults who were adopted as children by U.S. citizens. They came into this country legally, and two governments were involved in the exchange.
“It’s an injustice that’s just never been corrected,”
Should be for All Legal Adoptees such as it’s now
Please think, it’s 2023 and still lingering, I haven’t seen my US baby since she was 2 years old or myHusband and 4 other Children, they miss their Mom, and I’m stuck in another country.. waiting for Bill to enact, no one cares, and just keeps getting ignored. This is happening to American families. Help, my daughter is now 16 so unfair, I went into country legally and now, far away.. alone.. I have Grandchildren I haven’t even met 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
. These are not adults who were adopted as adults to circumvent the system of immigration,” she said. They are adults who were adopted as children by U.S. citizens. They came into this country legally, and two governments were involved in the exchange.
“It’s an injustice that’s just never been corrected,”
Should be for All Adoptees such as it’s now
Please Help us Legal Afoptees, it’s 2023 and still lingering, I haven’t seen my US baby since she was 2 years old or my Husband and 4 other Children, they miss their Mom, and I’m stuck in another country.. waiting for Bill to enact, no one cares, and just keeps getting ignored. “This is happening to American families.Help!!!!! my daughter is now 16 so unfair, I went into country legally and now, far away.. alone.. I have Grandchildren I haven’t even met 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭 Now ….
These are not adults who were adopted as adults to circumvent the system of immigration,” she said. They are adults who were adopted as children by U.S. citizens. They came into this country legally, and two governments were involved in the exchange.
“It’s an injustice that’s just never been corrected,”
Should be for All Adoptees such as it’s now