Selected articles about intercountry adoptees and the difficulty of securing or proving US citizenship, despite being adopted as children by US citizen parents.
We Can Do This (Because We Must)
What’s to do after Congress failed yet again to fix US citizenship for intercountry adoptees? Our own work.
Getting Your Own Immigration Records
A resource for intercountry adoptees to obtain their own immigration records through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to the US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS).
Should I Wait for Congress? Or Should I Naturalize Now?
Two key questions I often discuss with intercountry adoptee clients who do not have US citizenship.
Read More . . . Should I Wait for Congress? Or Should I Naturalize Now?
Latest on Citizenship for Intercountry Adoptees
A stripped down version of the Adoptee Citizenship Act has passed the House. But it’s not the actual ACA. It’s now an amendment to a much larger and unrelated bill.
Read More . . . Latest on Citizenship for Intercountry Adoptees
Immigration Provisions in the Build Back Better Bill
The Build Back Better bill contains provisions that could help millions of undocumented people, including some intercountry adoptees, though its impact is limited.
Read More . . . Immigration Provisions in the Build Back Better Bill
My Name is Monica Ross
I need your support to get the Adoptee Citizenship Act enacted. Support me and the thousands of other intercountry adoptees who are in the same situation.