The US Senate has introduced the bipartisan Protect Adoptees and American Families Act, formerly known as the Adoptee Citizenship Act. Let's get this enacted so that thousands of intercountry adoptees finally secure US citizenship. 🥚 adopteesunited.org/congress-int...

Sure, but what happened to the bag of $50,000 in CASH? www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/u...

Intercountry adoptee never possessed her original certificate of naturalization and has lost her state ID. Your job? Figure out how to get just *one* of them now. One. Good luck.

USCIS has updated its policy guidance on what constitutes "Good Moral Character" (GMC), what a foreign national must demonstrate to become a US citizen. The new "holistic" approach is incredibly broad. It will no doubt be challenged. It's here: uscis.gov/sites/defaul...

Adoptees are getting caught in immigration troubles they never thought they’d be in. Many didn’t even know they could be targets. The full conversation with Greg Luce from @adopteerights.bsky.social is out now! Wherever you get your podcasts. Just search Make It Make Sense with Grant Hermes

Fascinating article that, you guessed it, has a moment with an adopted person. And how “mattering” can be a counterpoint to “perfectionism” www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Inside Trump’s New Tactic to Separate Immigrant Families www.nytimes.com/2025/08/05/u...

I've been tracking redactions and withholding of critical documents from my client's "A Files," which are released as part of a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request. It's pretty bad. 🥚 public.flourish.studio/visualisatio...

Hiya, 🥚 peeps. Can we help this intercountry adoptee (and a client) return to China to visit her long-time foster family and her twin sister, from whom she was separated at age 9? It's a really good cause: gofund.me/82625fe8

I put together some Q&As about Georgia's new law, plus added a video walkthrough of the online application process. Here ya go. 🥚 adopteerightslaw.com/georgia-equa...

Do your fellow adoptee authors and researchers (and readers!) a favor. Request your local library to add the author's books to the library's collection. It makes a difference. 🥚 cc: @thesusanito.bsky.social

USCIS is now removing and redacting most documents from intercountry adoptees’ immigration files. Here are 2 concrete things adoptive parents can do to help, at least for now 🥚 adopteerightslaw.com/parents-inte...

The Chinese Adoptees Who Were Stolen www.newyorker.com/news/america...

The absurdity of USCIS withholding my clients' own immigration records, which include adoption decrees, birth records, and other documents that are necessary to determine and prove immigration status. adopteerightslaw.com/uscis-withho... 🥚

I just received another FOIA response from USCIS and they removed the names of every person mentioned in 69 pages of records. EVERY PERSON, except one: my client, whose own name was not redacted. Her adoptive parents' names were removed from all records, including the decree. Absurd.

For the first time EVER, USCIS has redacted the names of ADOPTIVE PARENTS in my client's immigration file (not to mention birthparent names, sibling names, and even the names of judges and officials involved in the adoption). Unbelievable. We're going to appeal. 🥚

Dear state legislators: please change your laws so that adoptees can easily request a certified copy of their own state-issued adoption decree. It's insane that it takes a formal court petition to get a critical document--particularly to secure US citizenship. I'm tired of it.

Any adoptees out there doing immigration work? Thinking about forming a group of us just to keep our morale up and to talk shop. 🥚

The @adopteesunited.bsky.social Citizenship Clinic picked up 39 new cases in the past month. We're incredibly busy, and for good reason. Here's what's happening. 🥚https://adopteesunited.org/april-2025-latest-citizenship-clinic/

Georgia will soon be the 16th state to affirm or restore the right of all adult adopted people to obtain their own original birth records. SB100 passed the House earlier today after easily passing the Senate before. It heads to the governor. Great work by the Georgia Alliance for Adoptee Rights

This bill must not pass. Please contact your US congressional rep. Among millions of people, it also disproportinately impacts adoptees, especially intercountry adoptees adopteerightslaw.com/action/call-...

I kid you not. 🥚

Coming up on Wednesday, hope to see people there.🥚 adopteesunited.org/state-level-...

This week the Trump administration announced eliminating critical USCIS oversight offices: the Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties (CRCL), the Office of the Immigration Detention Ombudsman and the Office of the Citizenship and Immigration Services Ombudsman www.npr.org/2025/03/21/n...

Like we predicted, infants abandoned in Indiana baby boxes are placed for adoption . . . by the fire department.

What we've been up to: 118 requests for service, 88 active cases, 66 FOIAs, 23 countries, 33 states. All to prove or secure US citizenship for intercountry adopted people. It's the @adopteesunited.bsky.social Citizenship Clinic adopteesunited.org/latest-citiz...

Today in court I successfully got an order to put an adoptee client’s biological father on the original birth record. The client now qualifies for German citizenship as a descendant of Jews persecuted and murdered by the Nazis. 🥚

UPDATE: 🥚 Mutual Aid Fund request is nearly complete for a ICA client who has a naturalization interview in mid-March in Los Angeles. His sister has paid for my hotel stay and we need to raise $185 to close the final gap. Deets/donations: adopteerightslaw.com/contact/mutu... THANK YOU!

This will definitely impact intercountry adoptees who do not have readily available proof of US citizenship. It's part of what we are trying to correct through the @adopteesunited.bsky.social Citizenship Clinic and we are in talks with some states about this specific issue

We're halfway toward the goal. Funds needed so I can be at my client's naturalization interview in Los Angeles. My services are free, the travel not so much, and my client is homeless and obviously deserves to secure citizenship. Info: adopteerightslaw.com/intercountry...

I just got notice for a naturalization interview for a client in LA in March. My client, who is homeless, cannot pay my travel costs. I'll be at the interview no matter what, but it would be 🎉 to raise the travel funds to support him and this work. Info: adopteerightslaw.com/intercountry... 🥚

Today I talk to 1) an intercountry adoptee who is very likely going to be deported; 2) an ICA who is subject to removal/deportation; and 3) an ICA whose presence in the US depends on continuing Temporary Protected Status (TPS), which Trump plans to cancel. It's not a good day.

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Adoptees United will be holding an open forum to talk about and answer questions concerning immigration and US citizenship for transnational adoptees on February 12. I'll answer questions and talk about what I'm seeing so far. More info/registration:: adopteesunited.org/open-forum-i...

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The Trump administration has halted all legal assistance programs for immigration proceedings, leaving immigrants without counsel. It’s nuts acaciajustice.org/acacia-remai...

The work for adoptee rights and equality in Georgia continues imprintnews.org/top-stories/...

The cruelty and chaos of this administration is beyond measure. www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...

North Dakota has a bill. It's a pretty good one. More current state legislation here: adopteesunited.org/legislation/...

I'm part of several working groups in Minnesota figuring out how to get "personal belongings" in state and agency files to the persons they were intended to go (e.g., photos, baptismal certificates, letters, notes, objects, etc.). Here's a story about it: www.mprnews.org/story/2024/0...

Updated maps and bills from Adoptees United for state-based legislation that impacts adopted people. New (or returning) bills now filed in Maryland, Nebraska, New York, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia 🥚https://adopteesunited.org/legislation/state/

Two naturalization ceremonies today for intercountry adoptees. One in LA, one in Atlanta. I get to attend the one in Atlanta, which was approved this morning at the interview. Winning! 🥚

I got back from a client's naturalization interview in Los Angeles with this already in the USCIS account. :) YAY! One more citizen (who also should have been a citizen more than five decades ago).

Headed to LA today for a client’s naturalization interview. They’ve been through the USCIS wringer but it’s looking good for citizenship.

I'm partnering with @adopteesunited.bsky.social and @michiganadoptees.bsky.social next week to answer important questions about US citizenship and immigration issues for intercountry adoptees. December 3 at 6pm Central. adopteerightslaw.com/us-citizensh...

Naturalization interview this morning in Minneapolis, for a intercountry adoptee who learned last year he was not a US citizen, at age 57. This is the first interview I've had in Minneapolis, where I live. Normally I'm flying all over the country (LA soon, Atlanta after that, then Denver, etc.).

Hey, guess what? We did i! We raised $505 to pay a client's filing fee for a Replacement Certificate of Citizenship. THANK YOU to everyone who pitched in. You are the best.

I am actually tracking which contributions come from BlueSky and which ones from Twitter. I think #adopteesky can win.

Hey, folks, can we figure out a way to get an immigration fee paid for one of my clients, whose AParents are not relinquishing her Certificate of Citizenship (not uncommon) Details here: adopteerightslaw.com/help-filing-...