Adoptee Rights Law Center
@adopteerights.bsky.social
Lawyer, law firm, adopted person. Lover of toast. Based in Minnesota, born and adopted in the District of Columbia | adopteerightslaw.com
Especially today, props to intercountry adopted people who speak out about being denied US citizenship despite being adopted by US citizen parents decades ago 🥚 www.bbc.com/news/article...
The American adoptees who fear deportation to a country they can't remember - BBC News
Thousands of US adoptees do not have citizenship despite being brought to the country as babies decades ago. Now many fear deportation.
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October 31, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Especially today, props to intercountry adopted people who speak out about being denied US citizenship despite being adopted by US citizen parents decades ago 🥚 www.bbc.com/news/article...
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🥚 for the adoptee feed - this is my second novel, and my first with an adoptee protagonist! 🥰 🙂
October 6, 2025 at 10:04 PM
🥚 for the adoptee feed - this is my second novel, and my first with an adoptee protagonist! 🥰 🙂
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...
The Protect Adoptees and American Families Act | Adoptees United
The fight for US citizenship for all intercountry adoptees continues, with introduction of the Protect Adoptees and American Families Act
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September 21, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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...
Trump Justice Dept. Closed Investigation Into Tom Homan for Accepting Bag of Cash
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September 21, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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.
September 16, 2025 at 12:27 AM
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...
August 17, 2025 at 2:04 AM
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...
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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
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
August 8, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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
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...
The Pain of Perfectionism
It’s the fault people humblebrag about in job interviews, but psychologists are discovering more and more about the real harm it causes.
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August 12, 2025 at 2:08 AM
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...
Inside Trump’s New Tactic to Separate Immigrant Families
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August 5, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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...
USCIS: All Redacted and Withheld Pages
A Flourish data visualization by Gregory D Luce
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August 1, 2025 at 11:58 AM
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
Donate to Reuniting with My Family After 15 Years — Help Me Give Back, organized by Anna Fisher
Hi, my name is Anna. I was adopted from China to the United St… Anna Fisher needs your support for Reuniting with My Family After 15 Years — Help Me Give Back
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July 31, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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...
A Guide to Getting Your OBC in Georgia | Adoptee Rights Law
What Georgia's new equal rights law does, plus how adult adopted people can apply for copies of their own original birth records.
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July 7, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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
June 4, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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...
Dear Parents of Intercountry Adoptees | ARLC
Two things parents of adult intercountry adopted people should do today to help secure documents related to US citizenship and immigration benefits.
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May 23, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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 Chinese Adoptees Who Were Stolen
As thousands of Chinese families take DNA tests, the results are upending what adoptees abroad thought they knew about their origins.
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May 23, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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... 🥚
USCIS Is Withholding My Clients' Immigration Records at an Alarming Rate
New USCIS practices are making the job of securing and proving US citizenship for my clients maddeningly slow, difficult, and absurd.
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May 14, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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.
April 21, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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. 🥚
April 19, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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.
April 10, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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. 🥚
April 10, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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/
Latest from the Citizenship Clinic | Adoptees United Inc.
What's happening with the AU Citizenship Clinic as of April 2025.
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April 10, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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
April 2, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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-...
National Action: NO on the SAVE Act
Contact your U.S. representative today and request a NO VOTE on the SAVE Act, which will disenfranchise millions of US voters.
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April 1, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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. 🥚
March 26, 2025 at 11:45 AM
I kid you not. 🥚
Coming up on Wednesday, hope to see people there.🥚 adopteesunited.org/state-level-...
State Level Legislation: An Update | Adoptees United Inc.
Join us for an update and discussion about pending state-level legislation in 2025 that could impact adopted people.
adopteesunited.org
March 23, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Coming up on Wednesday, hope to see people there.🥚 adopteesunited.org/state-level-...