US: It’s time to grant full citizenship to adoptees born outside of U.S. (Opinion) (May require subscription)
Enquirer – October 23, 2023
Since the end of World War II, the United States has welcomed over 500,000 individuals who were adopted from abroad as children and brought to the U.S. by American parents. But astonishingly, despite being raised by American parents with U.S citizenship, we weren’t automatically granted citizenship. My parents adopted me in the late 80s when international adoption procedures were wildly inconsistent and largely unsupervised. Luckily, my parents were assigned to someone who walked them through the citizenship labyrinth. But many weren’t so lucky. Agencies weren’t responsible for educating parents about the naturalization process. It wasn’t unheard of for parents to assume their children were automatically citizens − a reasonable assumption considering many European countries and Australia granted automatic citizenship upon their adoption finalization. Regrettably, the lack of regulatory oversight left adoptees vulnerable and unprotected.
https://www.cincinnati.com/story/opinion/contributors/2023/10/23/its-time-to-grant-full-citizenship-to-adoptees-born-abroad-opinion/71225511007/