The 2008 citizenship law of Vietnam requires that children adopted from Vietnam before July 1, 2009 must register with overseas Vietnamese diplomatic missions prior to July 1, 2014 to retain their Vietnamese citizenship (Art. 13.2 citizenship law of Vietnam). The law does not require children adopted from Vietnam after July 1, 2009 to register because they automatically retain their Vietnamese …
Category: Citizenship
AdopSource Letter to President Obama
PEAR supports AdopSource’s efforts to stop adoptees from being deported to their countries of origin. See their recent letter to President Obama here: http://adopsource.org/Shepherd_Community_Letter_%20final.pdf Ethics, Transparency, Support~ What All Adoptions Deserve.http://www.pear-now.org/ People for Ethical Adoption Reform www.pear-now.org
Article: Lack of accountability leaves Kairi in limbo
Reprinted with permission of the Author, Michelle Harrison: adoptive mother, friend of PEAR, and Director of Shishur Sevay. INSIDE STORY: Lack of accountability leaves Kairi in limbo ARTICLE | MAY 30, 2012 – 8:31PM | BY DR. MICHELLE HARRISON Kolkata – Kairi Abha Shepherd was adopted from India at three months of age and has no country to call home. …
Call to Action: Citizenship for all persons adopted abroad
One of the requirements of the Child Citizenship Act of 2000 (CCA 2000) was that the adoptee be under the age of 18 its effective date, February 27, 2001. Transnational adoptees 18 and older were not granted citizenship under its provisions. Korean Focus has created a petition to Congress to amend the Child Citizenship Act of 2000 to include all …
LEGISLATIVE ALERT: Haiti/Citzenship
According to a pres release from Senator Landrieu’s office, new legislation has been introduced to streamline the pathway to citizenship for children adopted and/or brought home on Humanitatiran Parole from Haiti. http://landrieu.senate.gov/mediacenter/pressreleases/05-26-2010-1.cfm The Bill is not yet published on the Library of COngress website, but PEAR will post links and pertinent text as soon as it is available. FOR IMMEDIATE …
UPDATE: Haiti – Next Steps to Citzenship for Children Brought to US Post-Earthquake
February 23, 2010:Information for Adoptive Parents of Paroled Haitian Orphans Obtaining Lawful Permanent Residence (LPR) Status and U.S. Citizenship Introduction: Under normal circumstances, a child immigrating to the United States from Haiti as the adopted orphan child of a U.S. citizen is adopted before leaving Haiti, and is then admitted to the United States with an immigrant visa for Lawful …