Join us for an update and discussion about pending state-level legislation that could impact adult adopted people.
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Courts in 3,144 counties control the release and restriction of critical adoption records, often to the detriment of adopted people.
Equal Citizenship for Children Act Introduced in Congress
The bill would help intercountry adoptees who are without US citizenship by amending current immigration law, plus making it retroactive to those born after 1940.
Update: Conferees Announced for Bill with Intercountry Adoptee Citizenship Provisions
More than 100 conference committee members will soon begin negotiating a massive technology bill, a version of which could eliminate a loophole denying US citizenship to thousands of intercountry adoptees.
What to Know Now About the Adoptee Citizenship Act
What the latest Congressional developments mean for intercountry adoptees without US citizenship.
What to Know (and Do) About Massachusetts
An equal rights bill in Massachusetts, which removes date-based restrictions on the release of an adopted person’s own original birth certificate, is again set for hearing. Here’s what you need to know.