If you don't at first succeed, try, try again. So I am writing immigration, two Senators and a Congressman hoping they will try to help international adoptive families. It kind of stinks that kids that come in on IR3 Visas automatically get Certificate of Citizenship (which they should) while kids that come to the United States on IR4 Visas have to go through a lot of unnecessary beauracratic tape to get that certificate. It's the fact that the families have to apply for it. That's totally understandable since the child that comes here is not legally adopted until they're in the U.S., but once we adopt them we should have to do no more than fill out the application, pay a small processing charge (ahem, not $430) and show the adoption decree finalizing the adoption. That should be it. No, each immigration office, deciding who should have to or not have to come in, in person, to receive that certificate that, by law, our children deserve. They should just each mail them to the children upon approval of the application. It's such a consistent inconsistency with USCIS.
I'm hoping someone in our government will attempt to help families out there. It won't benefit us, but I'm hoping it will benefit others.
If you're reading this and you too are an adoptive family or know one, write your D.C. elected officials and get someone to take this up. Tell them to look at change for the Child Citizenship Act and regulation of USCIS for Certificates of Citizenship for internationally adopted children.
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