For more information, visit www.AdopteeRightsCampaign.org
The Adoptee Rights Campaign (ARC) has launched its 2017 Campaign for the Adoptee Citizenship Act, which intends to grant automatic citizenship to all intercountry adoptees. Since the 1940s, over 300,000 children have been adopted from abroad by U.S. citizen parents with the promise of a better life. The burden of securing citizenship for intercountry adoptees was placed on the adoptive parents, and there are now an estimated 35,000 adult adoptees who lack U.S. citizenship.* Without citizenship, adoptees have limited work and travel options, cannot access public benefits or qualify for home loans, and are at risk for deportation to countries where they have no known family, do not know the language or culture and have little chance of survival.
For more information, visit www.AdopteeRightsCampaign.org
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ALMA, the pioneer organization in fighting for the rights of adoptees everywhere, is the oldest, most comprehensive and successful registry of its kind, founded by adoptee, Florence Fisher in 1971. Alma’s extensive registry is augmented by search help from volunteer staffers with years of experience in helping
adopted persons and birth family members search and be in contact with each other. ALMA, Alma Society ALMA - The Adoptees' Liberty Movement Association (ALMA) almasociety.org anderson@almasociety.org https://www.facebook.com/groups/109344539097611 Searching for Birth Relatives. Resources on Child Welfare Information Gateway.
https://www.childwelfare.gov/adoption/search/searching.cfm International Soundex Reunion Registry - An international service to the world-wide community of those separated from family. http://www.isrr.org/ Land of Gazillion Adoptees Magazine. http://gazillionvoices.com/category/voices/#.VBXr1PldUwB PACT-Recommended Resources for Adopted People, including many essays by adopted individuals http://www.pactadopt.org/resources/adopted-people.html Resources from the Child Welfare Information Gateway – Connecting with other adopted people, educational assistance, late discovery adoption, lifelong impact of adoption, perspectives of transracial adopted people and others https://www.childwelfare.gov/adoption/adopt_people/ |
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