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The legislation, first introduced in 2015 and reintroduced in Congress in 2018, [2] 2019, [3] 2021, [4] [5] and 2024, [6] amends the Child Citizenship Act of 2000 to close a loophole that has for decades prevented adopted people from acquiring US citizenship through their adoptive parents.
With passage of the Child Citizenship Act of 2000, effective for children under eighteen or born on or after February 27, 2001, foreign adoptees of U.S. nationals, brought to the United States by a legal custodial parent in their minority, automatically derive nationality upon legal entry to the country and finalization of the adoption process.
As children adopted in the Baby Scoop Era began to reach adulthood in the 1970s, interest in adoptee rights increased significantly. The Adoptees' Liberty Movement Association (ALMA) was founded by Florence Anna Fisher in 1971; within a few years, it had 50,000 members and 50 chapters. [ 4 ]
The 14th Amendment was adopted in 1868, after the close of the Civil War. ... In 1898, the US Supreme Court affirmed that birthright citizenship applies to the children of immigrants in the case ...
What is the connection between birthright citizenship and immigration? In 1898, 30 years after the 14th Amendment was adopted, the Supreme Court reached a defining decision in a case known as the ...
A conservative-backed push for stricter proof-of-citizenship requirements for voting could complicate efforts to avert a government shutdown next month. Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have ...
Section 322 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (INA), added in 1994, enabled children of a United States citizen who did not become citizens at birth, to use the physical presence period in the United States of a grandparent who was a citizen to qualify for United States citizenship. [68] Under the Child Citizenship Act of 2000 ...
Trump advisers and some conservative legal scholars have previously argued that the idea of giving birthright citizenship to children of illegal immigrants is based on a misreading of the amendment.