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This is just wrong. He entered the country legally. The Adoption Citizenship Act seems like the right way to handle this.

• rdtsc 10y ago
  It isn't, not without an amendment it seems. These people were too old to qualify. The reason the law was that way is to prevent loopholes like someone adopting a 30 year old person and then using this law to naturalize them.
  • erkose 10y ago
    If he was entitled to citizenship at the time of his adoption, and his adoptive parents failed to file the paperwork, then he should be entitled to citizenship regardless of his age. There are certainly many ways to abuse the system, but I prefer to err on the side of good faith.
    • rdtsc 10y ago
      > but I prefer to err on the side of good faith. Usually though good faith and bureaucracy don't mix. It is dangerous to have faith in bureaucracy. In a way that is what the parents did, how the girl at the end said her parent just believed common sense would prevail and even if there is a missing paper here and there, someone sitting across the desk will understand and fix the error eventually.