According to the National Education Association, and other organizations, prior to 2000 tens of thousands of children were adopted from international countries into the United States but were never granted U.S. citizenship. Many of these now adult adoptees came from South Korea from the 1950s through the 1980s. Their adoptive parents did not naturalize their citizenship either because the adoption agency did not tell them that they needed to or they purposely did not in order to use their adopted child as a slave, such as in the case of Adam Crasper's abusive childhood. 

As an adoptee myself and an advocate for adoptee rights this needs to change. The multibillion dollar, loosely regulated and completely uncredentialed adoption industry, that has also been rife with child kidnapping and human trafficking violations, has done nothing to secure U.S citizenship for adult adoptees born outside of the United States.  

Some of these adoptees, through no fault of their own, have been deported. According to the American Academy of Pediatrics suicide rates of White adoptees are four times higher than the non adopted population, and six times higher if LGBT or a person of color. Sadly, and unnecessarily, some Korean born adoptees have died by suicide  because of the severe discrimination they endure. 

Internationally born adoptees who are adults now cannot apply for citizenship themselves. We have at least twenty-six thousand people in our country who cannot legally work, vote, marry, apply for benefits, obtain numerous things at a bank, have health insurance,  or obtain a passport for international travel and attend college. 

We, the petitioners, demand that the United States Congress immediately enact  the US Adoptee Citizenship Act enabling all internationally born adoptees born prior to 2000 the ability to vote, work, marry, rent, obtain health insurance, open a bank account, and attend school just like any other American.