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Florence Anna Fisher
Florence Anna Fisher was an American adoptee and author of The Search for Anna Fisher, an autobiography that told of her experiences as an adopted person who set out to search for her biological roots and pre-adoption identity. She is considered one of the founders of the modern adoptee rights movement in the United States, having founded the Adoptees Liberty Movement Association in 1971.

She died in Brooklyn, New York on October 1, 2023. Other sources:

The Birth of Contemporary Adoption Autobiography: Florence Fisher and Betty Jean Lifton - 10.1080/08989575.2003.10815306

Current information on Wikipedia:

Efforts to overturn the act [ edit]
Adoptee organizations are in the process of gathering support from legislators to pass Adoptee Citizenship Act of 2021, which would allow all adoptees to be automatically granted U.S. citizenship regardless of age. Adopted children from overseas who turned 18 years or older before 2000 may be not aware they need apply for citizenship due to misinformation from adoption agencies or because of negligent or abusive parents, which can cause those who are adopted to be at risk for deportation.

One of the most well known cases was the deportation of Adam Crapser, who was adopted from South Korea. He endured abuse and also abandonment by two sets of adoptive parents, which none of them filed for his citizenship. Crapser, who had arrests on his record, including domestic violence and an arrest for a sex crime against a minor, was deported in 2016.

Working on an independent entry

Adoptee Citizenship Act
The Adoptee Citizenship Act is a series of bills in the United States Congress dating back to 2015 that attempt to remedy the lack of US citizenship for thousands of intercountry adoptees who were adopted by US citizens as children.The legislation, first introduced in 2015 and reintroduced in Congress in 2017, 2019, and 2021, and 2024, amends the Child Citizenship Act of 2000 to close a loophole that has for decades prevented older adopted people from acquiring US citizenship through their adoptive parents.

Potential Sources

Waiting in No Man's Land (MPR Code Switch): https://www.npr.org/transcripts/1107966562

'You love this country, and it’s taken from you’: Adoption doesn’t guarantee US citizenship https://www.usatoday.com/in-depth/news/investigations/2020/12/16/international-adoption-does-not-guarantee-adoptees-us-citizenship/6310358002/

Fight Continues to Close Citizenship Loophole for Adoptees https://imprintnews.org/adoption/fight-continues-close-citizenship-loophole-adoptees-passage-adoptee-citizenship-act-remains-uncertain/23258