HR250 Summary

• Urges the President and U.S. Congress to enact legislation granting citizenship to internationally adopted adult individuals who were not covered by the Child Citizenship Act of 2000.

• Identifies tens of thousands of adult legal adoptees born before February 27, 1982, who remain undocumented and face potential deportation despite being raised in the United States by citizen parents.

• Notes that adoptees from countries including Korea, China, Russia, India, Guatemala, Mexico, and others lack citizenship due to parents' failure to complete naturalization processes or visa entry complications.

• References the Adoptee Citizenship Act of 2015 and 2018, which sought to amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to grant automatic citizenship to all qualifying children adopted by U.S. citizen parents regardless of age, but neither advanced from committee.

• Proposes that qualifying adoptees automatically become U.S. citizens upon lawful admission to the United States, subject to criminal background checks, with exclusions for those convicted of offenses involving physical force against others.