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CA AJR39
Joint Resolution
Status
Passed
9/6/2018
Primary Sponsor
Steven Choi
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AI Summary
- Urges the President and Congress of the United States to enact legislation securing citizenship for internationally adopted children who are now adults
- Addresses a gap in the Child Citizenship Act of 2000, which did not apply to adopted children who were 18 or older when the law passed, leaving an estimated tens of thousands of adoptees born before February 27, 1982 undocumented and potentially subject to deportation
- Specifically calls for passage of the Adoptee Citizenship Act of 2018, which would grant automatic U.S. citizenship to adoptees born outside the United States who were adopted by U.S. citizen parents before age 18, were in legal U.S. custody as children, never acquired citizenship, and currently reside in the United States
- Notes that approximately 18,000 Korean American adoptees alone lack U.S. citizenship despite legal adoption, with additional adoptees from Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Guatemala, Russia, Vietnam, and other countries
- Directs the Chief Clerk of the Assembly to transmit resolution copies to the President and all California representatives and senators in Congress
Legislative Description
Citizenship: internationally adopted children who are now adults.
Last Action
Chaptered by Secretary of State - Res. Chapter 203, Statutes of 2018.
9/6/2018
Committee Referrals
Rules8/16/2018
Judiciary6/14/2018
Full Bill Text
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