SNAFU Immigration story - US adoption of Korean teen

[WOT?*]

www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/court-korean-born-girl-must-leave-us-because-she-was-adopted-by-her-kansas-uncle-a-year-too-late/ar-BBNIrPa?ocid=spartandhp

Hyebin Schreiber was born in South Korea and came to the US when she was 15. She was adopted by her aunt and uncle when she was 17. The adoption would be valid had she been born in the US but because she was born overseas, they did the paperwork one year too late. The birth certificate issued by the state isn't worth the paper it's printed on according to federal immigration laws, although it meets all state laws. A federal court judge in Kansas ruled that she is ineligible for citizenship and needs to return to Korea upon graduation from college. She is currently a senior at Kansas University, majoring in bio-chemistry.

Her uncle, btw, delayed the adoption on the advice of counsel and because he was stationed overseas in Afghanistan for two years, working as an intelligence officer; he decided to wait until after he returned home from duty to start the process. A retired Lt. Colonel in the US Army, with 27 years of service, he met his wife when he was stationed in Korea in 1995. If their daughter cannot stay in the US, they will be returning to Korea. The only route for her to be able to stay is if she can find employment and get sponsored for a work-visa.

So we're losing a high-ranking intelligence officer with almost 30 years military service, who's served for the majority of his adult life, because adoption laws. And we're losing someone who should have been an American citizen (but for an adoptive parent serving overseas), an obviously very intelligent young lady training in a STEM field.

[mrsukyankee]

I'm not a huge fan of either of my countries' immigration services right now. They are fucking things up for people who are good for the countries they live in. This is just one more example. Argh!

[secretlyevil]

I really have nothing productive to say about this situation. What this country is doing is criminal.

[isabel]

I really and truly can't wrap my brain around stuff like this. Why is removing her from the country she wants to call home helpful to anyone? How does her staying here impact anyone? She's not taking jobs away from uneducated white people because she's studying fucking biochemistry at a well-known university. She's educated, she has a father who is in the goddamn military, and she and her family are doing everything right.

I know I am a bit extreme in that I'd probably say yes to open borders at this point, but this shit just isn't right. It's not defensible. It's disgusting, blatant racism.

[VillainV]

I mean, I bet if she had been Norwegian and adopted into a white family, this wouldn’t be happening.

[nessness]

Sept 30, 2018 16:45:34 GMT -5 VillainV said:

I mean, I bet if she had been Norwegian and adopted into a white family, this wouldn’t be happening.

I know a Latvian woman who was adopted from an orphanage by a white family as a teenager, and I remember her telling me how they nearly didn't get the adoption finalized before she turned 17 and how she would have had to return to Latvia. So I'm not convinced this is true. Not that this makes this particular situation any less crappy.