Many internationally adopted adults were never made naturalized citizens. Learn more from this NPR article here: https://www.npr.org/2025/04/19/g-s1-60166/trump-immigration-citizenship-deportation-adoptee-south-korea?
Missouri ponders a complicated bill that has been dubbed “eHarmony for babies”. Read the debate here: https://www.ksdk.com/article/news/politics/missouris-revamped-eharmony-for-babies-bill-government-overreach/63-dbb2f348-ad36-4085-90ab-429c4e4c4ca5
The state of Georgia became the 15th state to allow adoptees to access their birth certificates by voting to approve SB 100 on April 2, 2025: https://imprintnews.org/adoption/georgia-advocates-hope-to-ease-adoptees-access-to-their-original-birth-certificates/258295?
Switzerland is banning international adoptions: https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/foreign-affairs/why-countries-are-banning-international-adoptions/88858045?
Here is a massive investigation about the practices in Korea, the birthplace of international adoptions into the US, and shows corruption and fraud were widespread: https://apnews.com/korea-adoption-series