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October 29, 2025

Congress introduces the Protect Adoptees and American Families (PAAF) Act

Congress has introduced the Protect Adoptees and American Families Act, also known as the Adoptee Citizenship Act of 2025, continuing a decades-long fight to secure US citizenship for all adopted people brought to the United States for adoption.

This bill would repair existing legislation so that all adoptees who were legally adopted by American parents are ensured U.S. citizenship.

Due to systemic flaws (like lack of oversight and a date loophole in legislation), not all adoptees were granted citizenship. As a result, they live in fear and under threat of separation from their families and the only home they know. Despite the fact that adoptees were brought to the United States to form American families these flaws mean that some adoptees have been subject to detention and deportation.

PAAF would repair this oversight and ensure that adoptees are equal members of their families, and have the same rights and opportunities as any American parents’ biological children would.

 

ACTIONS YOU CAN TAKE:

  • CONTACT YOUR MEMBER(S) OF CONGRESS: Contacting your personal Members of Congress is an impactful way to urge them to take action. As a constituent, your Member of Congress is duty-bound to represent you and to listen to your concerns and interests. Call and email your Members and urge them to support the PAAF Act that includes ALL adoptees. (We provide the scripts!)
  • DONATE: Help sustain our work by making a financial donation to Adoptees For Justice. Your donation can go towards our general operating costs, to support mutual aid efforts for adoptees without citizenship, and/or to provide legal support for directly-impacted adoptees. Click here to donate today.
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Thank you to Adoptees for Justice and Brooke Randolph for sharing these resources. 

Learn more here: Congress Introduces the Protect Adoptees and American Families Act, Adoptees United