Spotlight on Adoption

All children born in the USA and adopted by Canadians over the past number of years (of which there are several hundred) are US citizens.  This, of course, brings a number of rights and responsibilities.  For example, they would be subject to a military draft.

The USA is the only country in the world that requires its citizens to report on their world-wide income, file a tax return, and pay US taxes, no matter where they live and irrespective of what other citizenship they hold. 

Now the USA has introduced a new and complicated law, which will affect every US adopted child in Canada.  The name of the legislation is "The Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act" (FATCA).

Prior to the earthquake in Haiti that country had many orphans, estimated by various sources as between 50,000 and 380,000.  Since the tragedy in January the number has increased, but no one knows yet by how many thousands.

What does the future of international adoption hold for children and adopting parents?  There are disturbing signs that the world is turning away from intercountry adoptions as a method of family formation. 

With the new US border-crossing requirements, how can adoptive parents travel with their newly-adopted child?

Proposed amendments to the Citizenship and Immigration Act limit the citizenship rights of some internationally adopted children.