Who We Are
Mission
The AAC’s mission is to secure U.S. citizenship for all intercountry adoptees. As individuals who were legally adopted by U.S. citizen parents, adoptees should have the resources necessary to live and thrive as American citizens. This includes access to social security benefits, driver’s licenses, jobs, education, voting, home loans, passports, and more.
Our Work
To achieve our mission of citizenship for all intercountry adoptees, the AAC is working to advance the passage of an inclusive Adoptee Citizenship Act in the U.S. Congress in 2021.
About Us
The Alliance for Adoptee Citizenship (AAC) is a coalition of organizations dedicated to passage of the 2021 Adoptee Citizenship Act in the 117th Congress (H.R. 1593 & S967).
Our network is made up of a diverse group of adoptees, adoptive families, grassroots organizing and advocacy groups, and allies—all of whom are working together to amend a technical oversight in the Child Citizenship Act of 2000. This oversight has resulted in the exclusion of thousands of intercountry adoptees from rightfully receiving automatic citizenship as legally adopted children of U.S. citizen parents.