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Can anyone help!
Back in 1954 was it possible for a new born orphaned child to enter america without adoption paper's and taken with married couple that had childs original birth certificate,who were imigrating from uk to united states.
If it was, can couple adopted the child in the states as their own. Is there any headquarters i can contact to get help with a matter regarding this.
Iam this childs cousin.:earth:
Any information would be of great help
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The best person to answer your questions is a reputable adoption/immigration attorney. Please consult one for a definitive answer.
Obviously, if the names of the parents on the child's birth certificate did not match the names of the people entering the U.S with the baby, this should have been noticed by the U.S. immigration authorities.
The authorities should have determined whether or not the people entering the U.S. had legal custody of the child. If the couple did not have legal custody of the child, the people should not have been allowed to bring him/her to the U.S.
If a slip-up occurred, and the child was not legally in the custody of the family traveling to the U.S., technically he or she could not be adopted in the U.S. U.S. law requires that the birthparents make a legal relinquishment of the child, and that a legal adoption occur under the law of the CHILD'S country of citizenship (which was the U.K.)
However, you have to understand that, back in the 1950s, the immigration climate was not quite what it is today. Adoption was on hardly anyone's radar screen. So it is possible that mistakes were made.
A good adoption/immigration attorney can help your cousin solve any problems that may be occurring if he/she was brought to the U.S. in an irregular way. As an example, he/she probably does not have either a permanent resident card or certificate of citizenship, which may make life difficult for him/her.
Sharon
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