Homeland Security sez I'm not U.S.

That sounds positively crazy!!!! Homeland security at its finest!!!! Seriously, I'd check with a lawyer who know immigration/adoption law and get it straightened out. You might call the college and give them a heads up, but you filed on your legal parents info so you should be ok. Do you have a birth certificate?

I don't know what the laws were when you were adopted but that is now true. I adopted my daughter from Ethiopia last year. I was born and raised in the US (adopted as a single mother). My adoption of my daughter is completely legal. However when she entered the US she entered as a Legal Resident. She is not an American citizen even though her only legal parent is. I had to re-adopt her in the US (her adoption was finalized in Ethiopia). And I have just applied for her to be changed to an American citizen. I can do that now that I have US adoption papers (but the application fee is now $420). Then she will be an American citizen. I don't know if you can just do that now (since you are 18). Go to the USCIS.gov site and print off form N600. Or if you have to apply for citizenship in another way because you are a legal adult now. Your current status should be legal resident which would require that you have INS approval to work in the US and that you would not qualify for SS benefits. I felt it was very important for my daughter that she gain citizenship status as soon as possible. Once you get citizenship you will need to notify social security since they likely have your status as legal resident as well. Best of luck,Samantha

My birth certificate is from Sweden, a six page paper with info I was adopted to a U.S. couple. I have all the papers now from my dad. After they adopted me in Sweden, we went to U.S. District Court in Los Angeles to certify entry to the U.S. No problem, just papers a judge signed. Then it was to California Superior Court for adoption under Cali law and that had two hearings the papers show. One is called Interlocutory Decree and the second one is Final Decree of Adoption. Real easy reading actually on all of it. Now the federal court papers show my adopting father as born in Sweden and naturalized in the U.S. before I was even born. My mom was born in California and is shown as a U.S. citizen by birth. Everybody assumed that meant I became a U.S. citizen then. I applied for a passport and it was way slow, like 7 months now and what I hear from is Homeland Security which says it intercepted my application bcz I don't qualify for a U.S. passport bcz I am a Swedish citizen. I thot sure I was U.S. My dad talked to a lawyer yesterday and he says Homeland Security has declared me illegal bcz I never was naturalized. The lawyer talked to the Swedish consul in L.A. and he is having a Swedish passport issued to me so I can get a green card and the lawyer said it ought be easy since the feds did admit me when I was 2 years old. I can't even register to vote now. I wanted to vote in 2008. But i guess I'm an illegal alien now and the feds have been collecting taxes on my trust fund my blood family left me. It's just 15 percent tax but I paid taxes and that's my college money I paid it on. One thing I did keep bcz my family wanted me to is my given names, Talon Stefan. My birth last name was Sjogren and my name adopted is Lindqvist since my adopted dad is Swedish. U kno what. I'm the only kid ever in my schools to have Talon for a first name. In Swedish it doesn't mean claw like in English. It means son of the sea. Stefan is for the saint named that.