“To provide for automatic acquisition of United States citizenship for certain internationally adopted individuals, and for other purposes.”
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This section revises the adoption provisions for automatic U.S. citizenship of children born outside the United States to a U.S. citizen parent under section 320(b) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1431(b)) as follows: (1) applies the general automatic citizenship requirements of subsection (a) to a child adopted by a U.S. citizen parent who meets the adoption criteria in INA §101(b)(1)(E), (F), or (G), regardless of the adoption finalization date; (2) notwithstanding INA §318, grants automatic citizenship to individuals born outside the U.S. who were adopted by a U.S. citizen before age 18, physically present in the U.S. before age 18 in the citizen parent's legal custody pursuant to lawful admission, never acquired U.S. citizenship before enactment, and residing in the U.S. on the date of enactment pursuant to lawful admission; and (3) grants automatic citizenship upon lawful U.S. admission to similar individuals residing abroad on the date of enactment, waives INA §212(a) grounds of inadmissibility, and bars visa issuance unless a criminal background check is conducted and any revealed unresolved crime is addressed by the Secretaries of Homeland Security and State in coordination with law enforcement.