ADOPTION FUN FACT

If you’re adopted internationally into the United States, BY adoption LAWS you’re legally a citizen, but you still have to apply for documentation and if it’s not done by the age of 18 you have to pay over $500 and get a judge to reopen your adoption case. 

Even More Fun Fact: No one actually tells adoptive families, this so many find out after they’re 18 when their kid needs to get a passport, wants to apply for financial aid, get certain jobs, vote or some other shit that requires proof of citizenship and now it’s too late because they’re 18 or over. 

AND EVEN MORE FUN FACT! You can sometimes even be deported because you can be considered foreign-born, non-citizens! 

Oh and they won’t accept adoption papers or a birth certificate as proof. 

Adoption is FUN. 

Do it now! Seriously. Even if you think you are safe. Do it.

Many people are finding that even a birth certificate is not valid proof anymore. Texas birth certificates are notorious. So notorious that I have 3 friends who can’t use them to get passports! Don’t think everything is hunky dory. You must nail down your citizenship.

http://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/filling-out-form-n-600-application-certificate-citizenship.html

Plus the cost for your citizenship certificate is almost doubling this fall.

SIGNAL BOOST.

Some Naturalization/Citizenship Certificate tips from me, the person who front-end processes these forms for half the country: the passport people are absolute garbage at sending your Naturalization Certificate back to you. Unfortunately, they also require it for you to get a passport. If you don’t get it back, whine at them about it and they will probably cover the cost of the replacement.  

Also! It takes up to 12 months to get a replacement certificate. If you urgently need your Natz Cert to visit your dying relative in another country, the word you want to use is ‘Expedite’. Not ‘ASAP’. Not ‘rush’. Expedite. Write a letter explaining why you need it expedited, if you do. Otherwise the USCIS data-entry grunts (me!) aren’t allowed to throw it into the expedite line and it gets relegated to the Backlog Crypts. 

Also! You need to get a new Naturalization Certificate if your name and/or gender legally changes, because a lot of places want your proof of citizenship for things like Social Security and student loans and Medicaid/EBT/welfare benefits and drivers’ licenses. 

ALSO ALSO both the N600 ($600) that you use to apply for your Naturalization Certificate in the first place and N565 ($345) that you use to apply for a replacement certificate are eligible for FEE WAIVERS. It’s called an I912. Learn it, love it, use it. 

Please for your sake make sure you are using the current version of the form. The most common reason I have to reject an N565 is because someone sent me something that expired in 2013. The current one is seven pages long. Please send the government all seven of them. 

Dont mind me, just running ass home and then to the government so I cant get deported.

ALL OF THIS. I used to work for an immigration firm, and getting it done after age 18 can be hella difficult. But also, NO ONE tells adoptive families this, and it sucks. Spread the word!

“These are my children.”

“They look nothing li—”

“LOOK HOW BEAUTIFUL THEY ARE.”

for some reason I really like that she’s called Hilda.

This happened on my grandmothers farm when my mom was little,

baby ducks act a lot like baby chickens so in the beginning it wasn’t so bad

the main problem is that baby ducks  LOVE water, but baby chickens get very very dead from it,

so you can imagine the mother hens surprise and horror the first time they go by the farm pond and ALL THE BABIES RUN TO THE WATER AND JUMP IN

my grandmother had to come out of the house to investigate all the noise the hen was making

The mother hen was clucking and screeching in distress and running circles around the pond while the duckies were having the time of their lives.

This happened a few more times before Momma hen was like FUCK IT YOU WANNA SWIM SEE WHAT I CARE , and would sit a distance away watching them in the pond.

if the ducks ever abandoned any eggs my grandmother would always put it under that particular hens nest cause from then on she always knew how to deal with her “water loving” delinquent children

BEST ADOPTED MUM

Just introduced a kid to her adoptive parents. They brought her a dozen roses. We met at a restaurant. I arrived early to get a private booth and told the waitstaff what was up. So all the servers were having a cry in the corner. I’m at a coffee shop a few miles away, giving them space and having my own cry.

Adoptive mom clarified to me later: roses were pink because pink means forever.

What’s more important than the roses, though, is they also brought her a luggage set so she wouldn’t be moving her things in garbage bags. The luggage matches theirs, cause it’s family luggage for family trips.

And now the rest of us are crying too

Star Wars: The Ultimate Visual Guide.

The Jedi as “baby snatchers” has never made much sense to me–if they really were forcing parents to give up their children (something we never see in the canon, the most you see is an old Star Wars Tales comic that was a set of parents regretting giving up their child for adoption in a way that’s ambiguous) because if they had, god knows Palpatine would have used that to point out how terrible the Jedi were.  God knows, when Rebels did the whole “The Empire actually are stealing Force-Sensitive babies and taking them to Mustafar for forced training” they would have mentioned that the Jedi did the same thing.  And, of course, my favorite quote from Bail Organa:

As far as I can see, the Jedi didn’t actually force anyone to give up their children. (Though, I have no doubt there was anti-Jedi sentiment that regarded them as “baby thieves”, but I’m pretty sure Bail Organa is a more narratively trustworthy source!  XD)

While indeed the Jedi don’t take them by force, they however, take them indefinitely. That still makes them “baby snatchers” they might not resort to stealing, but they’re not planning on returning what they took either and that is what’s wrong.

They adopting them, though?  When a parent gives up a child for adoption, they give them up indefinitely, which is what the parents here were doing, not sending them off to boarding school.  :

Err, no, I can’t say these are the same things. When parents give up their children they do so for several reasons, some are good and some are bad. But still THEY can go back and get their child/or get to know their child if they want to. With the Jedi is like give us your babies and you will never see them again, ever. Not the same.

Now I’ve only just started the Jedi apprentice books, but don’t they at the very least imply that children/younglings have the choice to leave the Order? Before they are chosen as Padawans or before being an Initiate? Or all those kids who go off to the AgriCorps, aren’t they free to contact whoever and no worry about attachments? (Or is that last one a fanon I came across?)

Aren’t there also canon (or EU) examples of Jedi going back to their home worlds to reconnect? Mace in Shatterpoint goes to his home world and seems knowledgeable and I think he mentioned Depa connected with her own culture and that’s why she has the beads(of enlightenment?) on her forehead. It sounds like maybe it’s subjective. Some Masters encourage their Padawans to reach out and learn about where they came from and some don’t.

Also, FYI, here in reality there are both closed and open adoptions, and birth parents often give up all rights to their child through the adoption process. So, yeah, it's just like adoption, actually.

(Now as a parent, I can't imagine giving up my kids and you better believe I would be telling the Jedi to fuck right off. The only instance in which I would consider it is if non-Force-sensitive parents are physically incapable of caring for their Force-sensitive child, aka the welfare of the child is better with the Jedi than with their parents. But Shmi seemed to be raising Anakin just fine before Qui-Gon stepped in, and Beru and Owen did a bang-up job with Luke, so that's not the case.)

Heartwarming Pics Of Children Who Were Just Adopted

I love adoption stories. My mom adopted 3 kids and she never let us or anybody else make a difference out of the 6 of us. My biological brother had the same name as my adopted brother and people could not understand why my mom would name 2 sons in succession, Johnny. But we wouldn’t explain it. Adopt kids. Make it normal. Not the the thing u do simply when u cant.

This will melt a heart of stone.

^^^^ THAT PERSON UP THERE

please normalize the fuck out of adoption, i’ve given speeches and lectures and written papers about all the misconceptions and fears and rumors that plague the issues of adoption and make this perfectly normal, healthy, happy thing a rare occurrence in our society and that is sad and wrong

adoption is not “giving up” on a child, adoption is not a last resort, adoption is not just for certain types of families

please normalize adoption

Also please normalize adopting teenagers. I’m not saying you shouldn’t adopt young children and babies, but there are so many teens out there that just don’t get adopted because of their age. So please normalize adopting teens! 

this is so important.

I cannot wait to adopt…

Omg omg omg this makes me so happy. Also, thank you to the person who mentioned adopting teenagers. I was 14 and I know some people want a brand new baby but older foster kids need a home too.

One of the things I said to my daughter when we were talking about family options - we have fertility issues in our family and her case is even the more so - was ‘honey, adoption is not a consolation prize.’ Believe it.

Adoption has and always will be my first choice. (like any of the some 6000 of you calling me mom, are surprised)

ADOPTION FUN FACT

If you’re adopted internationally into the United States, BY adoption LAWS you’re legally a citizen, but you still have to apply for documentation and if it’s not done by the age of 18 you have to pay over $500 and get a judge to reopen your adoption case. 

Even More Fun Fact: No one actually tells adoptive families, this so many find out after they’re 18 when their kid needs to get a passport, wants to apply for financial aid, get certain jobs, vote or some other shit that requires proof of citizenship and now it’s too late because they’re 18 or over. 

AND EVEN MORE FUN FACT! You can sometimes even be deported because you can be considered foreign-born, non-citizens! 

Oh and they won’t accept adoption papers or a birth certificate as proof. 

Adoption is FUN. 

Do it now! Seriously. Even if you think you are safe. Do it.

Many people are finding that even a birth certificate is not valid proof anymore. Texas birth certificates are notorious. So notorious that I have 3 friends who can’t use them to get passports! Don’t think everything is hunky dory. You must nail down your citizenship.

http://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/filling-out-form-n-600-application-certificate-citizenship.html

Plus the cost for your citizenship certificate is almost doubling this fall.

SIGNAL BOOST.

Heartwarming Pics Of Children Who Were Just Adopted

I love adoption stories. My mom adopted 3 kids and she never let us or anybody else make a difference out of the 6 of us. My biological brother had the same name as my adopted brother and people could not understand why my mom would name 2 sons in succession, Johnny. But we wouldn’t explain it. Adopt kids. Make it normal. Not the the thing u do simply when u cant.

This will melt a heart of stone.

This. This is why I plan to foster.