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Posted by wichuck76 to India Adoptive Families on May 22, 2012 at 8:08pm | 3 Comments | Post a reply

Kairi Shepherd, now 30, of Utah, was adopted from India when she was 3 months old. Her Mom died when she was 8 and she was shuffled around from relative to relative. At age 17, she was arrested for fraudulent check use, and she served jail time.

It recently came to the attention of the US government that Kairi is not an American citizen because her Mom didn’t finish some paperwork before she died. Kairi is now about to be deported! She has never been back to India and doesn’t know any Indian languages. What makes this case even more of an emergency is that Kairi suffers from MS, and she will not be able to get the kind of treatment and attention in India that she can get in the USA.

Friends, adoptive parents, adoptees, NRIs and friends in India, will you please follow the link below and send a brief message to the Indian Consul General in San Francisco, saying that the U.S. is committing a human rights violation in removing Kairi Shepherd, an adult adoptee with MS whose mother died before naturalizing her.

The Indian Foreign Office and Consulate are conferring about whether to comply with the US government’s request to supply Kairi with the travel document she needs to be put on a plane. We believe that messages to the Consul General will make a difference. Let him know that adoptive families, adoptees and NRIs trust them to do what is right for this unfortunate one of their citizens. It seems the U.S. is unable to.

As they say in India, kindly do the needful.

http://www.cgisf.org/contacts/add?sendTo=cg

Replies

This is really sad. Can someone in the Utah area help her out or take her in?

Posted by Linte on May 22, 2012 at 11:03pm

She should be able to apply for naturalization herself since she is an adult

Posted by Linte on May 23, 2012 at 6:11am

Start a petition on change.org. If it gets enough notice and signatures, it can change the decision of the U.S. ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) from proceeding with the deportation. This sounds very unfair to me. She should also get herself a good immigration lawyer and contact her representatives in Congress.

Posted by sacohe on May 24, 2012 at 5:59am