“There is evidence to indicate Obama was adopted in 1965 by Lolo Soetoro”
What evidence?
Why is Obama still referred to as the step-child and Soetoro as the step-father in 1967?
Why is there no mention of an adoption when Soetoro was petitioning to get back into the US in 1967?
Something tells me that you have probably been presented with this evidence before. My recollection is that there are seven, perhaps eight pieces of circumstantial evidence that support the position of Obama being adopted by Lolo Soetoro. I have posted them numerous times, but I no longer have links for you, nor any inclination to hunt up links.
From Memory, Indonesian law makes an adoption automatic if the child is under the age of five when the father marries the mother. The divorce papers between Stanley Ann and Lolo Soetoro indicate that Barack Obama was regarded as a dependent child. Lolo did claim Obama in an application to remain in the Country. Obama's sister said that Lolo had Adopted him. Obama is listed on an Indonesian school record as "Barry Soetoro". Stanley Ann Dunham's passport application listed him as "Barry Soebarkah, which someone who claims knowledge of Indonesian language and customs asserted means "son of" and I don't recall what the other one or two things were.
Why is Obama still referred to as the step-child and Soetoro as the step-father in 1967?
Who was doing the referring? Even in an adoption, and especially if the child is aware of the adoption, it is not uncommon to refer to the step father as the "step father." I always did if the topic came up. The rest of the time I just called him "Dad."
Why is there no mention of an adoption when Soetoro was petitioning to get back into the US in 1967?
If it didn't work in 1965, why would he expect it to work in 1967? He already tried that and it didn't get him anywhere.