Wow. She gave it a good try for 6 months./s
And, the child is not a Russian national. He became a US citizen upon entry into the US.
Interesting, this letter states he is a “Russian National” - if she adopted him, wouldn’t he have become an American Citizen as soon as they landed here after the adoption.
I say this because when we brought our daughter home, she became an American Citizen the moment we landed at JFK.
Her second paragraph refers to the safety of her family, but the story refers to her as a single mom. Which is it ?
Well, she's wrong on that count. Under U.S. law, since I think, the year 2000, foreign born children adopted by U.S. citizen(s) becomes U.S. citizens at pretty much the instant the plane they are flying in (or other vehicle they are travelling in) touches U.S. soil. There's some paper-work to be completed with "Hoemland Security" (formerly INS), but it's pretty much a formality.
This woman sent an unaccompanied American boy to Russia.
The Russian-issued birth certificate my wife and I were presented with upon adopting our son lists the two of us as his "natural" parents.
Hmmmmmm.
Sayyyyyyyyy... ...now that I think about it, that means MY eight year old Russian-born son has better documentation regarding his qualifications to be U.S. president than the man currenly holding that office...