Colorado Couple Fighting to Stop Adopted Peruvian Daughter from Being Deported

This couple did NOT go through the adoption immigration process. There’s the adoption, which they DID complete and the immigration process, which they did NOT complete.They did NOT file a Form I-600A or Form I-600.

“When Amy and Marco Becerra first laid eyes on the girl they would soon adopt, she was a tiny, 11-day-old baby in an orphanage in Peru. A woman there told the couple that the infant had been abandoned, Amy Becerra told KDVR News.

“She literally placed this little five-pound, 4½-pound baby in our hands and said, ‘Do you think you guys can take care of her?’ ” she told the news station.

The Becerras, both U.S. citizens who were living in Peru at the time, agreed to foster the child in 2014. They named her Angela and for three years watched her grow from infant to chubby-cheeked toddler.”

A Colorado couple adopted a child from Peru. Now they fear she could be deported.

[Washington Post8/14/18 by Amy B Wang]

“A Colorado couple’s adopted daughter could be deported in the coming weeks after, they say, the Trump administration denied her citizenship application without explanation.[Oh please!]

Amy and Marco Becerra, both U.S. citizens, told Denver Fox-affiliate KDVR that they adopted their 4-year-old daughter, Angela, when they were in Peru in 2014. Marco Becerra also has citizenship in Peru, where he is from.

The couple said Angela had been abandoned at birth by a woman who was disabled and sex trafficked and was ultimately unable to care for the newborn.

The Becerras legally adopted Angela through Peruvian courts, and sought to bring her back to the U.S. after the adoption was finalized in 2017.

“We wanted her to have the opportunities that are available here, the education that’s available here. The American dream,” Amy Becerra told KDVR.

But Angela’s immigration application was delayed, and the U.S. government declined to grant her a travel visa for more than a year, they said.

The tourist visa that Angela was eventually granted is set to expire at the end of this month, but her immigration case was denied without explanation, according to the couple. It is unlikely they will be able to complete an appeals process before the tourist visa runs out.

“We’re both citizens. My husband and I have a full legal binding adoption completed and we have a birth certificate that lists no other parent,”[Yes, but you do NOT have  a IH-3 (or IH-4)VISA] Amy Becerra said, telling KDVR that she and her husband are scared to raise their daughter in the U.S. as an undocumented immigrant.

Both parents are government workers. Amy Becerra works for the state of Colorado and Marco Becerra works for the federal government.

“If she expires her visa, she is officially here as an undocumented alien,” she added. “And legally is at risk for deportation even though both her parents are citizens.”

The Becerras’ case comes during a time of increased tensions over the Trump administration’s immigration policies, and federal efforts to crack down on illegal immigration.

The couple has been reaching out to immigration attorneys, and is currently awaiting a letter explaining why their daughter’s case was denied. The outlet reported that an explanation should be available “within the next few weeks.”

Colorado Rep. Mike Coffman (R) said Monday that he met with Amy Becerra and has been helping the family get answers on their daughter’s case. He said that he is scheduled to have a meeting with Citizenship and Immigration Services officials on Wednesday, and has ensured that all the necessary documentation has been requested.

“I have full confidence that once this case is reviewed closely, we will have good news for the family,” Coffman said. “Angela is not going anywhere.””

Colorado couple fighting to stop adopted 4-year-old daughter from being deported

[The Hill 8/12/18 by Avery Anapol]

“They began legal adoption proceedings.  And by April 2017, a Peruvian court had legally recognized the adoption, paving the way for the family to return to the US.

But family life has been anything but simple since then. The Becerras were denied citizenship for Angela, who was merely granted a tourist visa.

She has now again been denied citizenship, and the Becerras fear she will have to leave the US when the tourist visa runs out on August 31.”

“She said the family had to stay in Peru for 13 months during the initial application, and it wasn’t until March that officials finally granted Angela Becerra a tourist visa.

But the upcoming expiry of that visa, and the decision to deny her citizenship, has left Angela’s future in limbo. “

Married US government workers are told their four-year-old adopted Peruvian daughter could be deported within weeks after her citizenship application was rejected

[Daily Mail 8/13/18 by Adry Torres]

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