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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Kim Tong-Hyung

Adoptee deported from US criticizes Korean government and adoption agency over lack of citizenship

South Korea Adoptions Crapser - (Copyright 2019 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.)

Adam Crapser, an adoptee who was deported to South Korea in 2016 because his American parents never secured his citizenship, delivered a scathing denunciation of the Korean government and his adoption agency in a Seoul appeals court on Wednesday.

The 49-year-old’s yearslong legal battle highlights the systemic failures by both governments to secure citizenship for potentially thousands of Korean children adopted into U.S. homes over the past decades.

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