The Child Citizenship Act pertaining to a particular domain in the US immigration law has a loophole. The loophole could imply that thousands of adults adopted as children from other countries are in the US illegally.

The highlights of the Child Citizenship Act are:

• Until the year 2001, when the law took effect, parents of all those countries who were adopted from other countries had to apply for citizenship for their children.
• After the year 2001 the US government changed the immigration law, so that it only applied to those children born in the year 1983 and in the years after that.
•  Advocates of the immigration reform state that deportations in this kind of cases are very rare. Still the loophole exists.