{"id":2894,"date":"2012-05-20T18:32:15","date_gmt":"2012-05-20T18:32:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.againstchildtrafficking.org\/?p=2894"},"modified":"2012-05-25T21:03:29","modified_gmt":"2012-05-25T21:03:29","slug":"govt-may-help-kairi-shepherd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/govt-may-help-kairi-shepherd\/","title":{"rendered":"Govt may help Kairi Shepherd"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Source: http:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/India-news\/NewDelhi\/Govt-may-help-Kairi-Shepherd<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

\nCheta
\nChauhan<\/a>, Hindustan Times<\/strong>
\nNew Delhi, May 20, 2012<\/div>\n
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The Indian government may provide help to 30-year-old Kairi Shepherd, who faces threat of deporation from United States after a local court rejected her claim for residency. Kairi Shepherd was just three months old when she adopted by Erlene Shepherd from an orphanage in India,
\nthe youngest of her eight adopted kids.Erlene died when Kairi was eight years old, and she had not acquired US citizenship. At
\n17, Kairi was convicted of forging cheques to pay for her drug habit.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

At 30, she faces risk of being deported back to India as US federal court
\nrecently upheld the government\u2019s right to deport Kairi as she had failed to
\nqualify for citizenship by a few months under the Child Citizenship Act of
\n2000.<\/p>\n

Until 2000, parents were simply required to file a form before the adopted
\nchild turned 21 to claim citizenship. Apparently, Erlene had filled Kairi\u2019s
\nform, but failed to file it before her death.<\/p>\n

After 2001, legal international adoptions automatically conferred citizenship
\non children adopted by US citizens. Kairi, however, missed the deadline by
\nturning 21 a few months before the new law came into force.<\/p>\n

With her case been highlighted by Hindustan Times. the ministry of external
\naffairs has asked Indian Embassy in Washington to provide details about her
\ncase. “We have sought more details about the case,” an external affairs ministry
\nofficial said.<\/p>\n

The Central Adoption Resource Authority, mandated to look into all cases of
\ninter country, adoption has also asked MEA’s intervention. The authority,
\nhowever, said it can’t do much as Kairi Shepherd’s adoption took place before it
\ncame into being.<\/p>\n

“It is sad that CARA has washed its hand-off her (Shepherd’s case),” said
\nAnjali Pawar, director of Pune based NGo Sakee, which has filed a public
\ninterest litigation in the Supreme Court against inter country adoption.<\/p>\n

Although Kairi is out of jail but is in hiding fearing deportation by US
\nImmigration agencies. Her biggest fear is that if she lands in India there will
\nbe no one to take care of her. Kairi is suffering from multiple scolerisis.<\/p>\n

She, however, hopes that the Indian government will help as she has turned
\ninto a “global orphan”. The US has refused to acknowledge her even though she
\nhas been staying there for almost thirty years and here in India, it will be
\ndifficult to trace her roots. “I have no documents to trace my Indian parents,”
\nShepherd had told Pawar.<\/p>\n

Shepherd’s is not the only case of deportation of adopted Indian kid. In
\n2008, Jennifer Haynes, 32, who was sexually abused by her adopted father, was
\ndeported after being caught with drugs.
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Source: http:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/India-news\/NewDelhi\/Govt-may-help-Kairi-Shepherd Cheta Chauhan, Hindustan Times New Delhi, May 20, 2012 The Indian government may provide help to 30-year-old Kairi Shepherd, who faces threat of deporation from United States after a local court rejected her claim for residency. Kairi Shepherd was just three months old when she adopted by Erlene Shepherd from an orphanage in… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,53,18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2894"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2894"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2924,"href":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2894\/revisions\/2924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}