Adoptee Jennifer Haynes

Adoptee Jennifer Haynes was placed for temporary care and protection in an orphanage by her mother when she was 5 years old. Without her mother’s consent, in 1989, the Indian Courts orders were obtained by one Trust of a US adoption agency. She was abused by her adoptive father, and the adoption was ended.

She also got abused by the second adoptive family, after which she ended up in the US foster care system. After a conflict with the law she was convicted to jail. After finishing her jail term, the US deported her back to India as apparently her adoption though finalized; her US Citizenship was not processed by the American Adoption Agency (AIAA) through her Adoptive Parents. Jennifer has two children aged 5 & 6 (apparently US Citizens) who are living with her mother in law in the US. This being one of the worst punishment that a Human Being is made to suffer, that Jennifer, a Mother of 2 minor children cannot enter the country US, when her own minor children as US Citizens.

Jennifer’s papers are in possession of ACT. The research done by ACT, their Attorneys, it is evident that the Indian Authorities as well as the US Authorities have been unjust to Jennifer as well as her 2 minor kids, by mechanically deporting her from US and having accepted her in India as any ordinary illegal expatriate.

ACT is supporting Jennifer in Petitioning the Courts, against the Adoption Agencies in India and in the US as well as the Authorities. ACT with their expert Attorneys in India and US, in working out modalities seeking legal intervention and assistance finding ways to send Jennifer back to the US, reunite with her children and claim compensation and damages.

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SC seeks clarity on citizenship status of adopted child

New Delhi, April 9, 2013, DHNS:
A two-judge bench of the Supreme Court (SC) presided by Justice Gyan Sudha Misra on Monday has asked the Centre to explain the citizenship status of a child adopted by a foreign couple.

The apex court poser came while hearing a special leave petition filed by 31-year-old Jennifer Edgell Haynes whose inter-country adoption had gone terribly wrong.
The court wanted to know if such an adopted child is granted citizenship of the country of the adoptive parents.

Haynes was deported back to India on a direction from an American court after being allegedly involved in a drug case in 2008.

She was adopted by an American couple from a Mumbai orphanage in 1989 when she was seven years old. However, the couple had differences within two years. She was then handed over to another American couple in Michigan.

But, she claimed, her tale of woes continued as she was exploited by her new foster parents, forcing her to take shelter in another home.

Ultimately, the woman got married and had children. But her life took another turn when she was caught in a drug case in 2008, forcing US authorities to send her back on the ground that she was not a US citizen and had no right to stay there. Now, she wants to return to the United States to be reunited with her minor children. The court was moved after going through her story.

“If she is married to a US citizen, then, is citizenship not granted automatically,” the bench, also comprising Justice J Chelameswar, asked Additional Solicitor General Siddharth Luthra. “Why should she be deported back to India,” the bench wondered.
The court also asked if adopted children were not granted citizenship of the country of the foster parents. Luthra, on his part, submitted that he wanted two weeks to go into the details of the case.

 

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Press Invite New Delhi: Child trafficking and intercountry adoption: Need to unveil the reality

PRESS INVITE

Date: 19th February 2013
Venue: Press Club Lawns, 1, Raisina Road, New Delhi-110 001
Time: 3:30 pm

Child trafficking and intercountry adoption: Need to unveil the reality

See Full Press Invite HERE

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Deported woman seeks MEA’s help

Source: http://www.firstpost.com
May 28, 2012

In a letter to Krishna, Jennifer Edgell Haynes, claims that she was a victim of child trafficking, sexual abuse and exploitation after she was adopted by an American couple when she was seven years old.

Seeking the minister’s help.

“Until three years back I believed I was a citizen of the United States. Now I realize that I was a victim of child trafficking, sexual abuse and exploitation,” Hayens said in an email sent to the minister through Anjali Pawar, of Sakhee, a Pune-based NGO. (more…)

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Sans home and identity: A story from the US

Source:http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com  
Ambika Pandit, TNN, Nov 7, 2010, 04.17am IST

MUMBAI: Among the many looking forward to American President Barack Obama’s visit toIndia was an anxious Jennifer Edgell Haynes. She has no interest in Indo-US relations. All she wants is to be reunited with her family in Michigan.  (more…)
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Deported from Chicago, she waits for Barack Obama

Source:http://www.dnaindia.com 
Published: Saturday, Nov 6, 2010, 2:22 IST
By Mayura Janwalkar | Place: Mumbai | Agency: DNA

Jennifer Haynes, 28, abruptly deported from Chicago in 2008, is eagerly waiting for US president Barack Obama’s visit to Mumbai in the hope that her letter will reach him and she may be able to go home to her husband and children. (more…)

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Jennifer’s kids want their mother back

Source: www.timesnow.tv
21 Mar 2010, 0932 hrs IST

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‘Adopted’ woman fights for identity

Source: http://www.timesnow.tv/articleshow/4340846.cms
18 Mar 2010, 0845 hrs IST
For over two years now, Jennifer Haynes has been languishing in Mumbai away from her family in the USA. In her 24 years, Jennifer has seen far more of the cruel world than her peers. Entrusted to a children’s home at a tender age to get an education, she was instead given up for adoption to an American couple when she turned 8. “There are so many things that happen and nobody knows. (more…)
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The Secret is Out – Jennifer was Trafficked as a Child

March 18, 2010
By Karyn S. Schiller
Filed under: Immigration Law

The approximately 700 pages of documents that I received in response to the Freedom of Information Request filed with USCIS on Jennifer Haynes’ behalf have turned out to be a gold mine of information. The biggest nugget of them all was the Indian baptismal certificate that we found buried among all the other paperwork. The certificate contained the names of Jennifer’s biological mother and father and as a result thereof she has been able to find her family!! Unfortunately for Jennifer, her mother died in 2006 before Jennifer was deported to India and before they could be reunited. Before she had the chance to meet just one more time with the daughter that we now know was sold out from under her. (more…)

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‘Sorry, I can’t disclose the identity of Haynes’s mum’ Mayura Janwalkar

Source: www.dnaindia.com
DNA Tuesday, February 9, 2010 

Twenty-one years after 85-year-old Clarice D’souza gave away Jennifer Haynes, 28, in adoption to US national George Hancox, she filed an affidavit in the Bombay high court, stating that she could not disclose the identity of her biological mother. Haynes was deported to India owing to incomplete adoption formalities at the time of her adoption in 1989. Haynes, who was separated from her American husband and two children — aged six and five — as a result of her abrupt deportation, had alleged various malpractices under the guise of foreign adoptions and sought action against the Americans for International Aid and Adoption that processed her adoption. Refuting allegations made by Haynes, D’souza, a trustee of the now defunct Kuanyin Charitable Trust from where Haynes was adopted, has stated that many children are adopted by US nationals and they settle and adapt well. D’souza has stated that Haynes allegations are baseless and her petition in court is not maintainable, as she has not exhausted the remedies available to her. (more…)

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