Mirror Identical twins…adopted into different homes, different countries…

You really will enjoy the video and then read the following continuation of their story a year later…

Joy for adopted twins after Immigration red-tape U-turn

A YEAR ago, these identical twins were left heartbroken after authorities told them they were not officially related because they had been adopted as babies by different families.

This week they are celebrating after migration officials did a backflip, paving the way for the siblings to be reunited in WA. Carnarvon woman Rosabelle Glasby was devastated when told she could not bring her sister to Australia to live from Malaysia because the Department of Immigration and Citizenship did not consider them to be related.

Mrs Glasby and her sister, Dorothy Loader, who were adopted by different families soon after birth in Malaysia, were apart for nearly 50 years before finally meeting last year.

According to migration laws, the legal relationship between siblings – even identical twins – is severed when they are adopted out.

The Sunday Times revealed the case in January last year. But sorrow turned to joy this week when Federal Immigration and Citizenship Minister Chris Evans said he had intervened on compassionate grounds.

There is more to the article in the link above…

And while I am certainly glad the Australian government changed its mind, but really did it have to be so difficult and take the better part of a year?  Can anyone really deny that identical twins are related?  To state they are not related because some judge deemed it so by a stroke of a pen on an adoption petition?  Seriously people need to just stop and give their heads a shake.  Just another example of the insanity adoptees face.  And they say being adopted is a one-time event…