It isn't, not without an amendment it seems. These people were too old to qualify.
The reason the law was that way is to prevent loopholes like someone adopting a 30 year old person and then using this law to naturalize them.
The reason the law was that way is to prevent loopholes like someone adopting a 30 year old person and then using this law to naturalize them.
Usually though good faith and bureaucracy don't mix. It is dangerous to have faith in bureaucracy. In a way that is what the parents did, how the girl at the end said her parent just believed common sense would prevail and even if there is a missing paper here and there, someone sitting across the desk will understand and fix the error eventually.