What irritates me the most is that they paid to get Ali's status adjusted from permanent resident to citizen, which is not a cheap process, when he could have remained a LPR for many more years and not had an issue. But instead they chose to use their money for Ali instead of working to make Miah a LPR or citizen.
Miah's circumstances are probably so screwed up, money to go through the citizenship process might be insignificant compared to whatever the real issues are.
She first says she put out the word to everyone she knew that she was looking for a baby (because that's a totally normal way for someone to go about getting a human baby), and then SHE got the call, blah, blah, blah, her solo, and the paperwork was done and she adopted him remotely, and he arrived like a package from amazon. And that Ali came into her life when Jeremiah was 1.5 yrs old, and is the only father he's known.
Now she says that his status isn't adoption, that ali came into their lives when he was 2.5, and the most puzzling of all: that he's on his father's insurance plan. That father being her ex-husband, and his co-guardian. So probably somewhat in his life. If/when she told Jeremiah that he was "adopted", and as she insists he has all the contact info for his birth family, wouldn't she have also told him about his adoptive father? But none of that probably happened, because if the guy is in his life enough to cover his insurance, he's probably actually in Jeremiah's life to some degree.
The whole guardianship/informal arrangement thing is not normal. For all we know, his birth family never planned to terminate their parental rights, but rather had so many kids and a limited income, so they sent him to stay with a family member (amy's ex), to be raised and educated, and then return to the island. (I'm not suggesting that's THE story, just an example of how weird this all might be).
Even with all that's come out, I doubt we've even scratched the tip of the iceberg that is poor Jeremiah's real story. Amy might insist she hasn't "black-marketed" a child, but at the very least, she's grey-marketed one.
ETA: that "good cars for good people" debt is hilariously ironic.
