Andrew Fenton, 58, was adopted from Vietnam by an American couple in 1975 after his father falsely claimed he was an orphan, but he never obtained US citizenship because the adoption agency and his parents were not told to file the required paperwork. He accumulated minor arrests over decades, and in August 2025 immigration agents detained and deported him to Vietnam. Fenton, who has no family there and does not speak Vietnamese, initially worked 12-hour security shifts before finding better-paying work as a cook at a cafe in Vung Tau. More than a year after his deportation, he obtained a Vietnamese birth certificate listing his name as Nguyen Bao Linh and his birth date as Oct 23, 1967; it names his father, Nguyen Bao Tinh, a former South Vietnamese Air Force member who raised him at an airbase in Danang, while leaving his mother's name blank.