State Dept. Ends Discrimination Against Children of Same-Sex Couples
The policy had denied citizenship to the children of many married same-sex couples and had been successfully challenged in court. May 19 2021 4:17 PM EDT
The U.S. State Department is ending a policy that denied citizenship to the children of many same-sex couples.
During Donald Trump’s administration, the department had been sued several times over the policy, which said that children born abroad to married same-sex couples in which one spouse is a U.S. citizen would be recognized as citizens at birth only if they had a genetic relationship to the citizen parent. This denied citizenship to many children born through assisted reproductive technology and treated same-sex couples differently from opposite-sex ones, who did not have to prove a biological relationship.
State Dept. stops denying US citizenship to children born through in vitro, surrogacy
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Replay Video UP NEXT The State Department will now grant U.S. citizenship to children born overseas to same-sex and heterosexual American couples through in vitro fertilization, surrogacy and other assisted reproductive technology, the agency said Tuesday, notifying all U.S. posts overseas and Congress of the historic change. The new policy comes after the agency has recently faced several lawsuits brought by same-sex couples suing for their children s citizenship losing two federal cases last year. The Trump administration had been fighting those losses, including by filing an appeal last August, and defending what had been longstanding U.S. policy that considered children born abroad to a surrogate to be born out of wedlock even when a couple was married.MORE: State Dept. fighting to deny US citizenship to gay couple s child
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(WASHINGTON) The State Department will now grant U.S. citizenship to children born overseas to same-sex and heterosexual American couples through in vitro fertilization, surrogacy and other assisted reproductive technology, the agency said Tuesday, notifying all U.S. posts overseas and Congress of the historic change.
The new policy comes after the agency has recently faced several lawsuits brought by same-sex couples suing for their children s citizenship losing two federal cases last year.
The Trump administration had been fighting those losses, including by filing an appeal last August, and defending what had been longstanding U.S. policy that considered children born abroad to a surrogate to be born out of wedlock even when a couple was married.
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