A federal judge in Maryland on Wednesday said the State Department must recognize the U.S. citizenship of a gay couple’s daughter who was born in Canada via surrogate.
U.S. District Judge Theodore D. Chuang ruled in favor of Roee Kiviti and Adiel Kiviti of Chevy Chase, Md., who were legally married in California in 2013.
Their daughter, Kessem Kiviti, was born in February 2019. A lawsuit the couple filed in the U.S. District Court of Maryland last September notes the Kivitis were both American