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Gay couple demands State Department recognize their two-year-old daughter’s U.S. citizenship

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See also: Judge grants U.S. citizenship to twin sons of Los Angeles gay coupleThis week’s arguments in the Mize-Gregg family’s case come on the heels of a federal judge in Maryland ruling in favor of another same-sex married couple, Roee and Adiel Kiviti, who were contesting the State Department’s refusal to recognize the citizenship of their daughter Kessem.In that case, Judge Theodore Chuang, an Obama appointee, ordered the State Department to issue Kessem Kiviti a passport and recognize her as a citizen, saying it was not clear why the State Department would subject same-sex couples and their children to “disparate treatment,” at least in comparison to opposite-sex married couples.The Mize-Gregg family’s lawyers expressed optimism that.

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