Kiviti v. Pompeo, and decided not to appeal a U.S. district court’s decision in another, Mize-Gregg v. Pompeo, according to a press release from Lambda Legal.
The defendant named in both is Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.The State Department had considered the children born “out of wedlock” because they did not have a biological relationship to one of the parents, and therefore denied that they were citizens at birth.
In almost all cases involving married opposite-sex couples, the department has not required children to have a biological relationship to both parents in order to be recognized as citizens.The couple in Kiviti v.