Immigration Equality filed a case on our behalf against the State Department for recognition of our son as a U.S. citizen from birth — and to change the policy for all LGBTQ families.
Other couples like us have taken the State Department to court over the policy, and every federal judge who has heard their arguments recognized the couples’ child as a U.S.
citizen from birth. Unfortunately, the harmful policy remains, and Lucas has not been recognized as American.Ours is the first case about this policy to move forward under the Biden administration, and we're hoping the government will finally act differently.
This Mother's Day, I call on the State Department to acknowledge that both Stefania and I have always been, in love and in law,.