Tag: citizenship

Even if the couple is married and both are listed on the birth certificate, the Trump administration says they may not be a family because they were "born out of wedlock." A Trump administration change to how immigration law is implemented has led to the children of same-sex couples being denied American citizenship. Several years ago, the State Department issued rules to how it would implement the 1952 Immigration and Nationality Act (INA). Before, under the INA, a child born to...

A gay couple filed a lawsuit this week after one of their twins was denied US citizenship. The twins, Ethan and Aiden Dvash-Banks were born to the same surrogate mother using sperm from each of their dads. Andrew, who has dual Canadian-American citizenship and Israeli-born Elad got married in Canada in 2011 and decided they both wanted a child genetically related to them. But their son Ethan has become a plaintiff in the lawsuit filed on Monday which seeks for him to...