The State Department was ordered to issue a U.S. passport for Derek Mize and Jonathan Gregg's daughter, Simone.
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What interest do they have in pursuing this other than a wish to discriminate!?
Derek Mize and Jonathan Gregg filed a lawsuit in July 2019 after the State Department refused to recognize their daughter Simone as a U.S. citizen. Simone was born in July 2018, three years after the couple got married.
Both Mize and Gregg are U.S. citizens and are listed as her parents on the birth certificate, but the State Department treated her as if she was born outside of marriage, since only one of them has a biological connection to her, and that triggered additional conditions for the recognition of citizenship.
This would never happen to a heterosexual couple regardless of whether they are both the biological parents.
Isn't the birth mother the one considered to be the parent------------custodial parent and the child therefore gains citizenship through.
FYI, you are an idiot if you think trump is anything but pro-gay rights---he always has been... even well before even thinking of running for office.
You are the idiot! You are such a ******* idiot that I am not even going to try to explain why because you would not understand.
Surrogacy for gay men is now a common practice and the male donor is considered the birth parent
Obviously not----if the child didn't get automatic citizenship and an activist judge ordered it.
Here's the answer for you even you don't deserve it with your rude manners and foul mouth-------you really don't have the disposition to be around kids btw. You'd make a great nasty lib though....who doesn't bother to research before going on the attack. The Child may ACQUIRE citizenship if its biological father is a US citizen and has resided in the US for a certain number of years. Notice emphasis on biological as this aspect would have to be proven and ACQUIRE meaning that citizenship would not be automatic.
'As you might know, the longtime rule for overseas births is that the biological children of two U.S. citizen parents born outside the U.S. become U.S. citizens themselves, on condition that at least one parent has lived in the United States. (For details, see
Citizenship Through U.S. Citizen Parents (If You were Born Between 11/14/1986 and the Present).)
Children born outside the U.S. who have only one U.S. citizen parent may also acquire U.S. citizenship if the citizen parent lived in the U.S. for at least five years and, if the sole U.S. citizen is the father, the parents were married or the father legitimated the child.
These portions of the law were, however, written decades ago, back when surrogacy and fertility treatments were less common and certain techniques were unheard of. The legislators never imagined various possibilities, in particular where no actual genetic relationship exists between parent and child. Nor did they imagine how many people could, through ART, be considered "parents" of one particular child. The technology can potentially involve up to five “parents” in a child's conception and birth: a sperm donor, an egg donor, a surrogate woman who carries the fertilized egg, and two nonbiologically related people who plan to actually raise the child.
In trying to match the old law to new technology, the State Department currently takes the position that whether your child becomes a U.S. citizen depends chiefly on the following factors:
- Whether the child is genetically or biologically related to at least one U.S. citizen parent, either through genetics or “gestationally,” meaning that the mother carried and gave birth to the child. If not, for example, if the parents arrange for a surrogate to carry a baby conceived from a donor sperm and egg, citizenship will be denied.
- Whether the source of the sperm and the source of the egg are married. If not, separate legal standards relating to “out of wedlock” births apply under Section 309(c) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (I.N.A.).'
