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The Atlantic The IVF Cases That Broke Birthright Citizenship The U.S. had to rethink its definition of parenthood, to account for children born abroad to American parents using egg and sperm donors or surrogates. 7:00 AM ET Share Ethan and Aiden Dvash-Banks are twin brothers—born just four minutes apart on the same September day in the same hospital room in Ontario, Canada. But shortly after their birth in 2016, the U.S. State Department decided that the two boys were very different in the ey...

US to Grant Citizenship to Children Born via IVF or Surrogacy The United States is now granting citizenship to children born through in vitro fertilization or other means of assisted reproductive technology, such as surrogacy. President Joe Biden’s administration is changing the federal government’s interpretation of Section 301 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA), which outlines the requirements for acquisition of U.S. citizenship at birth. Previously, the government required ch...

State Department restores citizenship rights to children born abroad to married same-sex couples FacebookTwitterEmail Elad Dvash-Banks, left, and his partner, Andrew, pose for photos with their twin sons, Ethan and Aiden in their apartment in 2018 in Los Angeles.Jae C. Hong/Associated Press The Biden administration restored citizenship rights Tuesday to children born abroad to married same-sex couples from the United States. Under the policy announced by the State Department, the child will be ...

The State Department reverses a policy that denied citizenship to some babies born abroad to same-sex parents. Elad Dvash-Banks, right, and his partner, Andrew, play with their twin sons, Ethan, left, and Aiden, in their apartment in Los Angeles, in January, 2020. In a decision issued in October, 2020, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a lower court ruling recognizing the citizenship from birth of Ethan Dvash-Banks, a twin boy born abroad by surrogacy to the couple.Credit...Jae C. Ho...

McCarthy Announces Opposition to Jan. 6 Commission Last Updated May 19, 2021, 6:38 a.m. ETMay 19, 2021, 6:38 a.m. ET The top House Republican said he could not support an inquiry into the attack on the U.S. Capitol by a pro-Trump mob because it would not examine unrelated “political violence” associated with the left. Representative Rashida Tlaib urged President Biden to end his support of Israel amid its bombing campaign against Hamas. Here’s what you need to know: Protestors at the Capi...

U.S. revises policy that denied citizenship to children of gay couples Brooke Sopelsa © Provided by NBC News The United States has ended a policy that denied U.S. citizenship to some children born abroad to gay Americans. The State Department announced Tuesday that children born outside the United States to married parents, at least one of whom is an American citizen, “will be U.S. citizens from birth if they have a genetic or gestational tie to at least one of their parents...

State Dept. Ends Discrimination Against Children of Same-Sex Couples The policy had denied citizenship to the children of many married same-sex couples and had been successfully challenged in court. May 19 2021 4:17 PM EDT The U.S. State Department is ending a policy that denied citizenship to the children of many same-sex couples. During Donald Trump’s administration, the department had been sued several times over the policy, which said that children born abroad to married same-sex couples...

Why Is the State Dept. Still Discriminating Against LGBTQ+ Families? May 08 2021 12:47 AM EDT I’m Allison Blixt, an American citizen born and raised in the U.S. My wife and I have two sons, yet only one of them is recognized by the U.S. government as having U.S. citizenship. Fifteen years ago, I met my wife Stefania Zaccari when she was visiting New York City from Rome. We knew early on in our relationship that we wanted to build a life together. At the time, we couldn’t live in New York b...