Court rules that State Department must recognize gay couple’s daughter as U.S. citizen
ruled that the U.S. State Department violated the federal Immigration and Nationality Act when it denied Simone Mize-Gregg, a child born via surrogacy in England, a passport because of its refusal to recognize the marriage of her two fathers, Derek Mize and Jonathan Gregg, as legally valid.Under the Immigration and Nationality Act, children of married U.S.