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State Department will recognize citizenship of children born abroad to married same-sex U.S. residents
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metroweekly.comunless the couple could prove that the child had a genetic or gestational relationship specifically to the U.S. citizen parent in a binational couple.
That requirement will remain in place for children born abroad to unmarried parents, regardless of whether they are a same-sex or an opposite-sex couple.The new interpretation being embraced by the State Department now also takes into account advances in assisted reproductive technology that have occurred since 1952, and the legalization of same-sex marriage in the United States.Under the Trump administration, the department had clashed with several same-sex couples — and notably, three gay couples — over the citizenship status of their children.
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