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Court rules that State Department must recognize gay couple’s daughter as U.S. citizen

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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.

citizens who are born abroad are supposed to be considered U.S. citizens from birth, as long as one of their parents has lived in the U.S.

at some point. But the State Department has been routinely refusing to recognize the marriages of same-sex couples, often subjecting them to invasive questioning about how their children were conceived and their parentage, and treating their children.

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