{"id":2694,"date":"2019-05-31T12:57:10","date_gmt":"2019-05-31T12:57:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/silverimmigration.com\/?p=2694"},"modified":"2025-01-09T12:44:22","modified_gmt":"2025-01-09T12:44:22","slug":"same-sex-couples-refused-immigration-benefits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/silverimmigration.com\/en\/2019\/05\/31\/same-sex-couples-refused-immigration-benefits\/","title":{"rendered":"Same-Sex Couples Refused Immigration Benefits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court\u2019s ruling in <em>U.S.<\/em> v. <em>Windsor <\/em>(2013), guarantees same-sex couples the same immigration benefits as heterosexual couples. However, recently, some same-sex couples have been facing hurdles in securing citizenship for their children.<\/p>\n<p>James Derek Mize and Jonathan Gregg, both American citizens, are a married same-sex couple and on May 21, 2019, they received a letter denying their daughter citizenship because she was born abroad to a surrogate. Their case is the latest in a series of families being denied immigration benefits because they used assisted reproductive technology to have a child.<\/p>\n<p>In <em>Andrew Mason Dvash Banks and E.J. D.-B. <\/em>v.<em> the U.S. Department of State <\/em>(2016), a same-sex married couple experienced similar difficulties in acquiring U.S. citizenship for their son who was born through a surrogate in Canada. Even though one of the fathers was a U.S. citizen, the Department of State failed to recognize the validity of their marriage and required more documentation to prove that the child born was in fact the biological son of a U.S. citizen. After several years in the court system, a United States District Court judge finally declared that their son acquired U.S. citizenship at birth.<\/p>\n<p>In January 2018, in Washington, a child born overseas to a married same-sex couple, Allison Blixt and Stefania Zaccari, was denied US citizenship. In May 2019, a married same-sex couple, Roee and Adiel Kiviti, were told that their daughter would not be granted U.S. citizenship. Both parents are American citizens.<\/p>\n<p>It was previously thought that these issues were settled by a Ninth Circuit decision which held that in cases of children born to married parents (at least one of which is a U.S. citizen) there is no requirement of a blood relationship for the child to be deemed a U.S. citizen. However, these issues appear to be unsettled.<\/p>\n<p>We will provide further updates as they come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court\u2019s ruling in U.S. v. Windsor (2013), guarantees same-sex couples the same immigration benefits as heterosexual couples. However, recently, some same-sex couples have been facing hurdles in securing citizenship for their children. James Derek Mize and Jonathan Gregg, both American citizens, are a married same-sex couple and on May 21, 2019, they received [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":138432332,"featured_media":2697,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_first_post":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"{title}\n\n{excerpt}\n\n{url}","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1920],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.8 (Yoast SEO v28.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Same-Sex Couples Refused Immigration Benefits | Silver Immigration<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Stay informed about the latest developments in immigration law for LGBTQ+ families. 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