{"id":21299,"date":"2019-02-24T12:02:17","date_gmt":"2019-02-24T12:02:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/?p=21299"},"modified":"2019-05-16T14:03:23","modified_gmt":"2019-05-16T18:03:23","slug":"la-dads-win-citizenship-for-twins-defeating-trump-administration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/2019\/02\/la-dads-win-citizenship-for-twins-defeating-trump-administration\/","title":{"rendered":"LA dads win citizenship for twins &#8211; defeating Trump administration"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"819\" src=\"https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/LADads22419-1024x819.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-21300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/LADads22419-1024x819.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/LADads22419-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/LADads22419-768x614.jpg 768w, https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/LADads22419.jpg 1201w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption><em>(Photo <a href=\"https:\/\/www.immigrationequality.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Immigration Equality (opens in a new tab)\">Immigration Equality<\/a>)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div id=\"outstream_div\"><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0apntag.anq.push(function() {\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\/\/signal to script that this DOM element has been loaded and is ready to be populated with an ad\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0apntag.showTag('outstream_div');\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0});\n<\/script><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>A federal judge in Los Angeles ruled that the United States State Department was wrong to deny citizenship to the twin son of a married couple who happen to be gay. The State Department had only conferred citizenship status to his twin brother Aiden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Each boy was conceived with donor eggs and the sperm from a different father \u2014 one an American, the other an Israeli citizen \u2014 but born by the same surrogate mother minutes apart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Andrew, a US citizen was studying in Israel when he met Elad, an Israeli citizen. Because they couldn\u2019t marry at the time in the U.S. or in Israel, they moved to Canada, where they wed in 2010. The children were born via surrogate in 2016.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Trouble began when the dads brought their twins to the American consulate in Toronto to apply for citizenship and a State Department Consular official began asking probing questions that the couple described as \u201cshocking and humiliating.\u201d The consular official told them she had discretion to require a DNA test to show who the biological father was of each boy and without those tests neither son would get citizenship. The government had only granted citizenship to Aiden, who DNA tests showed was the biological son of Andrew, a U.S. citizen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A U.S. District Judge wrote in his ruling that 2-year-old Ethan Dvash-Banks, \u201chas been an American citizen since birth.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Aaron Morris, executive director of Immigration Equality said the U.S. State Department is discriminating against same-sex binational couples by denying their children citizenship at birth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.losangelesblade.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Los Angeles Blade (opens in a new tab)\">Los Angeles Blade<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#appId=172516468500&amp;xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:comments numposts=\"10\" width=\"425\" publish_feed=\"true\"><\/fb:comments>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A federal judge in Los Angeles ruled that the United States State Department was wrong to deny citizenship to the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":21300,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,64,24],"tags":[14367],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>LA dads win citizenship for twins - defeating Trump administration - Proud Parenting<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/2019\/02\/la-dads-win-citizenship-for-twins-defeating-trump-administration\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"LA dads win citizenship for twins - defeating Trump administration - Proud Parenting\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A federal judge in Los Angeles ruled that the United States State Department was wrong to deny citizenship to the\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/2019\/02\/la-dads-win-citizenship-for-twins-defeating-trump-administration\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Proud Parenting\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ProudParenting\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2019-02-24T12:02:17+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2019-05-16T18:03:23+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/LADads22419.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1201\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"960\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Editorial Staff\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Editorial Staff\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/2019\/02\/la-dads-win-citizenship-for-twins-defeating-trump-administration\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/2019\/02\/la-dads-win-citizenship-for-twins-defeating-trump-administration\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Editorial Staff\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/#\/schema\/person\/bd1f88f6dfdb00b831bfdda339ec5cf9\"},\"headline\":\"LA dads win citizenship for twins &#8211; 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