Government Bars Gay Couple 2 Yr Old From Citizenship
By Char Adams
Andrew and Elad Dvash-Banks wed in Canada in 2010 and were excited to move to the U.S. after their twin sons were born in 2016. However, that joy soon turned to mourning when they learned the government refused to grant one of their 2-year-olds citizenship.
“He should be treated as any other child born to a U.S. citizen like his twin brother or like any other child born to a U.S. citizen abroad,” Andrew, who is from Los Angeles, said in a YouTube video about the incident. “We came to the United States and moved here but one of our sons entered on a tourist visa and entered on a tourist status.”
The couple’s sons, Ethan and Aiden, were born via surrogacy in Canada, with each boy conceived using a donor egg and sperm from one of the two men. Because Elad is from Tel Aviv, Andrew became a sponsor for his husband’s green card, granting Elad U.S. citizenship as a green card holder. According to the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, a child born abroad may become a U.S. citizenship at birth.
Even though Elad is a green card holder, authorities refuse to recognize the couple’s son Ethan as a citizen because of his biological connection to Elad. Aiden received a passport but Ethan did not.
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