USCIS removed barriers to U.S. citizenship for children born abroad via assisted reproductive technology.
August 11, 2021
Last week, USCIS announced updated policy guidance affecting children born outside of the United States and the determination of whether children born through assisted reproductive technology are considered to have been born “in wedlock”. This policy update will allow a non-genetic, non-gestational legal parent of a child to pass on United States citizenship to the child if the parent is married to the child’s genetic or gestational parent at the time of the child’s birth, and the relevant jurisdiction recognizes both parents as the child’s legal parents.