Texas Birth Certificate Rules Often Unenforced Texas has for 7 years said it won’t accept Mexican identification cards when issuing birth certificates for children of people in the U.S. illegally.

Texas Vital Statistics no longer accepts court orders to update birth certificate sex markers. Story by Cora ... to submit the court orders to the Attorney General’s office for its records.

However, Texas Vital Statistics Unit representatives are refusing to issue birth certificates, asserting the immigrants do not have proper forms of identification. The unit issues birth and death ...

Texas civil rights groups, on behalf of dozens of undocumented Texans and their children, say the state wrongly denied birth certificates to U.S.-born kids of immigrants. Now, they’ve reached a ...

The state of Texas has agreed to settle a lawsuit over its denial to issue birth certificates to children born in the U.S. to undocumented immigrants. After undergoing mediation, the state of ...

More than two dozen immigrant parents in South Texas sued the state this year on behalf of 32 children they claim had been denied birth certificates and access to vital services.. The lead ...

The birth mother is on the birth certificate while the biological mother is not. Texas is under court order to correct this disparity in the way same-sex couples with children are treated.

A version of this story ran in the November 2015 issue. Texas civil rights groups, on behalf of dozens of undocumented Texans and their children, say the state has wrongly denied birth ...

Texas Texas adoptees lose access to their original birth records. Getting them back is a challenge. Texas born adoptees can’t access their original birth certificates until they’re 18.

BROWNSVILLE, Texas (AP) — Texas has for seven years said it won't accept Mexican identification cards when issuing birth certificates for children of people in the United States illegally. But ...