On July 1, all Puerto Rican birth certificates will become invalid. U.S. officials say a big percentage of fraudulent applications for U.S. passports or social benefits use Puerto Rican birth ...

The Puerto Rico Supreme Court has ruled that nonbinary and gender non-conforming people on the island can update their birth certificates to include an X gender marker. The decision came as a result ...

Residents of Puerto Rico who say they are “nonbinary” will now be permitted to have an identifier on their birth certificates. The plaintiffs argued that Puerto Rico’s birth certificate policy ...

Massachusetts residents who were born in Puerto Rico are calling attempts to renew their licenses or identification in the Bay State a “catch-22.” That is how Springfield resident Luis Perez described ...

More than a million natives of Puerto Rico living in the United States - including thousands in southern New Jersey - will have invalid birth certificates July 1 under a law passed by the Puerto Rican ...

In what activists say is a landmark decision for Puerto Rico, a federal judge issued a ruling on Monday allowing nonbinary, intersex and gender-fluid individuals in the territory to adjust their birth ...

A boom in identity theft linked to Puerto Rican birth certificates has prompted the commonwealth to take a desperate measure: throw them all out. The surprising step, effective July 1, has created ...

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SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Activists on Monday celebrated a decision by Puerto Rico’s federal district court to allow nonbinary and gender-nonconforming people to update their birth certificates.