Nepal

Discrimination against LGBTQ+ parents

According to a 2025 joint submission to CEDAW, Nepal only allows citizenship by descent for children born to heterosexual parents. Children adopted by same-sex couples have no pathway to acquire Nepali citizenship. The citizenship provisions in the Constitution only identify a father and a mother as the legal parents. Despite Nepal’s Supreme Court order to register same-sex marriage, the substantive and procedural laws on the acquisition of citizenship from either of the gay parents have yet to be enacted.