You're from the United States. You fall in love with a foreign national. Straight couples have legal recourse in this situation: get married and sponsor your spouse for citizenship.
Gay couples in this situation have no legal recourse, an issue that SF Weekly recently highlighted with the stories of several same-sex couples who were separated by US immigration law, or had one partner living in the United States illegally.
Because the federal Defense of Marriage Act prohibits legal recognition of same-sex relationships, couples married in California, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Iowa and Vermont can't sponsor their spouses for citizenship either.
Democrats in the Senate have included a provision for same-sex couples in their immigration reform proposal released April 29, which will give them the same immigration rights as straight cou
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Is Immigration rights for same sex couples possible
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BinatUK 600 days ago
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For US immigration partnered doesn't count (San Francisco Chronicle)
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MikeLA 1038 days ago
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Shirley Tan has been with her partner, Jay Mercado, for 23 years. The Pacifica women have twin 12-year-old sons and have been registered domestic partners since 1991. That means nothing to the federal government, which recognizes only a marriage between a man...
MARRIAGE EQUALITY USA, OUT4IMMIGRATION, AND LOVE EXILES REPORT ...California Chronicle, CAMarriage Equality USA, Out4Immigration, and Love Exiles whole-heartedly support all efforts to save Ms. Tan from deportation, alleviating her and her family of the egregious errors perpetrated by her previous lawyer, the grave, personal danger she ...
For US immigration "partnered" doesn't count (San Francisco Chronicle)
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USABound 1040 days ago
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Proud ParentingFor US immigration, 'partnered' doesn't countSan Francisco Chronicle, USAIt's a familiar story, said Rachel B. Tiven, executive director of Immigration Equality, which works to end discrimination in immigration law against lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and HIV-positive people. "We hear every day from American citizens ...MARRIAGE EQUALITY USA, OUT4IMMIGRATION, AND LOVE EXILES REPORT ... California ChronicleLesbian mom to be deported Friday Examiner.comBay Area family's life upended by immigration nightmare Bay Area ReporterTips-Q GLBT Newsall 26 news articles
A test case on same-sex fairness (San Francisco Chronicle)
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MikeLA 1040 days ago
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Shirley Tan is a 43-year old Pacifica homemaker and mother of twin seventh-grade boys. Tan also wears an ankle bracelet assigned by immigration agents after a dawn raid on her home two months ago. Barring a legal miracle, she faces likely deportation... Presented By: Inside Guantanamo: Sunday at 9P e/p Guantanamo Bay is one of the world's controversial prisons. This may be its final chapter. ...
Visit the Immigration Equality UAFA Action Page for information on how you can contact your congressional representatives to thank...
San Francisco Chronicle Calls for Passage of UAFA
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uluckidog 1043 days ago
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The San Francisco Chronicle editorial gets it exactly right: the problem is that our immigration law does not recognize Shirley and Jay as a...
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