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Items tagged: lgbt immigration

DOMA Deportations Could Stop: More Couples Making Headlines

It has been an incredible summer for same-sex binational couples, with numerous cases, rulings and directives that may signal the beginning of the end of DOMA-based deportations.


Uniting American Families Act Reintroduced with Record Support

Media Contacts:
Amos Lim, Out4Immigration, 415-608-5526, amos@out4immigration.org
Kathy Drasky, Out4Immigration, 415-606-2085, kathy@out4immigration.org

Legislation and Letter from Congress Increases Demand for Protection of Same-Sex Binational Couples, Families from Discriminatory Immigration Law


USCIS: Allow Love, and Say Yes to Keeping Our Families in the US

by Chris Barnett, cross-posted from Daily Kos and Out4Immigration's blog

This posting is dedicated to Gina, who is soon exiling herself from her home on the West Coast to be with her partner in the UK. We should be ashamed to let ourselves lose this good citizen as she does what she must for herself, and for love.


First Steps on Same-Sex Binationals Path to Green Cards

crossposted from Out4Immigration's blog.... by Kathy Drasky


Don't Leave LGBT Families Out of Immigration Reform!

The following op-ed was published on New American Media about the need to make sure that Comprehensive Immigration Reform includes LGBT Families!


Out4Immigration’s Weekly Letter Writing Campaign for LGBT Immigration Rights Marks 1-Year Milestone

One year ago, Gina Caprio, an American citizen living in Sacramento, CA was determined to do something to change the way unjust US immigration law was affecting her life. Caprio had fallen in love with someone in the UK a few years earlier. The relationship had taken the usual twists and turns associated with a long-distance romance, but when Caprio and her partner decided they wanted to live together in the US, a door slammed shut.