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Married
Yesterday, we had a paparazzi wedding ceremony at the Lutheran Church of Reformation in Washington D.C. It was nonetheless, lovely to share our love with so many people, including all our badass friends from the National Immigrant Youth Alliance, and the same-sex binational Read More …
Post-DOMA – How Can LGBT Persons Benefit Under Current Immigration Laws?
With the Defense of Marriage Act dead, marriage equality provides more than 1,100 federal benefits previously unavailable to same-sex spouses. I’m pretty sure that is an undercount given I can think of a hundred different immigration benefits alone. There are more than 24,000 Read More …
A Brief Reply to the Anti-Immigrant Utah Law
I am thrilled this morning, in part due to the wonderful news that Immigration Equality has filed an amicus brief against the controversial and anti-immigrant Utah law: According to Immigration Equality, the Illegal Immigration Enforcement Act, similar to the controversial Read More …
On Dog Bites and Bombs
Recommended reading for the week: This Dog Bites Several years ago, the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) dropped a bomb on my family. My mother was declared legal because her mother is a U.S. citizen, my father was Read More …
Gheys Thinking About Suing DHS
Look who is (finally) suing the Department of Homeland Security over how DOMA discriminates against bi-national same-sex couples: “There’s no doubt that the administration’s new stance on DOMA has created a new window of opportunity to advocate on behalf of Read More …