Bi-National Married Gays Get Green Card Reprieve

Awww, cute sticker (bitchcakesny's flickr).

It is not a bad day to be a homosexual in a bi-national marriage! In the wake of President Obama's decision to stop defending the Defense of Marriage Act, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services offices have decided to stop automatically denying green card and immigration applications from gays and lesbians married to U.S. citizens. This comes a week after a Queens court agreed to delay the deportation of an Argentinian woman while the status of her marriage to an American woman from Queens was figured out in light of the sketchy future of DOMA.

Now to be clear, this is not to say that the applications are being accepted. Not at all. What CIS is doing is "holding in abeyance" all decisions on those cases until the status of the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act is clarified (i.e. when it hopefully gets struck down). So if you are in a bi-national, homosexual marriage you still want to make sure you've got yourself a good immigration lawyer before you file any paperwork. Because you never know.

But combined with the news that same-sex marriages count in New York (even if they still aren't legal here), this has been a good month for gay marriage.

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By Garth Johnston in News on March 29, 2011 2:35 PM

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Guest

None of this is happening. See here:
http://www.metroweekly.com/pol...

PaulaNYC

More robotic special allowances for the muckspammers. We should just list the ten amendments of the Bill of Rghts for straight people and then say, "Whatever you want" for the sexually confused.

And Cowboys, they ARE children. Pedophilia and incest are the next great "rights" struggles for the perv lobby.

robingee

Go marry a nice girl and have a life. It gets better.

Guest

That sticker is cute, but I can bet next week's paycheck, that some opponent of gay marriage will say something derogatory about it by referring to the silhouettes being children.