Federal agency halts green-card decisions for some gay illegals...Foreign nationals who are married to U.S. citizens of the same sex may apply for spousal green cards and other benefits, immigration authorities announced Monday, but it remains to be seen whether the government will issue them. Today’s statement is the first domino to fall for LGBT [lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender] Americans with foreign national spouses,” The USCIS decision does not apply to deportations. However, the administration’s reservations about the Defense of Marriage Act led an immigration judge in New York to stop deportation hearings for a married Argentine lesbian found to be in the country illegally,
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/federal-agency-halts-green-card-decisions-for-some-gay-immigrants/2011/03/28/AFcClErB_story.html
The "hold" on same-sex married bi-national couples' green card applications -- celebrated by immigration and LGBT advocates -- is over, according to the spokesman for the agency that processes those requests.
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