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Immigration Equality is a national organization that advocates for equality under the immigration law for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBT), and HIV-positive individuals. We serve as an information clearinghouse, giving LGBT foreign nationals and their loved ones up-to-date information about immigration law via trainings, informational materials, and by answering email and telephone inquiries. We run a pro bono asylum project to assist LGBT and HIV-positive asylum seekers to find free or low-cost legal representation. Immigration Equality also maintains a list of LGBT/HIV-friendly private immigration attorneys to provide legal representation for those who contact us. We also provide technical assistance to attorneys who are working on sexual orientation, transgender identity, or HIV status-based asylum applications, or other immigration applications where the client’s LGBT or HIV-positive identity is at issue in the case.

In addition to the direct services we provide, Immigration Equality advocates for changes to the immigration laws that discriminate against LGBT and HIV-positive individuals and their loved ones. We are a member-driven organization connected with advocates throughout the country and abroad. Our members share their stories and educate the broader LGBT community about the discrimination they face as immigrants, and educate the immigration community about the discrimination they face because they are LGBT. Together, we work towards full equality under the immigration law without regard to sexual orientation, gender identity, or HIV status.

  • Immigration Equality is a national organization that advocates for equality under the immigration law for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBT), and HIV-positive individuals. We serve as an information clearinghouse, giving LGBT foreign nationals and their loved ones up-to-date information about immigration law via trainings, informational materials, and by answering email and telephone inquiries. We run a pro bono asylum project to assist LGBT and HIV-positive asylum seekers to find free or low-cost legal representation. Immigration Equality also maintains a list of LGBT/HIV-friendly private immigration attorneys to provide legal representation for those who contact us. We also provide technical assistance to attorneys who are working on sexual orientation, transgender identity, or HIV status-based asylum applications, or other immigration applications where the client’s LGBT or HIV-positive identity is at issue in the case.

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  1. In addition to the direct services we provide, Immigration Equality advocates for changes to the immigration laws that discriminate against LGBT and HIV-positive individuals and their loved ones. We are a member-driven organization connected with advocates throughout the country and abroad. Our members share their stories and educate the broader LGBT community about the discrimination they face as immigrants, and educate the immigration community about the discrimination they face because they are LGBT. Together, we work towards full equality under the immigration law without regard to sexual orientation, gender identity, or HIV status.

Immigration Equality is a national organization that advocates for equality under the immigration law for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBT), and HIV-positive individuals. We serve as an information clearinghouse, giving LGBT foreign nationals and their loved ones up-to-date information about immigration law via trainings, informational materials, and by answering email and telephone inquiries. We run a pro bono asylum project to assist LGBT and HIV-positive asylum seekers to find free or low-cost legal representation. Immigration Equality also maintains a list of LGBT/HIV-friendly private immigration attorneys to provide legal representation for those who contact us. We also provide technical assistance to attorneys who are working on sexual orientation, transgender identity, or HIV status-based asylum applications, or other immigration applications where the client’s LGBT or HIV-positive identity is at issue in the case.

In addition to the direct services we provide, Immigration Equality advocates for changes to the immigration laws that discriminate against LGBT and HIV-positive individuals and their loved ones. We are a member-driven organization connected with advocates throughout the country and abroad. Our members share their stories and educate the broader LGBT community about the discrimination they face as immigrants, and educate the immigration community about the discrimination they face because they are LGBT. Together, we work towards full equality under the immigration law without regard to sexual orientation, gender identity, or HIV status.

Jul 2, 2011

New Hope for Binational Gay Couples

The Washington Blade

LGBT advocates working on immigration issues are hoping the cancelled deportation this week of a gay foreign national living in the United States could be promising news for bi-national same-sex couples in danger of separation.

Jul 1, 2011

Halt to Deportation of Citizen's Same-Sex Partner Draws Fire

FOX News

More than 10,000 people have voiced their support for stopping the deportation hearings on a Facebook page featuring several photos of the couple now living in Princeton, N.J.

Jun 28, 2011

Time Running Out for Binational Married Couple

The Advocate

Japanese-born Takako Ueda and Frances Herbert married in Vermont April 26, but Ueda says the life she's known for the past 11 years will be interrupted July 5, when her visa to stay in the United States runs out, CNN reports.

Jun 28, 2011

CNN Airs Special Highlighting Struggles of LGBT Immigrant Couples

LGBT Weekly

CNN Newsroom aired a special report Tuesday morning in which Soledad O’Brien covered the discrimination and difficulty faced by LGBT immigrant couples under current U.S. immigration laws.

Jun 24, 2011

Matrimonios Gay Washington D.C.: Sigue la Lucha por Igualdad de Derechos

AOL Latino

Las parejas homosexuales pueden casarse en la capital del país pero no tienen todos los derechos que las parejas heterosexuales.

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