Family, Unvalued Discrimination, Denial, and the Fate of Binational Same-Sex Couples under U.S. Law

Author: 
Human Rights Watch and Immigration Equality
Year: 
2006
Month: 
May
Publisher: 
Human Rights Watch and Immigration Equality
Description: 

This report documents the crippling barriers that binational same-sex families face. In the case of a binational heterosexual couple where one partner is foreign and the other a U.S. citizen, the right to enter the U.S. can be claimed with a few strokes of a pen. They need not even marry: they need only show to a U.S. consulate abroad that they intend to do so and have met at least once before in their lives. But a lesbian or gay couple cannot even claim basic rights.

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