Same-Sex Marriages

The United States Citizenship and Immigrations service now accepts green card applications from gay immigrants and also recognize gay couples and gay marriages performed in any country outside US where gay marriages are performed legally.

Equally, henceforth gay couples who play the US Diversity Visa Lottery can now play the lottery together as a couple where one partner will fill the form and list his/her partner as a spouse unlike before where each partner had to file differently and each could not list his partner as spouse on the form given that gay marriages were not recognized before. And before, even if one partner won, he could not go with his spouse given that gay marriages were hitherto not recognizable by the US Department of Homeland Security.

Equally, winners of the current DV 2013 and 2014 Visa Lotteries who are gay and married have currently been allowed the rare privilege of listing their partners on their immigrant applications.

Statement from Secretary of Homeland

Security Janet Napolitano on July 1, 2013:

“After last week’s decision by the Supreme Court
holding that Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act
(DOMA) is unconstitutional, President Obama
directed federal departments to ensure the decision
and its implication for federal benefits for same-sex
legally married couples are implemented swiftly and
smoothly. To that end, effective immediately, I have
directed U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services
(USCIS) to review immigration visa petitions filed on
behalf of a same-sex spouse in the same manner as
those filed on behalf of an opposite-sex spouse.”

http://www.uscis.gov/portal/site/uscis/menuitem.eb1d4c2a3e5b9ac89243c6a7543f6d1a/?vgnextoid=2543215c310af310VgnVCM100000082ca60aRCRD&vgnextchannel=2543215c310af310VgnVCM100000082ca60aRCRD

Jayfalls: Same-Sex Marriages

The United States Citizenship and Immigrations service now accepts green card applications from gay immigrants and also recognize gay couples and gay marriages performed in any country outside US where gay marriages are performed legally.

http://www.uscis.gov/portal/site/uscis/menuitem.eb1d4c2a3e5b9ac89243c6a7543f6d1a/?vgnextoid=2543215c310af310VgnVCM100000082ca60aRCRD&vgnextchannel=2543215c310af310VgnVCM100000082ca60aRCRD

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