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fumi.camb |
Get your U.S. Rep. to sponsor "Uniting American (LGBT) Families Act"
Feb 6 2009, 11:12 PM EST
Great News! Rep. Jerrold Nadler plans to reintroduce the Uniting American Families Act on Feb. 13!You can make the bill a success by convincing your Representative to support the bill from Day One. Reintroducing the bill with as many cosponsors as possible will show powerful momentum for the rights of gay and lesbian binational couples of all the 50 States! Please call your Representative and ask them to be an original cosponsor of the “Uniting American Families Act of 2009” It’s easy! 1. Find out who your U.S. House Representative is. Go to http://www.congressmerge.com/onlinedb/index.htm enter your address, and you will be provided the name of your U.S. Representative. 2. Call the U.S. Capitol Switchboard at (202)224-3121 and ask to be connected to your U.S. Representative. 3. Tell your representative’s staff: I am calling to ask Representative ________________ to be an original cosponsor of the Uniting American Families Act of 2009. To cosponsor, he/she must contact Rep. Jerrold Nadler who is the lead sponsor. The U.S. government discriminates against gay and lesbian binational couples by not allowing us to sponsor our foreign-born life partners for immigration. Because of this, we face the terrible choice of separating from the person we love or leaving our country. As Americans, we should not have to choose between family and country. Please ask Rep. _________________ to cosponsor the Uniting American Families Act of 2009 by reaching out to Rep. Nadler before February 12. Thanks for asking your member of Congress to celebrate love this Valentine’s Day by cosponsoring UAFA! 9 out of 9 found this valuable. Do you? |
atmasilver |
1. RE: Get your U.S. Rep. to sponsor "Uniting American (LGBT) Families Act"
Feb 7 2009, 12:13 PM EST
What's the Uniting Americans Family Act?
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fumi.camb |
2. RE: Get your U.S. Rep. to sponsor "Uniting American (LGBT) Families Ac
Feb 7 2009, 1:41 PM EST
"The U.S. government discriminates against gay and lesbian binational couples by not allowing us to sponsor our foreign-born life partners for immigration. Because of this, we face the terrible choice of separating from the person we love or leaving our country. As Americans, we should not have to choose between family and country."This is a Bill to allow ALL binational LGBT families in U.S. to sponsor Green Card to their foreign-born partners, just like heterosexual marriages: No State marriages in MA, CT or CA can grant foreign-born spouses' immigration currently; newly wed same-sex wives or husbands get deported by State marriage (can never come back, leaving children in the States) and the American-born spouses automatically become convicted felon w/ 5 digits fine$ on a base of 'lying to Homeland Security', if the foreign-born spouses were here on a non-resident Visa (i.e. student etc). This bill opens up family based Visa sponsorship from 'only heterosexual families' to All 50 States' LGBT Families overnight regardless of their current State laws (extends to no state same-sex couple recognition, state Civil Union, etc) so that they don't have to choose between family and country. Already there are many original co-sponsors of the bill from the past decade, but for the first time, we have a real chance to pass it during 2009 U.S. House session if we lobby. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniting_American_Families_Act Thank you for the inquiry, atmasilver! 9 out of 9 found this valuable. Do you? |
