All posts tagged "lavi soloway"
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DOJ Denies Any “Policy” on DOMA-Impacted Cases at Immigration Appeals Board
In response to Metro Weekly‘s exclusive June 19 report on a series of decisions from the Department of Justice’s Board of Immigration Appeals that sent...
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EXCLUSIVE: DOJ Immigration Board Decisions Suggest Plans For a Post-DOMA America
Recent decisions from the Obama administration suggest that the government is taking tentative first steps to gear up for the day when an American with...
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Immigration Equality Files DOMA Challenge, Obama Administration Left Them “No Choice”
Filing what she described as the organization’s “first big impact litigation,” Immigration Equality’s executive director, Rachel Tiven, tells Metro Weekly that the organization was “left...
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Bi-National Couple Who Made Headlines in San Francisco Case “Will Remain Here Together”
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) decided to grant deferred action on the immigration case of Anthony John Makk, an Australian who is married to...
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Defending DOMA, Fighting Back
Hamdi Lui and Michael Ernest Roberts, a same-sex couple married in Massachusetts but living in California, brought a case aimed at keeping Lui – a...
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Immigration Judge Closes Deportation Case Against Married Gay Man
Attorney Lavi Soloway writes, “San Francisco Immigration Judge Marilyn Teeter has granted Motion to Administratively Close Deportation of gay Venezuelan Alex...
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Immigration Judge Decides to Take Lesbian’s Marriage-Based Application Under Consideration
Sujey Pando, who is from Mexico and seeking asylum in the United States after facing a series of abuses and rape in Mexico, also married...
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Prosecutorial Discretion
Responding on behalf of President Barack Obama, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano today sent a letter to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid detailing that the...
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Immigration Woes
Over the past several months, many cases involving same-sex bi-national couples have hit the news. Almost all of these cases, where a U.S. citizen is...
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“Interest of Justice” Leads Immigration Judge To Reopen Case, Ask About “Same-Sex Spouses” and Visas
A Maryland immigration judge issued an order on June 24 reopening Rodrigo Martinez’s immigration case “in the interest of justice.” The unusual move — or...
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White House Sidesteps Deportation Moratorium, Favors Comprehensive Immigration Reform
Asked today to explain the difference between a 2009 moratorium on deporting certain widows and widowers of U.S. citizens and the White House’s failure to...
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Obama Does Not Mention Same-Sex Bi-National Couples in Extensive Immigration Speech
Today, in an extensive speech addressing his aims for comprehensive immigration reform, President Barack Obama spoke to a crowd in El Paso, Texas, about his...
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A Presidential Duty
Lesbian and gay couples have fought for inclusion in our family-based immigration system for decades. Today, the president himself agrees that discrimination against married bi-national...
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DHS Official: Bi-National Immigration Case Abeyances Could End Within A Week
The announcement on Monday, March 28, that the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services had...
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U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Asks Field Offices to Put Bi-National Immigration Cases on Hold
[IMPORTANT TUESDAY, MARCH 29, UPDATE: “DHS Official: Bi-National Immigration Case Abeyances Could End Within...
