Immigration Equality

The nation’s leading LGBTQ immigrant rights organization.

If you are in detention, call: (917) 654-9696
Mon-Wed 9:30 - 5:30pm, Thurs 1:00 - 5:30pm For all other inquiries, call : (212) 714-2904
Wed 1:00 - 4:00pm

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Immigration Equality has apparel and other items for you to wear your support (or put your coffee in it).

Proceeds go to providing free legal services to LGBTQ asylum seekers escaping violence and persecution.

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Join the movement for LGBTQ and HIV-positive immigrant rights.

USCIS Ends Discriminatory Policy Against Queer Families! The Agency Now Acknowledges Marriages of Same-Sex Couples and Their Right to Confer U.S. Birthright Citizenship to Their Children.

Client Stories

Edafe is a gay refugee from Nigeria who was granted asylum. In Nigeria, he was a victim of mob violence due to his work advocating for LGBTQ access to health care. He is now an author and runs a refugee shelter.

Denise is a transgender woman from Trinidad who fled to the United States in 2004 after being brutally assaulted. Thanks to Immigration Equality, she was granted asylum.

Baby Simone was born abroad to a same-sex couple, and the State Department treated her as “born out of wedlock.” We represented the family in federal court, and she is now recognized as a U.S. citizen since birth!