The nation’s leading LGBTQ immigrant rights organization.

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All families deserve to be treated equally

Same-sex couples and their families deserve equal treatment.

This is the moment for the State Department to stop denying citizenship from birth to children of same-sex married couples. The government must right the wrongs it has perpetrated for so long. Tell the State Department to change its discriminatory policy:

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Client Stories

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.

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.

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!
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