The nation’s leading LGBTQ immigrant rights organization.

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Immigration Equality Responds to the Plight of LGBTQ People in Afghanistan

Now that airplanes are no longer taking off, there are still scores of people who need urgent evacuations. And there is still time to save lives.

We must all work together to find safe passage for those in our community who need to leave.

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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.
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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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