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发帖数: 4174 | 1 Posted on Advocate.com March 30, 2011
Official: No Hold on Gay Immigration Cases
By Andrew Harmon
IMMIGRATION PROTEST NEW YORK ARIZONA X390 | ADVOCATE.COM
Immigration officials will no longer put a hold on the cases of binational,
married gay couples, just two days after Citizenship and Immigration
Services announced that such cases would be halted pending further legal
guidance.
On Wednesday morning, USCIS press secretary Christopher S. Bentley told The
Advocate that the agency had received legal guidance to lift the hold it had
issued on Monday. The guidance was issued in the form of written
communications from the Office of the General Counsel at Department of
Homeland Security (USCIS is a component of DHS).
Bentley declined to release any of the written documents at this time,
saying it was privileged communication. He emphasized that the official
policy itself within DHS had never changed.
“The cases were held while we were waiting for legal guidance," Bentley
said. “There’s no need to hold the cases any longer.”
Legal advocates, who have increasingly argued that green card applications
and deportation proceedings of married gay couples should be put on hold
pending resolution of the Defense of Marriage Act's constitutionality, had
celebrated recent statements from immigration officials as a promising step
toward bringing parity to the system for LGBT individuals.
According to a Friday Newsweek/The Daily Beast piece, representatives for
district immigration offices in Baltimore and Washington, D.C. had recently
informed members of a local American Immigration Lawyers Association chapter
that all cases regarding married, gay couples would be put on hold.
Bentley said that as a result of the legal guidance from DHS, district
offices do not have the authority to put a hold on all such cases.
Immigration cases will continue to be handled on a case-by-case basis. “It
’s business as usual,” Bentley said.
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