UAFA would amend the Immigration and Nationality Act by adding the term “permanent partner” next to “spouse” for immigration to the U.S. Gay and lesbian couples would be subject to the same standards of proof that they are in a committed, life-long relationships and are financially interdependent as opposite-sex couples.
Urge your reps please…………………. 
Under the current system, thousands of lesbian and gay binational couples are forced into exile abroad, long-distance relationships or separation as a result. Faced with splitting families and taking children from the land of their birth – sometimes separating children from parent -this serves no public policy function and contradicts the central goal of U.S. immigration policy – family unification. UAFA would remedy this injustice.
H.R.2221
Title: To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to eliminate discrimination in the immigration laws by permitting permanent partners of United States citizens and lawful permanent residents to obtain lawful permanent resident status in the same manner as spouses of citizens and lawful permanent residents and to penalize immigration fraud in connection with permanent partnerships.
Sponsor: Rep Nadler, Jerrold [NY-8] (introduced 5/8/2007) Cosponsors (118)
Related Bills: S.1328
Latest Major Action: 6/25/2007 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law.
COSPONSORS(118), ALPHABETICAL [followed by Cosponsors withdrawn]: (Sort: by date)
| Rep Abercrombie, Neil [HI-1] – 5/8/2007 | Rep Ackerman, Gary L. [NY-5] – 5/8/2007 |
| Rep Allen, Thomas H. [ME-1] – 5/8/2007 | Rep Andrews, Robert E. [NJ-1] – 9/23/2008 |
| Rep Baca, Joe [CA-43] – 9/17/2008 | Rep Baird, Brian [WA-3] – 5/10/2007 |
| Rep Baldwin, Tammy [WI-2] – 5/8/2007 | Rep Becerra, Xavier [CA-31] – 5/8/2007 |
| Rep Berkley, Shelley [NV-1] – 5/8/2007 | Rep Berman, Howard L. [CA-28] – 5/8/2007 |
| Rep Bishop, Timothy H. [NY-1] – 5/8/2008 | Rep Blumenauer, Earl [OR-3] – 2/7/2008 |
| Rep Brown, Corrine [FL-3] – 9/17/2008 | Rep Capps, Lois [CA-23] – 5/8/2007 |
| Rep Capuano, Michael E. [MA-8] – 5/8/2007 | Rep Castor, Kathy [FL-11] – 9/17/2008 |
| Rep Clarke, Yvette D. [NY-11] – 5/8/2007 | Rep Clay, Wm. Lacy [MO-1] – 5/8/2007 |
| Rep Clyburn, James E. [SC-6] – 9/18/2008 | Rep Conyers, John, Jr. [MI-14] – 5/8/2007 |
| Rep Courtney, Joe [CT-2] – 9/15/2008 | Rep Crowley, Joseph [NY-7] – 5/8/2007 |
| Rep Cummings, Elijah E. [MD-7] – 5/8/2007 | Rep Davis, Danny K. [IL-7] – 7/12/2007 |
| Rep Davis, Susan A. [CA-53] – 5/8/2007 | Rep DeFazio, Peter A. [OR-4] – 9/9/2008 |
| Rep DeGette, Diana [CO-1] – 5/8/2007 | Rep Delahunt, William D. [MA-10] – 5/8/2007 |
| Rep DeLauro, Rosa L. [CT-3] – 9/11/2008 | Rep Doyle, Michael F. [PA-14] – 5/8/2007 |
| Rep Ellison, Keith [MN-5] – 5/8/2007 | Rep Emanuel, Rahm [IL-5] – 9/11/2008 |
| Rep Engel, Eliot L. [NY-17] – 5/8/2007 | Rep Eshoo, Anna G. [CA-14] – 5/8/2007 |
| Rep Farr, Sam [CA-17] – 5/8/2007 | Rep Fattah, Chaka [PA-2] – 5/8/2007 |
| Rep Filner, Bob [CA-51] – 5/8/2007 | Rep Frank, Barney [MA-4] – 5/8/2007 |
| Rep Green, Al [TX-9] – 4/29/2008 | Rep Grijalva, Raul M. [AZ-7] – 5/8/2007 |
| Rep Gutierrez, Luis V. [IL-4] – 5/8/2007 | Rep Hare, Phil [IL-17] – 9/11/2008 |
| Rep Harman, Jane [CA-36] – 2/12 | Rep Hastings, Alcee L. [FL-23] – 5/9/2007 |
| Rep Hinchey, Maurice D. [NY-22] – 5/8/2007 | Rep Hirono, Mazie K. [HI-2] – 5/8/2007 |
| Rep Holt, Rush D. [NJ-12] – 5/9/2007 | Rep Honda, Michael M. [CA-15] – 5/8/2007 |
| Rep Inslee, Jay [WA-1] – 5/8/2007 | Rep Israel, Steve [NY-2] – 5/8/2008 |
| Rep Jackson, Jesse L., Jr. [IL-2] – 5/8/2007 | Rep Jackson-Lee, Sheila [TX-18] – 7/11/2007 |
| Rep Johnson, Eddie Bernice [TX-30] – 9/17/2008 | Rep Johnson, Henry C. “Hank,” Jr. [GA-4] – 7/26/2007 |
| Rep Kennedy, Patrick J. [RI-1] – 5/8/2007 | Rep Kucinich, Dennis J. [OH-10] – 5/8/2007 |
| Rep Langevin, James R. [RI-2] – 5/8/2007 | Rep Lantos, Tom [CA-12] – 5/8/2007 |
| Rep Larson, John B. [CT-1] – 5/17/2007 | Rep Lee, Barbara [CA-9] – 5/8/2007 |
| Rep Levin, Sander M. [MI-12] – 5/7/2008 | Rep Lewis, John [GA-5] – 5/8/2007 |
| Rep Lowey, Nita M. [NY-18] – 5/16/2007 | Rep Maloney, Carolyn B. [NY-14] – 5/8/2007 |
| Rep Markey, Edward J. [MA-7] – 5/8/2007 | Rep Matsui, Doris O. [CA-5] – 5/8/2007 |
| Rep McCarthy, Carolyn [NY-4] – 9/4/2007 | Rep McCollum, Betty [MN-4] – 2/25/2008 |
| Rep McDermott, Jim [WA-7] – 5/8/2007 | Rep McGovern, James P. [MA-3] – 5/8/2007 |
| Rep McNulty, Michael R. [NY-21] – 5/8/2007 | Rep Meehan, Martin T. [MA-5] – 5/8/2007 |
| Rep Meek, Kendrick B. [FL-17] – 9/26/2007 | Rep Michaud, Michael H. [ME-2] – 7/31/2007 |
| Rep Miller, Brad [NC-13] – 9/17/2008 | Rep Miller, George [CA-7] – 5/8/2007 |
| Rep Moore, Dennis [KS-3] – 9/15/2008 | Rep Moore, Gwen [WI-4] – 9/23/2008 |
| Rep Moran, James P. [VA-8] – 5/8/2007 | Rep Napolitano, Grace F. [CA-38] – 5/8/2007 |
| Rep Neal, Richard E. [MA-2] – 5/8/2007 | Rep Norton, Eleanor Holmes [DC] – 5/8/2007 |
| Rep Olver, John W. [MA-1] – 5/8/2007 | Rep Pallone, Frank, Jr. [NJ-6] – 5/8/2007 |
| Rep Pascrell, Bill, Jr. [NJ-8] – 5/7/2008 | Rep Pastor, Ed [AZ-4] – 5/16/2007 |
| Rep Payne, Donald M. [NJ-10] – 5/8/2007 | Rep Richardson, Laura [CA-37] – 2/28/2008 |
| Rep Rothman, Steven R. [NJ-9] – 5/8/2007 | Rep Roybal-Allard, Lucille [CA-34] – 7/30/2008 |
| Rep Rush, Bobby L. [IL-1] – 9/15/2008 | Rep Sanchez, Linda T. [CA-39] – 5/8/2007 |
| Rep Schakowsky, Janice D. [IL-9] – 5/8/2007 | Rep Schiff, Adam B. [CA-29] – 5/8/2007 |
| Rep Schwartz, Allyson Y. [PA-13] – 5/7/2008 | Rep Scott, Robert C. “Bobby” [VA-3] – 9/11/2008 |
| Rep Serrano, Jose E. [NY-16] – 5/8/2007 | Rep Shays, Christopher [CT-4] – 5/8/2007 |
| Rep Sherman, Brad [CA-27] – 9/4/2007 | Rep Sires, Albio [NJ-13] – 5/16/2007 |
| Rep Smith, Adam [WA-9] – 5/24/2007 | Rep Solis, Hilda L. [CA-32] – 5/8/2007 |
| Rep Speier, Jackie [CA-12] – 9/15/2008 | Rep Stark, Fortney Pete [CA-13] – 5/8/2007 |
| Rep Tauscher, Ellen O. [CA-10] – 5/21/2007 | Rep Tierney, John F. [MA-6] – 5/8/2007 |
| Rep Towns, Edolphus [NY-10] – 5/9/2007 | Rep Tsongas, Niki [MA-5] – 4/10/2008 |
| Rep Udall, Mark [CO-2] – 9/17/2008 | Rep Velazquez, Nydia M. [NY-12] – 5/22/2008 |
| Rep Wasserman Schultz, Debbie [FL-20] – 5/8/2007 | Rep Watson, Diane E. [CA-33] – 7/24/2007 |
| Rep Waxman, Henry A. [CA-30] – 5/8/2007 | Rep Weiner, Anthony D. [NY-9] – 5/8/2007 |
| Rep Welch, Peter [VT] – 6/18/2007 | Rep Wexler, Robert [FL-19] – 5/8/2007 |
| Rep Woolsey, Lynn C. [CA-6] – 5/8/2007 | Rep Wu, David [OR-1] – 5/8/2007 |
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NOT YET ENACTED? WAKE UP AMERICA its time
“OPINION: Please help bring me home
Cruel U.S. laws have forced thousands of gay binational couples to live abroad. It’s time to pass the Uniting American Families Act.
I’d like to come home to live in America. No, let me be clearer. I’d like to be able to live in America. But I cannot. Even though I am a native-born U.S. citizen who lived in America until I was 42 years old, I have been exiled by U.S. law. I am a “love exile.” Because I am …” http://www.washblade.com/2006/5-11/view/columns/bragar.cfm
– ROBERT BRAGA May 11, 2006
http://www.loveexiles.org/index.html
UPDATE: …Senator Maria Cantwell finally signed on to co-sponsor Senator Patrick Leahy’s Uniting American Families Act. The only remaining question here is: “What took you so long?”
Posted by Gay Curmudgeon at 11:02 AM at
http://gaycurmudgeon.blogspot.com/2008/03/why-is-senator-cantwell-mia-on-uafa.html
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