Gay green card petition authorization is US very first - legal representative

Gay green card petition authorization is US very first - legal representative

The approval is viewed as proof people visa policies promptly adjusting to last week's historical Supreme Court judgment on same-sex marital relationship.

Traian Popov, that joined Julian Marsh in New York, may currently make an application for migration benefits and a long-term citizen visa.

Recently the High court tossed out a law prohibiting gay couples from getting advantages readily available to various other couples.

The justices ruled that the 1996 Protection of Marital relationship Act discriminated against same-sex couples.

Mr Marsh as well as Mr Popov were educated on Friday by Citizenship as well as Migration Solutions that their permit petition had actually been accepted, two days after the landmark ruling.

Mr Popov is currently able to stay in the US on a student visa, as he is signed up in university. However he would certainly have had to leave the nation when he finished.

The Division of Homeland Security can not validate that their case was the very first of its kind to be accepted.

Mr Marsh stated it is still bothering that their union is not identified in Florida.

\" They make you really feel more and more like a second-class resident, as well as they don't desire you,\" he told the Associated Press information firm.

Mr Marsh clarified that before last week's Supreme Court ruling, he and also his spouse had actually begun to think about various other alternatives that would certainly allow them to remain with each other, but they wanted to keep staying in Fort Lauderdale.

\" We would like our marital relationship to be identified even in a state where it wasn't executed,\" Mr Marsh included.

There are about 36,000 same-sex pairs in the United States in which one partner is not a person, according to the non-profit migration group Migration Equality.

Prior to last week's judgments, under the Protection of Marriage Act legitimately married same-sex pairs were rejected federal benefits readily available to opposite-sex pairs.

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