Obama Admin - Deny same-sex married Green Card apps
The “hold” on same-sex married bi-national couples’ green card applications — celebrated by immigration and LGBT advocates — is over, according to the spokesman for the agency that processes those requests.
“The guidance we were awaiting … was received last night, so the hold is over, so we’re back to adjudicating cases as we always have,” U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services press secretary Christopher Bentley told Metro Weekly this morning.
The agency will continue to “enforce the law,” he says, which means that the Defense of Marriage Act — which prohibits the government from recognizing same-sex marriages — prevents those green card applications from being approved.
Asked if that means applications of same-sex bi-national couples would continue to be denied now as they had in the past, Bentley said, “Correct, based on the enforcement of DOMA.”