Comments on: Obama, same-sex partners and US immigration

By: shane

shane — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 16:47:10 +0000

i’m from thailand. my gf for 3 years is an american. i can’t live with her in the u.s coz i can’t get a visa and she can’t petition me. i miss her so much.. i haven’t seen her for a year now.she’s alone taking care of her 4 year old daughter. i love them both. i’m afraid to lose them..we talked everyday in the fone and i see her on the webcam 24/7..but still its not enough..i wanna be with her. spend the rest of my life with her and her daughter. im hoping that uafa will be passed. hope the congress will listen and understand our situation.

By: Gabi

Gabi — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 14:19:15 +0000

I am a German, living in the Netherlands and in love with an American woman. We can’t live together in the USA because of this stupid regulation.

Immigration laws just haven’t caught up with the rules of globalization. 30 years ago we would probably never have met. Each of us would have been living in their little local shell.

Nowadays we can connect over the interwebs with people from all over the globe. We can have our refrigerators made in China, our cars made in Japan and our sneakers stitched in the Philippines, and have all of them shipped to our homes. We can invest our money in Asian growth funds or Icelandic banks, we can send long-distance rockets to Afghanistan and Iraq who never caused us any harm, just because we disagree with their leaders and because we’re after their resources, we can lie on the beach in exotic countries – but we’re not supposed to fall in love with someone from another continent and expect to be able to live with them just like that. It’s stupid and anything but contemporary.

We’re planning for a future in Canada now (because English is a language we are both able to speak). She will have to put her house on the market, quit her job, lose her social network and move away from her family thousands of miles.

Maybe 20 years from now we will tell our war story to the young generation of disbelieving cosmopolitans who will then have the freedom to freely choose where they live and work. Right now, it just sucks.

By: Gareth

Gareth — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 17:27:17 +0000

Well FREEDOM is the biggest load of hog wash. There is nothing you can do about it. Where ever you vote the system will never change. It is best to accept it and roll with it.

Some would say love is over rated!

By: Edu

Edu — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 20:08:40 +0000

is there anything we can do to put pressure on US politics?
we are a binational couple living in England thanks to my status as a European Union citizen. I am so proud of Europe and happy to be able to live my life as a human being with all my rights. It breaks my heart to see my american husband (since married in Spain, but recognized in England) torn between his love towards me and missing his family.
I feel so much anger towards those who feel they have the right to say who we can love or where we can live.

By: Gareth

Gareth — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 21:09:59 +0000

Sound like a wonderful thing. It happens all the time and never fails to make me smile. I love a great romantic story. We can help you – call us:)

By: Erin

Erin — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 19:13:18 +0000

I am a Bahamian citizen and my partner of four years is an American. I came to the US for college having no intent on staying here after graduation, but I met her and we fell in love. Now, if I want to maintain our beautiful relationship without being an ocean a part, I am forced to come and go every six months on a tourist visa. This is an unsure and dangerous practice to continue because at any time I could be reprimanded and banned from the country if I am thought to be living here. But, I am in love and want to spend the rest of my life with this woman so it is a sacrifice I feel I HAVE to make. However, it is extremely difficult since, coming and going every 6 mths makes having a job or any type of financial stability almost impossible for me. I am college educated but broke and jobless due to this miserable situation we are in. I have basically given up my dreams just because I love another person who happens to be a female and also happens to be American. How is it fair that just because one of us does not have a penis, we can’t be married and be happy together without one of us having to leave every few months?It is coming up on the end of my six months here very soon (in a few weeks). We have both already started the crying spells because leaving each other is always so difficult. I am desperate for some type of reform SOON. We want to have a life together and a family one day but that cannot happen until we are both legally able to be married and have that marriage recognized on the federal level so that I can gain citizenship. We don’t want to hurt anyone, we just want the freedom to love.

By: Gareth

Gareth — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 19:16:23 +0000

Great, good for you. The USA is a great place.

By: G900

G900 — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 22:10:01 +0000

I have a partner who is in currently in the US because she was petitioned by her parents. She will soon be a US citizen and we’re not sure where that would lead our serious relationship to since I’m in the Philippines. We’re very much in love and have worked things out through a long distance relationship but would really want to live together. We’re hoping together with a lot of others more that this is finally legalized.

By: Betty

Betty — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 17:18:34 +0000

I have been in a committed relationship for 7 years with a British citizen. We got married last year in the short period when it was legal to do so in California. I want to come home to America and she wants to come with me. But the UK will have us and America won’t, so we are here. Still waiting.

By: deana clapp

deana clapp — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 18:38:22 +0000

I thought i was American, but I am almost too ashamed to even use that title now. It’s disgusting; it’s a disgrace; and it’s a horrible injustice. it’s not better than what women in Saudi Arabia face. it undermines the very foundations of this “great nation” and disregards fundamental principles of humanity. telling anyone who they can or cannot love is an obvious abomination to the spirit of nature by which we are all bound. it attacks the very heart of existence and seeks to rule it – which is impossible, without repercussions, and simply inappropriate.
no doubt every country,person, or people have been the cause of terrible injustices throughout history, but the point is progression and evolution – to change, and hopefully, get better over time. why do we reject this logical path?
without regard to any organized religion, or any human-created belief system, this is wrong by ignoring nature its course and by ignoring the universal pillar of reason