Yesenia Acosta

In the last decade, the LGBT community has made strides in a multitude of areas, including marriage equality, anti-discrimination laws, and one often overlooked issue: immigration. Until the key provision of the Defense of Marriage Act was overturned in 2013 by the U.S. Supreme Court in the historic U.S. v. Windsor decision, U.S. citizens could not petition for green cards for their same-sex spouses. The immigration system only recognized straight couples, leaving LGBT foreign nationals with limited options to immigrate to the U.S. to be with their partners. Now, with the demise of DOMA and same-sex marriage legal throughout the […]