Immigration

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  Same-sex Couples and Immigration in the United States

  Gary J. Gates and Craig Konnoth
  November 2011
  

  There are an estimated 28,500 binational same-sex couples and nearly 11,500 same-sex couples in which neither partner is a U.S. citizen. Press releases in both English and Spanish within.

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  Separate and Not Equal: Bi-National Same–Sex Couples

  M.V. Lee Badgett, Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 2011, vol. 36 No. 4
  November 2011
  

  In an article published recently in Signs, Williams Institute Research Director Lee Badgett discusses her research on bi-national same-sex couples living in the Netherlands.

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• Testimony submitted to the United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary “The Uniting American Families Act: Addressing Inequality in Federal Immigration Law”

  By Gary J. Gates
  June 3, 2009
  

  Census 2000 data identified nearly 36,000 same-sex bi-national couples where one partner was a U.S. citizen. This amounts to 1.3% of all such bi-national couples in the U.S.

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• Bi-National Same-Sex Unmarried Partners in Census 2000: A Demographic Portrait

  By Gary J. Gates
  October 27, 2005
  

  While current United States immigration policy is based primarily on family reunification, it does not provide any rights for unmarried partners of citizens.

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