From advocate.com
In the latest victory for binational gay couples in the immigration system, officials in Hartford, Conn. moved earlier this week to drop deportation proceedings against Michael Thomas, a citizen of Trinidad and Tobago who married his American spouse, John Brandoli, in Massachusetts last year, according to Immigration Equality.
Immigration Equality spokesman Steve Ralls said Friday that his organization had brought the case to the attention of Department of Homeland Security executive secretary Philip McNamara, who was recently appointed to the role of LGBT liaison in an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) working group tasked with reviewing the nation’s 300,000 pending deportation cases. (Thomas and Brandoli have a private immigration attorney, while Immigration Equality has consulted on the case in addition to providing media and legislative outreach.)
The closure of Thomas’s case is the second known positive result for a gay binational couple in a removal situation since the ICE deportation working group began its review on November 17, according to Immigration Equality.
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