Gay U.S. citizens seek to claim residency for foreign spouses
By Alfonso Chardy and Steve Rothaus
Juan Carlos Galán and Greg Nardi of Miami Beach live together as a family and would like to get married.
Then Nardi, a U.S. citizen, would claim Galán as a relative and help the Panama-born computer expert get a green card.
For now, though, these are just dreams - unless President Barack Obama can convince Congress to pass immigration reform.
Rep. Luis Gutierrez, D-Ill., who last December introduced the first immigration reform bill of the current congressional session, announced in May that he intends to add provisions that would include same-sex couples and their families.
Gutierrez plans to incorporate into his bill language from the Uniting American Families Act, offered by Rep. Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., a longtime proponent of the measure.
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