10 Facts About Immigration Equality

Immigration Equality is a United States nonprofit organization founded in 1994.

Immigration Equality represents LGBTQ and HIV-positive immigrants seeking safety, fair treatment, and freedom in the United States.

Immigration Equality helps clients to win asylum or release from detention so they can live safely and freely in the United States.

Immigration Equality maintains a list of LGBTQ and HIV-competent private immigration attorneys to provide legal representation for those who contact them.

In September 2014, Immigration Equality rallied before the White House to call for immediate action after President Obama announced a delay on his executive action on immigration.

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Immigration Equality campaigned to lift the ban on travel and immigration into the U S on the part of those with HIV, which had been enacted in 1987 and strengthened in 1993.

In 2008, Immigration Equality opened their Washington, DC office, shortly after Congress repealed the HIV immigration and travel ban, fulfilling one of the organization's founding objectives.

In October 2016, Immigration Equality welcomed their new executive director Aaron C Morris.

In May 2015, Immigration Equality's website was selected for inclusion in the Library of Congress' historic collection of Internet materials related to public policy topics.

Immigration Equality has been lobbying for the act since 2000 which would allow "same-sex 'permanent partners' to present documents – joint tax filings, property records, bank accounts – to prove their relationship and petition for a green card" the same as heterosexual couples are able to do.