A Final Request

The Advocate should reseach its articles better. The reason why this claim for asylum failed is because it was without merit. I am a gay rights activist and support that decision.

If anyone thinks, looking at so called Roi, this is a love match- they need a brain transplant. Trailer trash trying to bilk the system. Dying wish? Funny, you have been playing that violin for awhile and now that a visitor's visa has been arranged you have suddenly decided not to kick the bucket right away! Employer work visas are temp. My advice to the other so called bi nationals wriitng here: take a simple love test- stop the gifts, move to the third world and see how long your honey wants you! We don't need this trash hiring lawyers and costing us. Go home. Your claim that the Philppines is more anti gay than Mississippi is a lie.

This case is based upon lie after lie. It makes a mockery of our struggle. "Tricks for green cards" would be a better title. Losers who hate themselves and their countries. They can destroy the first (and just about have) but not the second if I can help it. Their is no reason why this person can't live in the Philippines. Of course, when old smokey "Roi" has nothing more to offer, he will vanish. Please seek treatment there, not at our expense.

I and my partner are going through this too and its killing me inside. I dont cry very often if ever, but reading this story I am seeing our future. I m Texan and he is Mexican and he keeps hiring lawyers to re file papers to keep him here, but it isnt working anymore and he hasnt been home in years and he is slowly giving up. I dont know what to do I dont have 500k to by his citizen ship, and he doesnt want to stay in limbo never knowing if one day he wakes up and its his last here. I want to go with him, but Mexico is a mess and I am the poster child for white American. Even if I didnt have to face the violence I cant speak Spanish well so I know I d be a burden logically. I dont know what to do. He is my first and only and I cant live without him hes perfect, but it looks like the US wont let me live with him. Is there anything I can do? He pays taxes, he runs a business hes a better American than most I know.

My partner and I have been dealing with this situation for almost 10 years. It is emotionally draining and soul killing. I have lost all faith in the Dems. With both house of congress, a 'fierce advocate' in the WH, and over 100 co-sponsors, the UAFA bill is no closer to passing then it was 10 years ago. NO ONE should have to choose between the man or woman they love, and the country they love. I hope some day soon, the thousands of binationals(some very afraid to speak out) living in the US are treated equally under the law.

My partner and I have been dealing with this situation for almost 10 years. It is emotionally draining and soul killing. I have lost all faith in the Dems. With both house of congress, a 'fierce advocate' in the WH, and over 100 co-sponsors, the UAFA bill is no closer to passing then it was 10 years ago. NO ONE should have to choose between the man or woman they love, and the country they love. I hope some day soon, the thousands of binationals(some very afraid to speak out) living in the US are treated equally under the law.

And how many LGBT persons who have commented on this article are NOT part of a bi-national couple? How many are even reading this story? Show of hands? That's what I thought and that is why we will once again be thrown under the bus.

This is a horrible story but it is also a common story of the hardships bi-national couples face. Our government doesn't seem to care no matter how many letters, calls, and emails we send, our issue remains almost invisable even to many people in the LGBT community. Separation is one of the realities or exile is the other which is the situation for my partner (of 15 yrs) and I. Our life has been turned upside down and basically destroyed. We left the US 4 years ago leaving behind our home, friends, career, and way of life. Try getting a job in a foreign country where you do not speak the language, my foreign born partner is the bilingual one. Our lifestyle went from middle class to just basic survival.

this story made me involuntarily tear up. it galls me to think that loving gay couples like this are kept separate and 2nd class because disgusting christian groups have hijacked the promise in the US Constitution that all people are created equal for their own beliefs and prejudices.

I know how these two guys feel. It is so sad when your partner lives in a different country and the law won't allow you to be there with them. It must be doubly hard when you partner is also ill. My partner and I are in a binational relationship. We have been in this relationship for ten years and three months now. But we have only been able to live together for 17 months. Why won't they change the immigration law for people like us. I live in Tasmania, Australia and my partner lives in Tacoma Washington.