{"id":1051,"date":"2013-05-15T15:43:32","date_gmt":"2013-05-15T21:43:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/lgbtforce\/?p=1051"},"modified":"2013-05-15T15:43:32","modified_gmt":"2013-05-15T21:43:32","slug":"will-the-immigration-bill-help-same-sex-bi-national-couples","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/lgbtcommittee\/?p=1051","title":{"rendered":"Will the Immigration Bill Help Same-Sex Bi-National Couples?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Congress is putting together immigration reform, and amendments have been proposed to include the provision for LGBT foreign-born partners of US citizens to apply for green card status. Will it work? Senator Schumer from New York&#8217;s not sure, and it &#8220;keeps him up at night, even though he&#8217;s a good sleeper.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Read the full article: <a href=\"http:\/\/firstread.nbcnews.com\/_news\/2013\/05\/09\/18151028-schumer-i-worry-about-resolving-lgbt-issues-in-immigration-bill\">Schumer: \u2018I worry\u2019 about resolving LGBT issues in immigration bill<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Heather for the article!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congress is putting together immigration reform, and amendments have been proposed to include the provision for LGBT foreign-born partners of US citizens to apply for green card status. Will it work? Senator Schumer from New York&#8217;s not sure, and it &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/lgbtcommittee\/?p=1051\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[199,1104],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lgbt-issues","category-us-wrap-up"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/lgbtcommittee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/lgbtcommittee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/lgbtcommittee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/lgbtcommittee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/lgbtcommittee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1051"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/lgbtcommittee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1051\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1053,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/lgbtcommittee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1051\/revisions\/1053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/lgbtcommittee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/lgbtcommittee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/lgbtcommittee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}