US Immigration Policy on Transgender Marriage

The Empty Closet reports (via QueerDay) that GenderPAC is protesting a recent policy announcement by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (CIS), a subset of the Office of Homeland Security. The policy will bar recognition of:

"any marriage in which either party has changed or plans to change their sex.

The policy would prevent foreign spouses from obtaining immigration rights in marriages — or engagements to be married — where one spouse is transgender and either one is an American citizen."

A memo approving the policy stated that although recognizing such marriages would be the most consistent approach, such an approach would be "politically controversial."