Out4Immigration is an all-volunteer grassroots organization.  Currently, Americans in same-gender relationships with foreign partners have no right to sponsor those partners for legal residency in the US.  In this letter campaign we have been writing representatives in Congress and the Senate to ask them to support equal immigration rights for Same-sex binational couples, to become a cosponsor of the Uniting American Families Act (UAFA), and to support Comprehensive Immigration Reform which is inclusive of LGBT families.

This is Week 81 of Out4Immigration’s weekly letter writing campaign.  It is our first petition since the election, and here as in coming weeks we will be reaching out to all of our supporters from this Congress.   Facing the lame duck session, this petition serves not only as a thank you to the members of Congress who have supported the UAFA and are leaving Congress due to the results of the election, or because of retirement; it is also to encourage those returning supporters of the 111th Congress to continue demonstrating leadership on this issue in the impending 112th.  We intend to promote this as our primary petition throughout the duration of the lame duck session, targeting as many lawmakers each week as we can.

It is remarkable that in the 111th Congress we were able to encourage over a quarter of our national elected representatives in Washington to cosponsor the UAFA.  Many of these members have been real champions for equality, and we want to applaud their leadership.  It is also worth noting that of the Democratic losses in Congress in this recent election, relatively few UAFA supporters were among them.  In the coming weeks, we will be reminding returning members of Congress, as well as new ones, that many Americans yearn to see equality for all, that supporting our families not only makes good political sense but is the right thing to do, and to ask them to cosponsor this bill.

We encourage you to take part in this campaign by using one of four options:

(1) The easiest one.   By clicking through and adding your name to this page, you will send letters to all of the lawmakers being targeted in this petition.  You can also provide the link to your friends and family to take action too!;

(2) Contact any or all of the elected representatives here with your own letter, your own story; or

(3) Creating a booklet telling your story. See http://tinyurl.com/o4i-toolkit1 for more info on this option.

(4) Check out other actions on our action page and sign the other week's action too to urge the other members of Congress to sponsor and support the passage of Uniting American Families Act, or visit Out4immigration's website​, O4I's Facebook page or the O4I blog.  If you use Twitter, you can also follow O4I that way.

Additionally, don’t hesitate to call our recent cosponsors and thank them for their support.  Let’s hit our target of 500 signers with this petition.  Can each of you who sign get a few of your friends to do so as well?  Please share this widely, and thank you for taking action!!!