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Immigration Equality collaborated with Human Rights Watch to research, write, and publish Family, Unvalued: The Discrimination, Denial, and the Fate of Binational Same-Sex Couples Under U.S. Law. 

Read Family, Unvalued.

In this report, couples tell stories of abuse by immigration officials and even deportation.  They describe the devastating impact not only on their partnerships but on their careers, homes, children, livelihoods, and lives.

Delays, bureaucracy, inconsistency, and injustice make the U.S. immigration system a nightmare for millions.  Debate over that system is intensifying.  Family, Unvalued shows how its failures affect, and sometimes destroy, families which prejudice has deprived of any legal protection.  This report reveals how today's discrimination grows from a long history of anti-immigrant campaigns.  Most of all, Family, Unvalued lets the reader hear the sometimes horrifying, always enlightening testimony of lesbian and gay families: people simply seeking to build a better future...together. 

Immigration Equality and Human Rights Watch would like to thank the following for making this publication possible:

The Evelyn and Walter Haas Jr., Fund, and
Alvin H. Baum
The Arcus Foundation
The David Bohnett Foundation
The David Geffen Foundation
The Ford Foundation
The Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation
The Gill Foundation
Henry van Ameringen
James C. Hormel and Timothy Wu
The Open Society Institute
The Paul Rapoport Foundation
The Pomegranate Foundation
Ann B. Snitow
Jeanne and Joseph Sullivan
The Tides Foundation
Reid Williams