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Friday, October 07, 2011

Bi-National Gay Couple Facing Separation By Deportation

A Philadelphia couple that got married in D.C. in June is facing separation Friday, when Anton Tanumihardja is scheduled to be deported.

Tanumihardja can’t be sponsored for residency because that option doesn’t exist for same-sex couples, NBCPhiladelphia.com reported.

Tanumihardja came to the U.S. from Indonesia on a tourist visa in 2002 and later had his application for political asylum denied. He was scheduled to leave his partner, Brian Andersen, and this country in February but was granted a temporary reprieve.

“He is a gay man who has had the opportunity to live openly as a gay man in Philadelphia. And now he's going back to live where in order to survive, you cannot be open," Lavi Soloway, the couple’s attorney, told CNN in February.

Eight months later, Tanumihardja’s time is up again.

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

Awesome!

Anonymous said...

Fantastic!

Anonymous said...

The democrats are trying to ride they gay momentum to install all their want's to destroy the country.

Anonymous said...

muslims over there will beat that gay crap right out of him.

Anonymous said...

The comments made up to this point are ignorant. Why do you care who someone loves?

Anonymous said...

4:27- You spell wants with an apostrophe and "they gay momentum?" Really?! That says a lot about your intelligence.