Action Alert: Invite your Representatives to Support the Uniting All Families Act

Rep. Jerrold Nadler plans to reintroduce the Uniting American Families Act on Feb. 13. This bill would benefit thousands of binational couples who are not legally able to sponsor their partners through traditional immigration policies through which marriage is a way to keep couples and families together.
You can make the bill a success by inviting your Representative to support the bill from Day One. Reintroducing the bill with as many cosponsors as possible will show powerful momentum for the rights of gay and lesbian binational couples!
Please call your Representative and ask them to be an original cosponsor of the Uniting American Families Act of 2009. (UAFT)
1. Find out who your U.S. House Representative is. Go to this site , enter your address, and you will be provided the name of your U.S. Representative.
2. Call the U.S. Capitol Switchboard at (202)224-3121 and ask to be connected to your U.S. Representative.
3. Speak with you representative’s staff:
Here is a sample request you can make:
I am calling to ask Representative ________________ to be an original cosponsor of the Uniting American Families Act of 2009. To cosponsor, he/she must contact Rep. Jerrold Nadler who is the lead sponsor. The U.S. government discriminates against binational couples who are not able to be married by not allowing them to sponsor their foreign-born life partners for immigration. Because of this, many couples face the terrible choice of separating from the personthey love or leaving the United States. As Americans, we should not have to choose between family and country. Please ask Rep. _________________ to cosponsor the Uniting American Families Act of 2009 by reaching out to Rep. Nadler before February 12.
To learn more about UAFT or other issues impacting LGBTQ immigrants and their families, visit this site.