Posted on 10/01/2018 8:27:42 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
The Trump administration has begun denying visas to some unmarried, same-sex partners of foreign diplomats and employees of the United Nations, Foreign Policy reported on Monday.
The administration is requiring couples already in the United States to show proof that they’ve married by Dec. 31, 2018 or to leave the country within 30 days.
The outlet noted that this new policy means at least 10 unmarried U.N. employees currently in the country will have to get married in order for their partners’ visas to be extended.
Since the 2015 Supreme Court decision legalizing same-sex marriage, U.S. policy has dictated that diplomatic visas are only extended to married spouses.
The U.S mission to the U.N. reportedly notified couples of the decision in July and it took effect on Monday, according to the report.
“Same-sex spouses of U.S. diplomats now enjoy the same rights and benefits as opposite-sex spouses,” reads the announcement obtained by Foreign Policy. “Consistent with [State] Department policy, partners accompanying members of permanent missions or seeking to join the same must generally be married in order to be eligible” for a diplomatic visa.
Samantha Power, the former U.S. ambassador to the UN, blasted the move as “needlessly cruel and bigoted” on Friday.
“But only 12% of UN member states allow same-sex marriage,” Power noted.
Alfonso Nam, the president of UN Globe, a UN LGBTI staff advocacy organization, told Foreign Policy that same-sex couples are at risk of prosecution if they return to a country that criminalizes homosexuality or has not legalized same-sex marriages.
Diplomats would be eligible for “limited exceptions” under the Trump administration’s policy if they can prove they are from countries that outlaw same-sex partners, according to Foreign Policy.
That exception, however, reportedly does not extend to U.N. officials.
“With this change, the State Department is enforcing parity in the way they recognize opposite-sex partnerships and same-sex partnerships,” UN Globe said in a statement. “It is an unfortunate change in rules, since same-sex couples, unlike opposite-sex couples, have limited choices when it comes to marriage.”
What’s the name they use for gay honeypots ?
If their countries don’t permit gay marriage from their representatives, how can we?
Merciful Maude. YEA, YEA, YEA!!!
Pushes the buttons of the left. Good enough for me.
Once homosexual marriage is overturned, kick out the “spouses” too.
Golan Cipel?
So?
If same-sex marriage is legal, then let's stop with the "domestic partner" nonsense.
Trump knows that this will help our trade deficit as foreigner gay UN dips are forced to hook up with and pay American gays for sex.
Trump’s appointed Ambassador to Germany, Richard Grenell, is gay and lives with his long time partner. I do not condone his lifestyle, but don’t think it precludes him from this particular role. He is doing a great job promoting Trump’s ‘America First’ agenda in Europe.
Just last week German company Volkswagen agreed to leave Iran, Grenell works on little things like that but also greater matters.
Does this mean that Michelle has to send Barack back to Kenya?
Sodomites.
What’s the name they use for gay honeypots ?
Here’s the real reason:
Diplomats are spies. You can’t have spies running in and out of the country all the time, bringing in and out boy/girlfriend of the week (who is a specialty operative, assassin, spook, etc.).
Maybe I’m reading this wrong, but I don’t see what anyone being gay has to do with this policy. If I am a non-gay male diplomat and I bring my live-in girlfriend with me to the US diplomatic post, she will not qualify for a visa as a partner of a diplomat unless she is married to me. The regulation only requires that the partner be a spouse, and whether it is a same sex marriage or not is irrelevant.
Golan Cipel?
“I am a gay American”
American?
The opposite side of that is we are paying for the “partner” to live and work in Germany. The “partner” probably has a cushy job in the embassy, goes to all the embassy and national parties as the “partner” of the Ambassador, and basically rubs his status in the face of all the employees in the embassy. Especially the LESs (locally employed staff) who get tasked by the Ambassador’s “partner” to do things they aren’t paid to do. I have worked in an embassy and know the stuff the “partner” can get away with.
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