Life In Perspective

Apr. 17, 2012 at 3:39pm with 36 notes

Reblogged from gcvsa

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Makes Major Policy Update

The U.S. Customs and Immigrations Service recently issued an official Policy Memorandum stating that USCIS will no longer require proof of sexual reassignment surgery to update an individual’s legal gender on all customs and immigration paperwork. Instead, USCIS will accept either an updated birth certificate, passport, or court order or a letter from any licensed physician stating that the individual has had “appropriate clinical treatment for gender transition”. Furthermore, the new USCIS policy explicitly states that USCIS will issue corrected documents for transgender people regardless of any state, local, or foreign requirements to the contrary.

The new USCIS policy also establishes specific guidelines for marriages in which a partner is transgender. Basically, USCIS will fully recognize any heterosexual marriage which was valid in the jurisdiction where it took place. USCIS will presume all marriages involving a transgender person to be valid unless the originating jurisdiction has a specific law or precedent to the contrary, including both heterosexual marriages performed after a legal change of gender and heterosexual marriages performed before a legal change of gender.

Yet another hugely important pro-transgender policy change by the Obama Administration which is going largely unheralded by the white-centric, cis-centric, marriage-obsessed LGb(t) movement. Obama has done more for us in less than four years than the entire LGb(t) nonprofit complex has done in its entire history.

Please note: ”USCIS will presume all marriages involving a transgender person to be valid unless the originating jurisdiction has a specific law or precedent to the contrary,” means that if marriage involving a transgender person is illegal in the originating jurisdiction, USCIS does not recognize the marriage as valid.