The
State Department this week revoked its preferential visa policy for
same-sex partners of foreign staff working at the United Nations and
other diplomatic missions in the United States. This means same-sex
couples will need to marry in order to remain in the country together ―
an option that still doesn’t exist in most countries.
Effective Oct. 1, “U.S. Embassies and Consulates will adjudicate visa applications that are based on a same-sex marriage in the same way that we adjudicate applications for opposite gender spouses,” the State Department said on its website.
Diplomats with same-sex partners will have until the end of December to get married, or their partners will be sent home in January. Same-sex marriage is only legal in a handful of countries worldwide.
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Source: The Huffington Post
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