Immigration Equality

Child Organization: Immigration Equality Action Fund

Immigration Equality is an American advocacy organization working for equal rights for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, (LGBT) and HIV-positive individuals under the policies of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (formerly the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service). Founded in 1994 as the Lesbian and Gay Immigration Rights Task Force, the group is headquartered in New York with chapters in thirteen other U.S. cities. Immigration Equality is the only national LGBT immigration organization in the United States and according to Andrew Sullivan they do "the lion's share of work in advocating for equal treatment for gay spouses and HIV-positive immigrants." The group led the effort to change the HIV travel and immigration ban, a cause championed by Senator John Kerry (D-MA) in the Senate, and signed into law by then U.S. President George Bush. It is unclear whether applicants will still have to declare their HIV status. In August 2007, Congressperson Barbara Lee of California introduced House Resolution 3337, the HIV Nondiscrimination in Travel and Immigration Act of 2007. This bill would have allow travelers and immigrants entry to the U.S. without disclosing their HIV status, it failed to become law.

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Campaign Finance

$29,000 Given
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  • contributions under $200 are not reported, and so are not included in totals.
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  • contributions are matched based on organization and recipient name reported within each election cycle. Contributions using an incorrect or non-standard version of the name may be missed.
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covers through Q3 2012

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View all campaign finance data for Immigration Equality Sources: OpenSecrets.org

Lobbying

$1,528,612 Spent
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covers roughly through Q3, 2012

Lobbying on Behalf of Immigration Equality

View all lobbying data for Immigration Equality Sources: Lobbyist Registration Tracker OpenSecrets.org

Regulations

Mentioned in 9 dockets; Submitted to 3 dockets
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All data is based on documents downloaded from Regulations.gov. The first table shows mentions: all documents that include the name of the company anywhere in the document or document metadata. The second table shows submissions: all documents where the submitter metadata included the company name. Each table shows the top 10 dockets, ranked by number of occurrences.

Matches are based on a search for the company name. Variations in the company name, such as acronyms, nicknames or alternate names may cause documents to be missed. The mention of a company name in a document may be incidental and does not necessarily indicate that the company has any relevance to the document. Company names that are common English words may erroneously match with text that is not referring to the company.

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Regulations and public comments can be downloaded in bulk here.

updated daily from Regulations.gov by way of Docket Wrench

The tables show occurrences of "Immigration Equality" in public comments on proposed federal regulations.