Support UAFA! No One Should Have To Choose Between a Partner and Their Home
Tips to help you write your letter:
– State why you are writing, who you are and why UAFA matters to you.
– Provide more detail. Tell your story from the heart and support it with the
necessary facts. Provide specific, rather than general, information about
how the unfair immigration laws affect you personally.
– Close by requesting the action you want taken: cosponsorship of UAFA.
Sample Letter:
I am your constituent, and I am writing to ask you to co-sponsor the Uniting American Families Act (UAFA), H.R. 1024/S. 424. I also urge you to press for UAFA to be included in Comprehensive Immigration Reform legislation.
The UAFA would fulfill the pledge of family unification under current U.S. immigration policy by allowing gay and lesbian Americans to sponsor their life partners for immigration to the United States.
As you may be aware, under current law Americans are forced to make heartbreaking choices, including leaving the United States to be with the person they love.
I am sure you will agree that it is unfair to force any American into exile, separating them from their family, friends and community. The UAFA is the most effective way to keep loving couples together, and I hope that you will cosponsor this bill.
If Comprehensive Immigration Reform legislation should move in this Congress, please press for UAFA – and thus our families – to be included in it. Comprehensive Immigration Reform will not be comprehensive unless all families are part of it – including gay and lesbian families.
Please reply to let me know that you have co-sponsored the UAFA, and if not, why not. Thank you for your time on this important matter.
Please visit http://www.immigrationequality.org for more information.
