The Obama administration has issued written guidelines to immigration officials whose job it is to determine potential deportation cases regarding same-sex relationships.
The guidelines indicate three criteria, the Washington Blade‘s Chris Johnson reports:
Same-sex relationships that rise to the level of “family relationships” are long-term, same-sex relationships in which the individuals:
• are each other’s sole domestic partner and intend to remain so indefinitely;
• are not in a marital or other domestic relationship with anyone else; and typically maintain a common residence
• and share financial obligations and assets.
(via Towleroad)