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Brian Andersen, left and Anton Tanumihardja, photographed in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on Decemer 11, 2011, have been a couple for two years, and last year were married in the District of Columbia. Yet Tanumihardja, who was born in Indonesia and has been in the U.S. legally for nearly two decades, faced deportation last year because federal law doesn't grant same-sex couples the same immigration rights as opposite-sex ones. Federal marriage and immigration policies keep thousands of gay and lesbian couples in limbo. (Curtis Tate/MCT)
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Tens of thousands of same-sex couples in the United States live under the threat of separation because federal law prohibits immigration authorities from treating them the same as married opposite-sex couples. Joy Hayes and Lujza Nehrebeczky were married in Connecticut last year. But they live in Lexington, Kentucky (where they were photographed February 24, 2012), where their marriage isn't recognized. On the advice of an attorney, Nehrebeczky (pictured) won't attempt to travel to Hungary to see her mother, who has cancer. She fears her student visa might not be renewed. (Mark Cornelison/Lexington Herald-Leader/MCT)
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Tens of thousands of same-sex couples in the United States live under the threat of separation because federal law prohibits immigration authorities from treating them the same as married opposite-sex couples. Joy Hayes, right, and Lujza Nehrebeczky were married in Connecticut last year. But they live in Lexington, Kentucky (where they were photographed February 24, 2012), where their marriage isn't recognized. On the advice of an attorney, Nehrebeczky won't attempt to travel to Hungary to see her mother, who has cancer. She fears her student visa might not be renewed. (Mark Cornelison/Lexington Herald-Leader/MCT)
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Anton Tanumihardja (left) and Brian Andersen (right) kissing after their wedding in Lafayette Park across from the White House in Washington D.C. on June 12, 2011. The Federal Government does not recognize their marriage and Anton could be deported to his native Indonesia at any time. (Photo courtesy of the couple/MCT)
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